Dollard House, (2-5 East Essex Street and 2-5 Wellington Quay), Dublin 2 and The Clarence Hotel, 6-8 Wellington Quay and 6-8 East Essex Street
Extension of duration to convert vacant offices into 56 hotel bedrooms and connect two buildings.
3325/19/X1 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 11 March 2025
- Reference
- 3325/19/X1
- Authority
- Dublin City Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Received
- 11 March 2025
Summary
AI-generatedAn extension of duration is sought for works on protected structures. The project involves interconnecting Dollard House and The Clarence Hotel, and converting vacant offices into 56 hotel bedrooms.
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Official record
Development description
Ext. Of duration: protected structure: planning permission for the following: (a) interconnection of second, third and fourth floors of dollard house with the half-landings of a late twentieth century internal staircase of the clarence hotel and the construction of a lightweight bridging structure/corridor in the clarence hotel at aforementioned three levels to connect through new openings in the external cladding of a late twentieth century stairs located in an internal lightwell, with lightweight cladding to match; (b) dollard house only: change of use of second, third and fourth floors from vacant offices to hotel use, comprising 56 bedrooms and ancillary spaces. Dollard house was originally interconnected to and formed part of the clarence hotel on these three levels: the construction of new lightweight stud partitions, doors and ceilings forming bedrooms and corridors; the forming of openings at second, third and fourth floor levels in the east wall, (which had previously existing window openings); the reinstatement of a window opening on the south elevation of the north wing at second floor level; replacement of the existing late twentieth century aluminium windows with historically appropriate timber framed windows to the north elevation facing wellington quay and steel framed windows to the window openings facing the internal lightwell and the south elevations facing east essex street.
Key dates
Timeline
- Application received11 March 2025
- Decision due6 May 2025
- Decision issued2 May 2025
- Permission expiry26 May 2027
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