Bonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
Refused in 2023.
- 18 Jul 2023Received
- 11 Sept 2023Refuse permission
- Status
- Refused
- Decision
- Refuse permission · 11 Sept 2023
- Council
- Dublin City Council
- Type
- Permission
- Site
- 1.41 ha
What’s proposed
The development consists of permission was granted on 12th February 2019 by An Bord Pleanala (Reg. Ref. 3353/18 and ABP-302507), for a period of 2 years to operate the conference centre at the hotel subject to conditions relating to (a) the use and opening hours of the conference centre, (b) the noise level not to be exceeded from the conference centre. Condition three of the permission required the operation of the conference centre to be reviewed before February 2021. That permission has now expired. An application was submitted (Reg. Ref. 3529/20) before that date but was subsequently considered withdrawn by the Planning Authority. This application seeks to relodge that application and permission is now sought to continue to operate the centre subject to the remaining conditions in the permission applying to the centre and without the need to repeatedly apply every 2 years
Planning details
- Reference
- 4172/23
- Local authority
- Dublin City Council
- Status
- Refused · register status “Decision Notice Issued”
- Received
- 18 Jul 2023
- Observations close
- 22 Aug 2023 (closed 1141 days ago)
- Decision due
- 11 Sept 2023 · decided 11 Sept 2023
- Decision
- Refuse permission on 11 Sept 2023
- Proposed development
- The development consists of permission was granted on 12th February 2019 by An Bord Pleanala (Reg. Ref. 3353/18 and ABP-302507), for a period of 2 years to operate the conference centre at the hotel subject to conditions relating to (a) the use and opening hours of the conference centre, (b) the noise level not to be exceeded from the conference centre. Condition three of the permission required the operation of the conference centre to be reviewed before February 2021. That permission has now expired. An application was submitted (Reg. Ref. 3529/20) before that date but was subsequently considered withdrawn by the Planning Authority. This application seeks to relodge that application and permission is now sought to continue to operate the centre subject to the remaining conditions in the permission applying to the centre and without the need to repeatedly apply every 2 yearsAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 1.41 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name
Nearby 93 · 500 m · 5 years
- Withdrawn14, Drumcondra Road Upper, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn174, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 C1W1
- OpenLand to the side/north of No. 38 Hampton Grace Park Road Dublin 9
- Granted14 Iveleary Rd, Whitehall, Dublin 9, D09RF10
- Withdrawn14, Iveleary Rd, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Appeal decided149, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09Y7F9
- Withdrawn14, Iveleary Road, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn149 Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09Y7F9
Show all 93
- Commenced25, Walnut Court, Courtlands, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn25 Walnut Court, Courtlands, Dublin 9, D09 E7N5
- CommencedLands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Granted15, Walnut Park, Courtlands, Dublin 9, D09 N9R0
- Withdrawn15, Walnut Park, Courtlands, Dublin 9
- Refused1 Calderwood Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 F6P3
- Granted12 Walnut Park, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 W6T7
- Commenced6 Sherkin Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn12 Walnut Park, Courtlands, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09W6T7
- GrantedOn lands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, (PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF. 3238), Hampto
- WithdrawnLands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- GrantedBroomfield House, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Granted17, Calderwood Avenue, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn17, Calderwood Avenue, Dublin 9
- CommencedLands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Granted130, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Granted54, Calderwood Road, Dublin 9, D09 V1H9
- Granted22 Calderwood Avenue, Dublin 9, D09 P7X6
- Granted106, Walnut Rise, Courtlands, Dublin 9
- Appeal decidedBonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Granted12 Sherkin Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- GrantedOn lands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation (PROTECTED STRUCTURE REF. 3238),Hampton, Grace Park Road and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Granted56 Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 V4K6
- Commenced1, Sherkin Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 K2E9
- Granted15, The Village, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- CommencedDerryshall, 1a, Calderwood Grove, Dublin 9
- Commenced159, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 W5P2
- Commenced64 Walnut Rise, Courtlands, Dublin 9, D09 Y6E5
- Withdrawn159, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 K6P0
- Withdrawn15 The Village, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09H5P9
- Granted47, Griffith Downs, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn47, Griffith Downs, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn47 Griffith Downs, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Commenced12, Sherkin Gardens, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn169, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn47, Griffith Downs, Dublin 9
- Commenced169, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn169, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 E5V9
- Granted218, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn47, Griffith Downs, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 X4E9
- Withdrawn169, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9
- Commenced260, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09H7X6
- CommencedThe Bonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Dublin 9
- WithdrawnBonnington (formerly The Regency) Hotel on Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Commenced112, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 D09 H2F9
- Withdrawn112, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 D09 H2F9
- Granted1, Wellpark Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 N2W8
- WithdrawnThe Bonnington Hotel Swords Road, Dublin 9
- WithdrawnBonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Granted151, Iveragh Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9 D09 VK85
- Withdrawn151, Iveragh Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9 D09 VK85
- CommencedDominican Convent, 204 Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9
- GrantedDerryshall, 1A Calderwood Grove, Dublin 9, D09 T277
- Withdrawn1A, Calderwood Grove, Dublin 9 D09 T277
- Granted4, Iveleary Road, Gaeltacht Park, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Refused1 Calderwood Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 F6P3
- Withdrawn4, Iveleary Road, Gaeltacht Park, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Appeal decidedLands at the Former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road, and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Granted1, The Crescent, Griffith Downs, Dublin 9, D09 R3P1
- Commenced13, Wellpark Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn13, Wellpark Avenue, Dublin 9 D09 Y2W1
- Withdrawn4 Iveleary Road, Gaeltacht Park, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Granted6, Calderwood Avenue, Dublin 9, D09 T6T3
- RefusedPlot adj. to 190, Iveragh Road, Dublin 9 D09 RK76
- WithdrawnPlot adj. 190, Iveragh Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9 D09 RK76
- Appeal decided215, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Commenced212, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Commenced235, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, D09 Y1X9
- WithdrawnPlot adj. 190, Iveragh Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9 D09 RK76
- CommencedLands at the former Carmelite Covent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9,
- WithdrawnLands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Commenced177, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9 (D09 T3C6)
- Commenced24, Grace Park Heights, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn177, Griffith Avenue, Glasnevin, Dublin 9
- CommencedLands at the former Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation, Hampton, Grace Park Road and Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
- CommencedArd Mhuire, 14, Iveragh Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Commenced45, Walnut Rise, Dublin 9
- CommencedClonturk College, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Withdrawn45, Walnut Rise, Dublin 9
- WithdrawnClonturk Community College, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- WithdrawnClonturk College, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- WithdrawnThe Bonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Commenced219, Griffith Avenue, Whitehall, Dublin 9, D09 N6X9
- WithdrawnBonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Whitehall, Dublin 9
- Appeal decided4, Beresford Lawn, Griffith Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin, 9. D09 P2N7
Homes nearby
- For sale49 Seven Oaks, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 Y0T9
- For sale21 The Crescent, Griffith Downs, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 Y5Y8
- For saleApartment 504, Block 2, Gracepark Manor, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 HC52
- For sale212 Grace Park Manor, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 X065
- For saleApartment 416, Block 3, Gracepark Manor, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 KN50
- For sale124 Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 X4W0
- For sale38 Hampton, Grace Park Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 E1TW
- For sale16 Sion Hill Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 C3H3
- For sale68 Calderwood Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 C3H7
- For sale43 Walnut Rise, Courtlands, Griffith Avenue, Dublin 9, D09 W8K7
- For sale4 Calderwood Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 X9T1
- For sale22 Calderwood Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, D09 X0Y1
Development land nearby
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- Permitted, not started · 59 homes granted 14 Apr 2025, expires 14 Apr 2030 — Swords Road, Whitehall (0.7 km)
- Permission expired · 1240 homes granted 18 Dec 2019, expires 18 Dec 2024 — Dublin City University (0.9 km)
- Council selling land — 84 Drumcondra Road Upper (0.4 km)
- Residential land off The Crescent, Griffith Downs, Dublin 9 (0.0 km)
- Public land off Bonnington Hotel, Swords Road, Dublin 9 (0.1 km)
Zoning
Zone Z9 - DEV PLAN 2022-2028
An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.
Protections nearby 250 m
No mapped flood area nearby.
- NIAH-recorded building · 7
- Radon risk area · 1
Where this comes from
National planning feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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Summary
4172/23 is a planning application to Dublin City Council for the development consists of permission was granted on 12th February 2019 by An Bord, received on 18 Jul 2023; permission was refused on 11 Sept 2023.