Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, 78 Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4
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WEB1649/25 is a planning application for permission at Gurdwara Guru Nanak Darbar, 78 Serpentine Avenue, Dublin 4, received by Dublin City Council on 26 Mar 2025 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: Permission for development to existing 2 storey temple of 921.07m2 consisting of internal remodelling and extension to existing ground floor to cater for food hall and reconfigured kitchen with new ancillary changing facilities, toilets and vertical circulation with lift with new entrance lobby with revised and partially extended first floor accommodation to facilitate relocated Prayer Hall with remodelled and extended central roof section with removal of all external asbestos finishes and ductwork with ancillary short term guest accommodation and offices with new partial 2nd floor community room to rear and new plant room of 44.67m2 increasing the total area to 1246.12m2 with a new 2 storey front extension with a Gurdwara Sahib Dome and steeple in gold finish at roof level with remodelled landscaped forecourt to cater for pedestrian access with relocated flag post and 1 no. accessible car parking space and 4 no. bicycle spaces with a new driveway entrance and associated site works. The council granted permission on 16 Oct 2025. The five-week observation window closed on 30 Apr 2025. An Coimisiún Pleanála decided appeal 500250 on 23 Mar 2026 (refuse). The site is zoned null under the Dublin City Council development plan. Within 500 m there are 126 other decided applications in the last five years and 44 appeals.
Proposal
Permission for development to existing 2 storey temple of 921.07m2 consisting of internal remodelling and extension to existing ground floor to cater for food hall and reconfigured kitchen with new ancillary changing facilities, toilets and vertical circulation with lift with new entrance lobby with revised and partially extended first floor accommodation to facilitate relocated Prayer Hall with remodelled and extended central roof section with removal of all external asbestos finishes and ductwork with ancillary short term guest accommodation and offices with new partial 2nd floor community room to rear and new plant room of 44.67m2 increasing the total area to 1246.12m2 with a new 2 storey front extension with a Gurdwara Sahib Dome and steeple in gold finish at roof level with remodelled landscaped forecourt to cater for pedestrian access with relocated flag post and 1 no. accessible car parking space and 4 no. bicycle spaces with a new driveway entrance and associated site works.
- Status
- Appeal Decided
- Decision
- Grant permission on 16 Oct 2025
- Site (from polygon)
- 744 m²
- Location precision
- site (coords_polygon)
Timeline
- 26 Mar 2025New applicationObservation window closed 30 Apr 2025
- 11 Sept 2025Further information requested
- 23 Sept 2025Further information received
- 16 Oct 2025DecisionAppeal window closed 13 Nov 2025
- 13 Nov 2025Appeal lodged
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Appeal
Commencement
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Zoning at the site
Zone Z1 - DEV PLAN 2022-2028
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 · 1
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 84070). 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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