Part granted, part refusedCommercialDecided 23 February 2024

Ashtons Pub, 11 Vergemount, Clonskeagh Road, Dublin 6

Demolition of structures to build a five-storey extension for a pub, restaurant, and boutique hotel.

5046/23 · Dublin City Council · Lodged 21 December 2023

Reference: 5046/23
Authority: Dublin City Council
Register status: Appealed
Type: Permission
Received: 21 December 2023

Summary

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The project involves the demolition of unauthorized walls, a garden room, and an outdoor seating area. It proposes a five-storey extension to accommodate a public house/restaurant on the lower floors and boutique hotel bedrooms on the upper floors, alongside retention of shopfront alterations.

Commercialhotelpubdemolitionextension

Storeys: 5
Floor area: 1,395 m²

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Official record

Development description

Permission & retention: the development will consist of
Planning permission: a) the demolition of (i) recent (unauthorised) west walls to the carpark; (ii) timber-framed, glazed, garden room at lower ground floor (220sqm), roof profile to be modified as required at (b) below; and (iii) a previously existing roofed outdoor seating area at upper ground floor level (51sqm); b) the construction of a five-storey extension (1395sqm) to the south part of the existing two-storey building, containing public house/restaurant on lower and upper ground floors and boutique hotel bedrooms on first, second and third floors. Bedrooms to be provided with balconies/terraces facing east and west; public house/restaurant to have terraces facing east at both levels. Ancillary services to include waste storage at lower ground level with service lift to upper ground floor level (street level); c) enclosed plant room to rear (east) on roof of existing public house (first floor level); d) associated hard and soft landscaping, including drainage and works to public sewer and 8 no. Of cycle parking spaces
Retention permission: e) alterations to the west (front) façade to provide two no. Shopfronts with names over, and two storey extension (21sqm per total) to the rear, facing east; f) new window to east elevation, lower ground floor; g) steel pedestrian gate at north-east corner of site

Land-use zoning

What this land is zoned for

Z1: Sustainable Residential NeighbourhoodsRS

“To protect, provide and improve residential amenities.”

National zoning type: Existing residential

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within 500 m

Residential Property Price Register sales within 500 metres of this site
Address	Date	Price	Distance
13 Riverwalk, Clonskeagh, Dublin 14	May 2026	€557,500	43 m
Apt 32 - Donnybrook Court, Donnybrook, Dublin 4	May 2025	€376,000	83 m
27 Donnybrook Court, Beaver Rd, Donnybrook Dublin 4	Apr 2025	€530,000	89 m
22 Donnybrook Court, Beaver Row, Donnybrook	Apr 2025	€509,000	101 m
21 Donnybrook Court, Beaver Row, Donnybrook	Jul 2026	€545,000	105 m
17 Donnybrook Court, Donnybrook, Dublin 4	Sept 2025	€510,000	118 m
8 Donnybrook Court, Beaver Row, Donnybrook	Sept 2025	€685,000	122 m
10 Donnybrook Court, Beaver Row, Donnybrook Dublin 4	May 2025	€565,000	127 m

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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 received21 December 2023
Decision due23 February 2024
Decision issued23 February 2024
Appeal submitted21 March 2024
Appeal decided3 April 2025
Permission expiry17 May 2030

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