68 O'Connell Street, extending onto Daly's Lane
Renovation and extension of a protected structure on O'Connell Street, including office, residential, and recording studio uses.
17854 · Limerick County Council · Lodged 15 September 2017
- Reference
- 17854
- Authority
- Limerick County Council
- Register status
- Decided
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Received
- 15 September 2017
Summary
AI-generatedThe proposal involves renovating a protected structure, maintaining office use on the basement and ground floors, and changing the first and second floors from residential to office use. It also includes a 2-bedroom apartment on the third floor, a glazed courtyard extension, and a separate two-storey commercial mews building to be used as a recording studio.
- Residential unit
- 1
- Storeys
- 4
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
Renovation and extension of the existing, a protected structure. The following works are proposed (i) maintain the basement and ground floor as office use and facilitate internal modification, renovation and restoration; (ii) change of use of the first and second floor from residential to office use and facilitate internal modification, renovation and restoration; (iii)maintain the third floor for residential use and modify and renovate to provide for a 2 bedroom apartment; (iv) provide an extension to the existing office building to include a glazed courtyard area and additional office floorspace at lower ground and upper ground floor; (v) construct a separate two storey mews, commercial building, with independent access from the car parking area for use as a recording studio; (vi) provision of signage on the front elevation of 68 o'connell street and on the proposed new commercial mews building to rear; (vii) provision of on-site car parking, with access off daly's lane; and (viii) all associated ancillary site development works
Land-use zoning
What this land is zoned for
“To protect, consolidate and facilitate the development of the City Centre commercial, retail, educational, leisure, residential, social and community uses and facilities.”
National zoning type: City/Town/village Centre, central area
Objective set by the Limerick 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.
Recent sales nearby
within 500 m| Address | Date | Price | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Hartstone Mews, Hartstone St, Limericknot full market price | Sept 2025 | €140,000 | 61 m |
| 1 Catherineplace, Limerick | Feb 2025 | €790,000 | 77 m |
| Apt 1, Floor 2, 8 Parnell Street | Aug 2025 | €125,000 | 81 m |
| The Basement, 3 Lower Mallow Street, Limerick | Sept 2025 | €100,000 | 105 m |
| The Ground Floor, 3 Lower Mallow Street, Limerick | Sept 2025 | €100,000 | 105 m |
| Apt 1, 3 Lower Mallow St, Limerick | Sept 2025 | €100,000 | 109 m |
| Apt 2, 3 Lower Mallow St, Limericknot full market price | Sept 2025 | €100,000 | 109 m |
| 3 Pery Sq, Basement, Limerick | Mar 2025 | €190,000 | 161 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 received15 September 2017
- Further information requested7 November 2017
- Further information received21 December 2017
- Decision due26 January 2018
- Decision issued24 January 2018
- Grant issued27 February 2018
- Permission expiry26 February 2023
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