Ballynakelly & Rathcreedon, Newcastle, Co. Dublin

What’s proposed

Revisions to granted planning permission Reg. Ref. SD06A/0659 (as extended by Reg. Ref. SD06A/0659/EP for a 255 bedroom hotel in a new landmark building consisting of sub-basement and basement, ground floor and five upper floors (with a total hotel development gross floor space of approximately 28,476sq.m.); 680 underground car parking spaces; 5 coach spaces; 50 bicycle spaces; a new 9m wide vehicular, cycleway and pedestrian access approximately 900m in length from a new roundabout on the Newcastle Road (R120) in vicinity of Newcastle Manor housing estate; fire tender access road and site development and landscaping works; revisions to the permitted hotel development (which is partially constructed) will comprise construction of a retirement village in the permitted hotel grounds which will consist of: 69 individual 3 bedroom single storey retirement homes, ranging in size from 112sq.m. to 164.1sq.m; a single storey medical/health centre (146.7sq.m); a two storey community services centre (844.3sq.m); an outdoor recreation and allotment area with an associated recreation equipment store (245sq.m.) and allotment equipment store (22.8sq.m.); a nursing home/care centre to be located within the permitted hotel building necessitating a change of use of part of the hotel's accommodation block (1,653.7sq.m. at ground floor and 2,351.5sq.m. at first floor) from hotel use (comprising 92 hotel bedrooms in total) to nursing home/care centre use (comprising 60 nursing home/care centre bedrooms with associated dining, healthcare and administration facilities) as well as change of use of 302sq.m. at basement level car parking to nursing home/care centre mortuary, deliveries store and clinical waste store and all associated works, including the provision of a new entrance; new 6.4sq.m. porch and a reception area for the nursing home/care centre; new vehicular lay-by and enclosed outdoor areas for nursing home residents (the gross floor space of the hotel incorporating the nursing home/care centre will now be approximately 29,562sq.m.); and site development and landscaping works including revised site levels to facilitate surface drainage, boundary planting including reinstatement of hedgerows; 2.2m to 2.5m high fencing and automatic gates surrounding the retirement homes; a new 2.5m block wall inside the northern boundary of the site and the relocation of 11 car parking spaces at the eastern side of the access road into the development site (serving the adjacent development to the north, Reg. Ref. SD05A/0344) to the western side of the access road. The proposed revised development will have 666 underground car parking spaces, 204 surface car spaces, 5 surface coach spaces, 1 surface ambulance space and 50 bicycle spaces