36 Bride Street, Dublin 8, D08 AX62 and Molyneux House, 67-69, Bride Street, Dublin 8, D08 C8CN
Demolition of office and industrial buildings to build a new 247-room hotel up to nine storeys tall.
2915/20 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 25 June 2020
- Reference
- 2915/20
- Authority
- Dublin City Council
- Register status
- Appealed
- Type
- Permission
- Received
- 25 June 2020
Summary
AI-generatedThe project involves the demolition of a light industrial building and an office building, including parts of the Molyneux Chapel. A new 247-room hotel will be constructed, ranging from four to nine storeys, while retaining a four-storey brick facade for an art gallery.
- Storeys
- 9
- Floor area
- 8,326 m²
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Official record
Development description
- Planning permission for development at a c. 0.1918 ha site at 36 bride street, dublin 8, d08 ax62 and molyneux house, 67-69 bride street, dublin 8, d08 c8cn. The development will consist of the following
- The demolition of an existing single-storey pitched roofed light industrial building (c. 480sqm) and a 2/4/5-storey office building including the remaining external walls and roof of molyneux chapel (c. 2,639sqm)
- The construction of a 247-room hotel building comprising of a part 4-storey, part 5-storey brickwork and polyester-powder coated framed glazed block facing bride street and a nine storey brickwork and polyester-powder coated framed glass block at the corner of bride street and peter street. A total of 14 disability accessible bedrooms are included
- The proposed building has a total height of 31.856m above ground (+44.41m odm, including lift overrun), stepping back at 4th, 5th and 6th floor levels with a gross floor area of c. 8,326 sqm (including basement of c. 261 sqm)
- The retention of a 4-storey brick facade element to bride street to create an 'art-link' open air gallery space at ground floor level and the insertion of a linked gallery 'stephenson room' at 2nd floor level
- Polyester powder-coated steel entrance gates, cycle parking stands both inside and outside gates and hard and soft landscaping elements and external seating to the existing terrace courtyard at the northern boundary of the site
- A ground floor 'living room' foyer area will include a bar and servery, check-in pods, soft seating areas and meeting rooms, toilets and back of house areas with links to the open air gallery and landscaped terrace courtyard. This area will span the entire width of the building on bride street and include side hung glazed terrace doors as well as a draught lobby with 2 no. Sets of bi-parting automated doors
- An electrical sub-station located at ground floor on the peter street facade
- An existing part basement area is proposed to be retained for plant
- Rooftop plant areas above both 5th floor and 9th floor areas will be screened with polyester powder-coated louvered metal panels
- Artwork poem at 3rd, 4th and 5th floor levels to brickwork panel to bride street corner of the peter street facade
- 2 no. Signage panels at 9th floor level to brick panels
- All other engineering and associated site development works
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To consolidate and facilitate the development of the central area, and to identify, reinforce, strengthen and protect its civic design character and dignity.”
National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area
Objective set by the Development Plan 2022-2028 (2022–2028). The planning authority decides each application on its own merits — this is the zoning context, not a compliance assessment.
Read the zoning objectives in the development planBuilt & sold
What happened next
Beyond the decision: whether this development was built, and what property here has sold for.
Built — construction complete
A commencement notice records works starting on 8 August 2023. A completion certificate was lodged on 1 July 2025.
Notified floor area: 27,138 m²
2 commencement notices are linked to this development.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 John Field Rd, Dublin 8, Dublin | Mar 2026 | €638,000 | 55 m |
| Apt 46, Canon Court, Bride St Dublin 8 | May 2025 | €366,000 | 58 m |
| Apt 19, Cannon Court, Bride St Dublin 8 | Apr 2025 | €350,000 | 58 m |
| 23 Cannon Court, Bride Street, Dublin 8 | Nov 2025 | €220,000 | 58 m |
| 33 Canon Court, Bride St, Christchurch Dublin 8 | Jun 2026 | €357,000 | 58 m |
| 10 Alexandra Walk, Adelaide Sq, Whitefriar St Dublin 8 | Mar 2026 | €389,000 | 69 m |
| Apt 36, Adelaide Sq, Whitefriar St | Jun 2026 | €370,000 | 69 m |
| Apt 5, Adelaide Sq, Whitefriar St Dublin 8 | Apr 2025 | €380,000 | 69 m |
Nearby properties, not this site — a guide to local values.
Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) and the Residential Property Price Register, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Records are matched to this application by location and may not be exhaustive; always confirm against the official source before relying on them.
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received25 June 2020
- Further information requested19 August 2020
- Further information received18 December 2020
- Decision due22 January 2021
- Decision issued22 January 2021
- Grant issued14 January 2022
- Appeal submitted23 February 2021
- Appeal decided14 January 2022
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