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Dublin City Council · WEB2187/25 · Retention Permission

Swan Shopping Centre, Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6

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Council received 28 May 2025We first saw it 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (472 days after receipt — sources refresh weekly)
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WEB2187/25 is a planning application for retention permission at Swan Shopping Centre, Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6, received by Dublin City Council on 28 May 2025 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: RETENTION PERMISSION: Retail kiosk, Unit 53, area circa 15.9 sqm, by the staircase near the Southern entrance to Swan Shopping Centre on Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6. The council declared the application invalid on 30 May 2025. The five-week observation window closed on 2 Jul 2025. The site is zoned null under the Dublin City Council development plan. Within 500 m there are 132 other decided applications in the last five years and 20 appeals.

Observations close 2 Jul 2025 closed 437 days ago
5 weeks from receipt (28 May 2025) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · €20 to the council
Site report

Proposal

RETENTION PERMISSION: Retail kiosk, Unit 53, area circa 15.9 sqm, by the staircase near the Southern entrance to Swan Shopping Centre on Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6

Status
Decision Notice Issued
Decision
Application declared invalid on 30 May 2025
Site (from polygon)
195 m²
Location precision
site (coords_polygon)

Timeline

  • 28 May 2025
    New application
    Observation window closed 2 Jul 2025
  • 30 May 2025
    Decision
    Appeal window closed 27 Jun 2025

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    Zoning at the site

    Zone Z1 - DEV PLAN 2022-2028

    M3 — Neighbourhood centre

    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.

    R2 — Existing residential

    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

    No OPW flood extent nearby.

    • NIAH-recorded building · 45
      house; house; house
    • Radon risk area · 1
      About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
    • Recorded monument · 13
      School; Building; Park

    Provenance

    Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 64311). 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.

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