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Dublin City Council · WEB5130/25 · Retention Permission

Dublin Simon Community, 12-14 Carman's Hall, Dublin 8, D08 KX89

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Council received 12 Sept 2025We first saw it 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (365 days after receipt — sources refresh weekly)
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WEB5130/25 is a planning application for retention permission at Dublin Simon Community, 12-14 Carman's Hall, Dublin 8, D08 KX89, received by Dublin City Council on 12 Sept 2025 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: RETENTION: PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Dublin Simon Community is applying for retention permission for development consisting of: The change of use of the two storey (with third level stair shaft access to paved roof) building from parish centre (originally built as a school, Saint Nicholas of Myra National School) to a hostel for the provision of short term emergency accommodation for homeless persons and associated alterations to the internal layout to provide 20 bedrooms accommodating 51 people, sanitary facilities, dining area, kitchen, offices, counselling rooms, a fire escape stairs, additional doors to the existing courtyard, conversion of the outbuilding to a laundry and plant room, external water storage tanks and associated external works including the provision of ramps to existing and additional access doors to the courtyard, at the former Parish Centre, 12-14 Carman’s Hall, Dublin 8, which is a PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS 8822 (Former Saint Nicholas of Myra National School). The council granted permission on 6 Nov 2025 (retention). The five-week observation window closed on 17 Oct 2025. The site is zoned null under the Dublin City Council development plan. Within 500 m there are 170 other decided applications in the last five years and 34 appeals.

Appeal window closes 4 Dec 2025 closed 282 days ago
4 weeks from the council's decision (6 Nov 2025) · s.37 Planning and Development Act 2000 · €220 to An Coimisiún Pleanála (€110 observer)
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Proposal

RETENTION: PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Dublin Simon Community is applying for retention permission for development consisting of: The change of use of the two storey (with third level stair shaft access to paved roof) building from parish centre (originally built as a school, Saint Nicholas of Myra National School) to a hostel for the provision of short term emergency accommodation for homeless persons and associated alterations to the internal layout to provide 20 bedrooms accommodating 51 people, sanitary facilities, dining area, kitchen, offices, counselling rooms, a fire escape stairs, additional doors to the existing courtyard, conversion of the outbuilding to a laundry and plant room, external water storage tanks and associated external works including the provision of ramps to existing and additional access doors to the courtyard, at the former Parish Centre, 12-14 Carman’s Hall, Dublin 8, which is a PROTECTED STRUCTURE, RPS 8822 (Former Saint Nicholas of Myra National School).

Status
Decision Notice Issued
Decision
Grant retention permission on 6 Nov 2025
Final grant
11 Dec 2025
Site (from polygon)
749 m²
Location precision
site (coords_polygon)

Timeline

  • 12 Sept 2025
    New application
    Observation window closed 17 Oct 2025
  • 6 Nov 2025
    Decision
    Appeal window closed 4 Dec 2025

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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.

    Designations within 250 m

    OPW flood extent nearby — flag only (licence); floodinfo.ie.

    • NIAH-recorded building · 58
      An Taisce; An Taisce; Mother Redcap's Tavern
    • Radon risk area · 1
      About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
    • Recorded monument · 72
      Mural tower (Historic Town); Mural tower (Historic Town); Mural tower (Historic Town)

    Provenance

    Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 84104). 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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