RefusedCommercialDecided 9 December 2020

The Metro Hotel at Ballymun Road and Santry Avenue, Santry Cross, Ballymun, Dublin 9

Addition of three floors to the Metro Hotel, converting apartments and retail space to add 45 hotel bedrooms.

3599/20 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 21 October 2020

Reference: 3599/20
Authority: Dublin City Council
Register status: Decided
Type: Permission
Received: 21 October 2020

Summary

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The development involves adding three extra floors above the hotel's podium to make it eight storeys overall. It includes converting six existing apartments and a ground-floor retail unit to hotel use, resulting in 45 additional hotel bedrooms and a new rooftop garden.

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Storeys: 8

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Official record

Development description

Planning permission for a development at the metro hotel at ballymun road & santry avenue, santry cross, ballymun, dublin
The development involves the addition of 3 no. Extra floors at 5th, 6th and 7th floor above the 5 storey podium of the hotel which will now be eight storeys overall; the conversion and change of use of 6 no. Existing apartments at sixth floor and seventh floor level to 14 no. Hotel bedrooms; a change of use of the retail unit (152 sq. M) at ground floor to hotel use. The proposed development will result in an additional 45 no. Hotel bedrooms. 3 no. Bedrooms to be located at ground floor and the remaining 42 no. Rooms over three floors located at fifth - seventh floor. A new rooftop garden at fifth floor is proposed at the southern corner of the hotel. The development will have a total of 133 no. Hotel bedrooms and 24 no. Residential apartments in the main block. The proposed development also seeks additional illuminated signage on the east and west elevations; associated external lighting, the removal of 2 no. Double doors at ground floor on the western elevation on ballymun road and at the eastern elevation; the addition of 2 no. Windows at ground floor of the eastern elevation; a new pedestrian gate and 2 metre boundary railing to the south of ballymun road and all associated ancillary site works

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Z4: Key Urban Villages/Urban VillagesDC

“To provide for and improve mixed-services facilities.”

National zoning type: District, neighbourhood centre

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
22 The Claremont, Santry Cross, Santry Ave Dublin 9	Sept 2025	€303,000	24 m
24 The Goulding, Santry Cross, Dublin 9	Oct 2025	€304,000	48 m
Apt 17 The Kilmore, Santry Cross, Santry Ave	Aug 2025	€298,000	67 m
24 The Hampton, St Pappins St, Ballymun Dublin 11	Apr 2026	€277,000	73 m
2 The Hampton, Santry, Dublin	Jun 2026	€262,000	73 m
Apt 6 The Maiston, Santry Cross, Ballymun Dublin 11	Oct 2025	€229,000	80 m
33 Hampton, Santry Cross, Ballymun Dublin 9	Jul 2025	€255,000	89 m
50 The Hampton, Santry Cross, Santry Dublin 9	Sept 2025	€270,000	89 m

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Key dates

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Application received21 October 2020
Decision due15 December 2020
Decision issued9 December 2020

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