Observation pack · Dublin City Council

60 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, D02 NH93

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The erection of a demountable enclosed rear porch of the protected structure at 60 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, D02 NH93.

Observations close 16 Nov 2026 11 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 12 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20

The application

Reference: WEB3508/26 · full record
Authority: Dublin City Council
Type: Permission
Status: Decision Notice Issued
Applicant: Merrion Fertility Clinic Company Ltd. By Guarantee
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: —
Received: 12 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 28 Oct 2026, 23:03
Decision due: —
Decision: Application declared invalid

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.No register URL is recorded for this reference; search the Dublin City Council planning register for WEB3508/26.
Write your observation.Quote WEB3508/26 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 16 Nov 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.

What the site is zoned

No current zoning polygon covers this site in the store.

Designations on or near the site

NIAH-recorded building × 7
house · house · Irish Institute of Purchasing and Materials Manage
Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
Recorded monument × 1
R149533

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
WEB3565/26	Application declared invalid	20 Oct 2026	—	437 m	The development will consist of the proposed addition of a new floor (an area of 752m2) of hotel accommodation for 16 new bedrooms, bringing the new hotel extension to 8 levels over ground floor, to the previously approved Planning Application Reg. Ref. 4018/24 for the construction of a new hotel extension building. ______________________________________________________________________________
WEB3059/26	Grant permission	13 Oct 2026	—	153 m	Permission was granted on site for a 6-storey apartment building comprising 15 apartments (5 no. studios, 6 no. one beds, 4 no. two beds. Three of two bed units are 2 storey maisonettes with own door access) and associated works under ABP-314226-22 & 3932/22. Permission is sought to make alterations to the approved development and change 2 no. of the permitted 2 storey maisonettes to 4 no. studios comprising 2 no. studios on ground floor with own door access to the street and 2 no. studios on the first floor. All 4 no. proposed studios have terraces or balconies. Minor alterations are required to internal layout and all associated works. The proposal increases total apartments from 15 to 17 (9 no. studios, 6 no. one beds, 2 no. 2 beds).
WEB2978/26	Grant permission	2 Oct 2026	—	363 m	Erection of an illuminated corporate sign measuring 9.9m wide x 1.5m high at ninth floor level on the northern elevation of No. 2 Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.
WEB2929/26	Refuse permission	25 Sept 2026	—	242 m	Change of Use of 4 no. Apartments from Residential to Student Accommodation Use.
WEB3248/26	Application declared invalid	14 Sept 2026	—	186 m	We, Google Ireland (Limited), intend to apply for permission for development at this site at The Treasury Building and Treasury Annex, Grand Canal Street Lower and Macken Street, Dublin 2. The development will consist of the construction of a single storey external bicycle store (57 no. spaces) adjacent to the northern elevation to facilitate the relocation of permitted bicycle storage at basement level of the Treasury Annex, with bin storage and minor reconfiguration to changing facilities provided at basement level. The number of permitted bicycle parking spaces (313 no.) under Reg. Ref.: 2860/21 (as amended) and Reg. Ref.: 3965/20 (as amended) remains unchanged.
WEB2964/26	Application declared invalid	12 Aug 2026	—	363 m	Erection of an illuminated corporate sign measuring 9.9m wide x 1.5m high at ninth floor level on the northern elevation of No. 2 Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2.
WEB2321/26	Grant permission	23 Jul 2026	—	370 m	PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The fitting of Solar panels to the front, rear and valley and hip slopes of the main double pitched roof and valley of the two-storey and single-storey Returns; the following works to the front façade: cleaning the render, cleaning the granite steps, string course and coping stones and repainting painted patent cement reveals and granite cills to windows to this three storey over garden level residential building at 13 Northumberland Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4, D04 X243 by Riverwalk Estates Limited. This is a Protected Structure.
WEB2319/26	Grant permission	21 Jul 2026	—	367 m	PROTECTED STRUCTURE the fitting of Solar panels to the front, rear and valley slopes of the double pitched roof and the following works to the front façade: cleaning the brickwork, cleaning the granite steps, cills, string course and coping stones and repainting painted patent cement reveals to windows, to this two storey over garden level residential building at 52 Haddington Road, Dublin 4, D04 F2NN by Bluemoon Developments Limited. This is a Protected Structure.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501294	Planning Appeal	Granted with conditions	7 Sept 2026	355 m
501947	Planning Appeal	pending	24 Aug 2026	134 m
501412	Planning Appeal	Other	24 Aug 2026	347 m
501913	Planning Appeal	pending	14 Aug 2026	349 m
501880	Planning Appeal	pending	12 Aug 2026	346 m
324512	—	pending	31 Jul 2026	400 m
501105	Planning Appeal	Granted with conditions	22 Jul 2026	418 m
501030	Planning Appeal	Granted	16 Jul 2026	324 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

12 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 16 Nov 2026
15 Oct 2026 Decision · appeal window closes 12 Nov 2026

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