Observation pack · Dublin City Council

21 Camden Row, Dublin 8, D08 KD60

CHANGE OF USE: Development will consist of internal walls changed to the existing creche. Then changing of use from creche to a habitable 3No. bed dwelling. The front elevation facade will change to brick to match existing dwellings nearby and all ancillary works

Observations close 2 Dec 2026 18 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 28 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20

The application

Reference: 5243/26 · full record
Authority: Dublin City Council
Type: Permission
Status: Registered Application
Received: 28 Oct 2026

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at https://planning.agileapplications.ie/dublincity/application-details/?ref=5243%2F26.
Write your observation.Quote 5243/26 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Dublin City Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 2 Dec 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Dublin City Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

Designations on or near the site within 100 m

NIAH-recorded building × 13
St. Kevin's Church · Whelan's · Camden DeLuxe Hotel
Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
Recorded monument × 6
Church · Ritual site - holy well · House - indeterminate date

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
WEB3257/26	Grant permission	5 Nov 2026	320 m	We, Gartan Heights UC, intend to apply for planning permission for development at Block 8, Harcourt Centre, Charlotte Way, Dublin 2. The proposed development will consist of the following: • Erection of new wall mounted, illuminated signage above the entrance doorway facing Charlotte Way (0.6m x 4.6m in size); and • All associated works to facilitate the development.
WEB3206/26	Refuse permission	29 Oct 2026	170 m	Permission for single storey lean-to extension (11.6 sq m) in Camden Villas to rear of No. 9 Camden Buildings containing boiler house and internal water tanks for use as part of an existing guest house / hostel currently leased to Dublin City Council for use as Emergency Accommodation at Nos. 6-9 Camden Place, No. 16 Camden Street and Nos. 2 - 6 Camden Villas, Camden Street, Dublin 2.
WEB3180/26	Grant permission	28 Oct 2026	72 m	CHANGE OF USE: The proposed development will consist of the change of use (from betting office) to use as delicatessen and retail food emporium for the sale of freshly produced products and hot food for consumption off the premises. The proposed development also includes signage comprising of (i) a non-illuminated 400mm diameter projecting sign and (ii) fascia signage to both East and West elevations with backlit 300mm high individual lettering (iii) unlit logo signage over door.
WEB3168/26	Grant retention permission	27 Oct 2026	72 m	RETENTION : We, De German Doner Ltd, intend to apply for retention permission for development at this site, no. 8/9 Wexford Street, Dublin 2. The development will consist of revision to the granted plan layout due to conditions found on opening up of planning reference No. 4882/22 & web5166/25 at ground floor level only of this restaurant and part takeaway. This includes alteration to position of the kitchen, service counter and accessible toilet to rear of the premises and adjustment to restaurant seating layout reducing seating numbers and reuse of existing entrance.
WEB3160/26	Grant retention permission	22 Oct 2026	259 m	PROTECTED STRUCTURE: RETENTION : Retention works comprise the installation of an external door at the lower ground floor. Permission works comprise works to the front garden including: relocation of a new 94cm high retaining wall to extend the lower ground floor patio area, construction of a new 94cm high wall along the boundary with number 18 Heytesbury Steet, new path from street level to the lower ground floor patio, new step and path arrangement, widening of the existing wrought iron gate access to the garden to 1m wide, hard landscaping works including new paving and decorative gravel finishes. Soft landscaping works & all associate surface water connections.
WEB3156/26	Refuse permission	21 Oct 2026	212 m	PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for development of the existing Georgian four-storey plus basement townhouse, consisting of change of use of lower ground floor and ground floor (partial change of use) from vacant restaurant use to residential use (3 apartment units – 1no. 76.23m2 1-bed unit and 2no. 72.20m2 & 52.26m2 Studio units), including modification of internal layout, replacement of existing front door, side lights and fanlight, with new hardwood front door and side lights to match existing and new fanlight to match original, replacement of existing lower ground floor external door to the front with new hardwood sash window to match existing, fire-rated glazing to existing lower ground floor window to the front, new fenestration to rear of lower ground floor and repair of the existing cast iron railings at the front, including all associated and ancillary site works.
5223/26	Application declared invalid	16 Oct 2026	0 m	Development will consist of internal walls changed to the existing creche. Then changing of use from creche to a habitable 3No. bed dwelling. The front elevation façade will change to brick to match existing dwellings nearby and all ancillary works. No new works to No.21 Camden Row will affect protected structures nearby.
WEB3056/26	Grant permission	13 Oct 2026	445 m	Ground floor extension, first floor rear dormer extension and first floor extension with bedroom and shower room with two frosted glass windows. Two new rooflights to the front elevation with a continuation of the main roof at ridge level.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
324500	Fire Safety Certificate - Revised	pending	5 Aug 2026	101 m
501048	Planning Appeal	Granted with conditions	14 Jul 2026	456 m
500719	Planning Appeal	Granted	19 Jun 2026	201 m
500856	Planning Appeal	Granted	17 Jun 2026	368 m
500525	Planning Appeal	Refused	16 Jun 2026	159 m
324111	Licences S89/S254(6)(A)	Granted with conditions	10 Jun 2026	59 m
324110	Licences S89/S254(6)(A)	Granted with conditions	10 Jun 2026	78 m
500649	Planning Appeal	Granted	21 May 2026	43 m

If neighbours here have appealed before and lost, the inspector's report on that case is the single most useful thing to read.

What has happened on this file

28 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 2 Dec 2026

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