Demolition of the existing two-storey public house known as 'The Estuary'

Proposed development

Demolition of the existing two-storey public house known as 'The Estuary'; The construction of a part four-, part five-storey flat-roofed mixed-use building, comprising 39 no. apartments (25 no. 1-bed and 14 no. 2-bed units) arranged over ground to fourth floor levels, with the fourth floor set back from Balheary Road and North Street; Provision of 1 no. ground-floor commercial/retail unit fronting Balheary Road; All apartments will have direct access to an area of private amenity space in the form of a balcony/terrace and will have shared access to communal amenity space including a landscaped ground-level courtyard and a roof-level communal amenity garden; Provision of 94 no. secure bicycle spaces and 8 no. cargo bike spaces within an internal store, and 20 no. visitor bicycle spaces proposed within the courtyard at ground floor level; Provision of refuse storage, plant rooms and ESB substation at ground floor level; All ancillary works including landscaping, boundary treatments, SuDS drainage (including blue green roofs), and all associated site services, site infrastructure and associated site development works necessary to facilitate the development.

Planning status

Permission was refused on appeal by An Coimisiún Pleanála on 3 Jul 2026. That decision replaces the council's; a new application would be needed.

Appeal PL-500881-DF-26 on the An Coimisiún Pleanála website ↗

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