An Coimisiún Pleanála refused permission for a 113-bedroom hotel at 15-16 Baggot Street Lower in Dublin 2.
The six-storey scheme deemed overbearing on a protected structure and injurious to the area’s architectural character. The decision upholds Dublin City Council’s earlier refusal, appealed by Eamon Waters’s Sretaw Hotel Group through Peachbeach UC.
The proposal found incongruous with Baggot Street Lower’s streetscape and visually detrimental to the adjoining conservation area.
John Gannon shared “we fundamentally disagree with the planning authority’s reason for refusal and are of the opinion that the proposal has been sensitively designed and will not give rise to unacceptable impacts on the surrounding context. The scheme sought to deliver a high-quality, mixed-use development on a site in the heart of Dublin city centre. It is an ideal location for the proposed hotel given its proximity to the proximate numerous tourist attractions, activities and events located within 1km of the site. Peachbeach UC has addressed concerns around overlooking into the neighbouring site ‘and we wholly disagree that the proposal would set an undesirable precedent in the area’.”
