236 - 238 Harold's Cross Road, Dublin D6WRF44
- 26 Jan 2026Received
- 20 Mar 2026Refuse permission
- 15 Apr 2026Appealed
- 21 Aug 2026Appeal: Refused
- Status
- Appeal decided — refused
- Decision
- Refuse permission · 20 Mar 2026
- Council
- Dublin City Council
- Type
- Permission
- Site
- 754 m²
- Appeal
- ACP 501171 · Refused
What’s proposed
Hermitage Property Group intends to apply for planning permission at 236 - 238 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin D6W RF44. The development will consist of (i) the demolition of the existing Lyster’s Bar, (ii) the construction of a 5-storey new building comprising 40-bed student accommodation with ground floor commercial space, (iii) two external rear bin stores, (iv) external rear bicycle storage for 12 cycles, (v) internal basement cycle store for 40 cycles plus 12 foldable cycles, (vi) hard and soft external rear landscaping, (vii) fourth floor 74 square metre roof terrace, (viii) front and rear facing windows at all levels, (ix) side facing windows at ground to fourth floor of extended rear leg (x) solar panels at roof level, and all associated site works. The site is accessed via Harold's Cross Road and Mountain View Avenue. The development site is attached to buildings south and north facing Harold's Cross road, and north on Mountain View .Avenue
WEB1156/26 is a planning application to Dublin City Council for hermitage Property Group intends to apply for planning permission at 236 - 238 Harold’s, received on 26 Jan 2026; permission was refused on 20 Mar 2026.
Planning details
- Reference
- WEB1156/26
- Local authority
- Dublin City Council
- Status
- Appeal decided — refused · register status “Decision Appealed”
- Received
- 26 Jan 2026
- Observations close
- 2 Mar 2026 (closed 196 days ago)
- Decision due
- 20 Mar 2026 · decided 20 Mar 2026
- Decision
- Refuse permission on 20 Mar 2026
- Proposed development
- Hermitage Property Group intends to apply for planning permission at 236 - 238 Harold’s Cross Road, Dublin D6W RF44. The development will consist of (i) the demolition of the existing Lyster’s Bar, (ii) the construction of a 5-storey new building comprising 40-bed student accommodation with ground floor commercial space, (iii) two external rear bin stores, (iv) external rear bicycle storage for 12 cycles, (v) internal basement cycle store for 40 cycles plus 12 foldable cycles, (vi) hard and soft external rear landscaping, (vii) fourth floor 74 square metre roof terrace, (viii) front and rear facing windows at all levels, (ix) side facing windows at ground to fourth floor of extended rear leg (x) solar panels at roof level, and all associated site works. The site is accessed via Harold's Cross Road and Mountain View Avenue. The development site is attached to buildings south and north facing Harold's Cross road, and north on Mountain View .AvenueAs published by the register.
- Site area
- 754 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name
Full planning report for 53.32167, -6.27979
Zoning, appeals, sold prices, flood and heritage constraints — everything for this area in one PDF.
No account, no payment. Not a statutory planning search.
Appeal
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
Zone Z4 - DEV PLAN 2022-2028
Z4: Key Urban Villages/Urban Villages: To provide for and improve mixed-services facilities.
A local centre: shops, services and apartments over them, serving the surrounding housing.
Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities.
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.
Designations within 250 m
OPW flood extent nearby — flag only (licence); floodinfo.ie.
- Radon risk area · 1
- Recorded monument · 2
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 84065). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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