‘Disappointed’ Johnny Ronan firm to appeal against council’s rejection of 17-storey scheme for Dublin’s Docklands

In February, Mr Ronan’s Ronan Group Actual Property (RGRE) lodged plans for the redevelopment of worldwide banking big Citigroup’s present European headquarters at 1 North Wall Quay in Dublin’s Docklands.

The scheme entails the demolition of Citigroup’s present six-storey workplace constructing and the event of 4 buildings as an alternative ranging in peak from 9 storeys to 17 storeys.

RGRE agency NWQ Devco Restricted is searching for a 10-year planning permission however the metropolis council has refused planning permission on a variety of grounds.

A spokesman for RGRE has confirmed that the group is to attraction in opposition to the refusal to An Bord Pleanála.

He mentioned that RGRE “is upset with the choice of Dublin Metropolis Council”.

“There’s a sturdy view in Irish planning and building communities, and among the many wider public, that there was a missed alternative over the previous decade for elevated heights and densities alongside Dublin’s north and south Docklands, the place the River Liffey is at its widest level and good transport infrastructure is in place,” he mentioned.

“With the pipeline of brownfield websites within the Docklands now nearly exhausted, few alternatives stay for the development of taller, extra sustainable buildings in a location that’s clearly applicable.”

The council dominated that the proposed improvement, because of its peak and extreme bulk and scale, “would represent an insensitive type of improvement adjoining to present residential improvement”.

The planning authority acknowledged that the proposal would outcome “in a big and unacceptable lack of daylight/daylight and resultant overshadowing to those properties and amenity areas, adversely impacting their residential amenity”.

The council mentioned the proposed improvement “would due to this fact set an undesirable precedent and would devalue properties within the neighborhood”.

The planning authority additionally dominated that the proposed improvement “would represent an excessively dominant type inflicting critical harm to the visible facilities” of the Liffey Quays – a conservation space.

The council additionally concluded that the proposed improvement contravened numerous insurance policies of the Dublin Metropolis Growth Plan, adversely impacting key views and vistas alongside the river hall and the facilities of properties within the neighborhood.

In another excuse for refusal, the council mentioned that within the absence of a complete justification for demolition of the prevailing constructing the place not all choices have been investigated, “the proposed wholescale demolition could be thought-about untimely”.

The council mentioned the deliberate demolition could be opposite to the event plan, which seeks to advertise and assist the retrofitting and reuse of present buildings.

On the finish of a 38-page planner’s report, the council mentioned the proposed improvement “would set an undesirable precedent for wholescale demolition on related websites throughout the town”.