77 and 77a George's Street Upper, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, A96RX51
Converting a retail unit into a sports facility and health club within an Architectural Conservation Area.
D25A/0078/WEB · Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council · Lodged 4 February 2025
- Reference
- D25A/0078/WEB
- Authority
- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- Permission
- Received
- 4 February 2025
Summary
AI-generatedPermission is sought for a change of use from retail to a sports facility. The works include altering an external escape door to make it accessible, lowering the internal floor level, and completing an internal fitout for a health club with activity rooms, a sauna, and changing spaces.
Generated from the description above by an AI model and may contain mistakes. The council’s description is the authoritative record.
Official record
Development description
Permission is sought for a change of use from retail to sports facility which consists of a material alteration of the external escape door to the northwest facing elevation in the provision of making it accessible by dropping it and the internal floor level in this location and introducing a new fan light above; and, an internal fitout which includes, reception, activity, storage, refuse, sanitary and sauna facilities on the ground floor with further activity, meeting, changing and sanitary spaces on the first floor at no. 77 and 77a georges street upper, dun laoghaire, dublin a96rx51 which is located on the corner of georges street upper and mellifont avenue, for studio 22 health club limited. The development is within an architectural conservation area.
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“MTC To protect, provide for and-or improve major town centre facilities.”
National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area
Objective set by the COUNTY 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
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Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Stone View Place, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin | May 2025 | €300,000 | 25 m |
| 12 Stoneview Place, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin | Aug 2025 | €720,000 | 31 m |
| Apt 8, Clarinda House, Clarinda Park West | Dec 2025 | €580,000 | 66 m |
| Apt 24, Adelphi House, Upper Geogres Street | Jan 2025 | €590,000 | 83 m |
| 25 Clarinda House, Clarinda Park West, Dun Laoghaire | Jul 2026 | €357,500 | 93 m |
| 1 Clarinda Court, Clarinda Park West, Dun Laoghaire | Apr 2025 | €582,000 | 108 m |
| 4 Clarinda Court, Clarinda Park West, Dun Laoghaire | Jan 2025 | €630,000 | 114 m |
| 31 Abbey Street, Cahir, Tipperary | Dec 2025 | €150,000 | 118 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 received4 February 2025
- Decision due31 March 2025
- Decision issued31 March 2025
In the area
Applications near this site
Other planning applications within about 500 m — what else is being proposed or built nearby.
- GrantedAt this site
Extension of existing office, change of use from furnishing showroom to estate agents office, revised…
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D02A/1165Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 7 Feb 2003Change of use
- GrantedAt this site
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D14A/0099Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 7 Mar 2014Change of use
- GrantedAt this site
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D20A/0993Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 12 Mar 2021Change of use
- RefusedAt this site
Two-storey residential extension (88 sq.m) to the rear
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D04B/0576Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 22 Jul 2004Extension
- GrantedAt this site
Permission for the Change of Use from commercial to part commercial, part residential
24 Mellifont Avenue, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin
D14A/0529Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 14 Aug 2014Change of use
- GrantedAt this site
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D04A/1554Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 10 Mar 2005Commercial
- Granted30 m away
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D04A/0111Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 2 Feb 2004Change of use
- Granted30 m away
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D24A/0575Dún Laoghaire–RathdownLodged 31 Jul 2024Change of use
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