Dublin City Council has rejected planning permission for a new 111-bedroom hotel and a 42-bed hotel extension.
Fáilte Ireland endorsed the scheme, stating it would address tourism accommodation shortages.
Appalachian Property Holdings’ plans for a hotel at St Andrew’s Street was refused for reasons cited by the council that included the housing crisis and a focus on residential development in the city.
Lizzie Donnelly of Tom Phillips + Associates, said the scheme “has been designed sensitively and will not give rise to unacceptable impacts upon the surrounding context”.
The council also refused planning permission for a hotel extension in Temple Bar, designed to grow the Paramount Hotel on Parliament Street from a 66 bedroom hotel to a 108 bedroom hotel.
The council ruled that the extension would be an overdevelopment, failing to integrate with existing and surrounding development and affecting protected structures.
