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Dublin City Council · WEB2808/25

Lidl Drumcondra Store, 25/27, Drumcondra Road Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

  1. 1 Aug 2025Received
  2. 25 Sept 2025Refuse retention permission
  3. 14 Oct 2025Appealed
  4. 5 Feb 2026Appeal: Granted
  5. 5 Feb 2026Final grant
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Status
Appeal decided — granted
Decision
Refuse retention permission · 25 Sept 2025
Council
Dublin City Council
Type
Retention Permission
Site
2,677 m²
Appeal
ACP 500068 · Granted

What’s proposed

RETENTION: We, Phoenix Tower Ireland III Limited are applying for Retention Permission to retain 17 no. antennas (3 no. 2.1m antennas, 6 no. 2m Antenna, 5 no. 0.5m Antenna, & 3 no. 0.7m Antenna) and 2 no. 0.3m transmission dishes on separate ballast mounted supporting poles together with 3 no. equipment cabinets, radio equipment, cabling and associated site works all located on the rooftop Lidl Drumcondra Store, 25/27 Drumcondra Road Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin 9

WEB2808/25 is a planning application to Dublin City Council for rETENTION: We, Phoenix Tower Ireland III Limited are applying for Retention Permission, received on 1 Aug 2025; permission was refused on 25 Sept 2025.

Planning details

Reference
WEB2808/25
Local authority
Dublin City Council
Status
Appeal decided — granted · register status “Appeal Decided
Received
1 Aug 2025
Observations close
5 Sept 2025 (closed 374 days ago)
Decision due
25 Sept 2025 · decided 25 Sept 2025
Decision
Refuse retention permission on 25 Sept 2025
Proposed development
RETENTION: We, Phoenix Tower Ireland III Limited are applying for Retention Permission to retain 17 no. antennas (3 no. 2.1m antennas, 6 no. 2m Antenna, 5 no. 0.5m Antenna, & 3 no. 0.7m Antenna) and 2 no. 0.3m transmission dishes on separate ballast mounted supporting poles together with 3 no. equipment cabinets, radio equipment, cabling and associated site works all located on the rooftop Lidl Drumcondra Store, 25/27 Drumcondra Road Upper, Drumcondra, Dublin 9
As published by the register.
Site area
2,677 m² from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
Applicant
Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name

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Appeal

ACP 500068 · Planning Appeal · decided · Granted 5 Feb 2026
received by the Commission 14 Oct 2025 · inspector's report · board order

Commencement

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    Zoning at the site

    Zone Z4 - 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.

    S5 — Sustainable neighbourhood infrastructure

    Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure: To protect and provide for community uses and social infrastructure.

    Reserved for the schools, creches, community and health facilities a neighbourhood needs.

    Designations within 250 m

    No OPW flood extent nearby.

    • NIAH-recorded building · 13
      Ivy House/Patrick Carthy & Sons Public Bar; post box; Church of St. John the Baptist
    • Radon risk area · 1
      About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
    • Recorded monument · 5
      House - 16th/17th century; Church; Graveyard

    Provenance

    Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 86746). 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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