Dublin City Council has refused plans to redevelop the former Irish Glass Bottle site at Poolbeg for further housing.
A consortium, led by Johnny Ronan's RGRE was seeking to construct 516 apartments at the location. The redevelopment plans, which were lodged by Pembroke Beach DAC in May of last year, included two blocks ranging from four to 10 storeys.
They would comprise 143 build to rent apartments, 52 social housing units, 77 affordable housing units and 244 apartments. The plans also included residential amenity facilities, a childcare facility and 17 retail spaces including a food hall and five cafe/restaurants.
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These plans were refused due to "a number of issues with the development" which were outlined in the Planner's report.
One of the main issues was that about a fifth of the proposed apartments (21 per cent) and both of the courtyards would not get enough sunlight. They further wrote the proposed mass and design of the blocks and the narrow courtyard arrangement would result in "an unacceptably poor level of residential amenity for future occupier of both blocks".
The report also added: "While it is noted that there is great need for housing units of every type and tenure, this does not warrant poor levels of compliance with standards which have been put in place for the protection of the residential amenities of future occupants."
Another reason for the refusal was the proximity of the subject site to the South Dublin Bay Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and the South Dublin Bay and River Tolka Estuary Special Protection Area (SPA). Planners said they could not be satisfied the development would not adversely affect the integrity of the sites' conservation objectives.
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