Land parcel 2577972

Area

222 m²

Buildings

3 buildings touch it. Their footprint covers 903 m².

Zoning

M2 Z5: City Centre (Development Plan 2022-2028 (Variation No. 11)) The objective

Townland

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Planning applications on this parcel

• 13 Mar 2025Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Ltd. intend to apply for planning permission for development at No. 62 O'Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1 (Protected Structure). The development will consist of proposed external and internal improvement works including improved service window and counter area, new walls and fire doors at ground floor level; new walls and fire doors to basement, upper mezzanine, first floor, second floor and third floor levels; proposed works to the existing shopfront/front eastern elevation to include new fascia board and associated works, replacement of existing lights, replacement glazing to existing window, new shopfront signage to replace existing signage to include internally illuminated projecting sign, wall mounted golden arch and 'McDonald's' text signage, new orb, and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1523/25

• 17 Feb 2025Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: McDonald's Restaurants of Ireland Ltd. intend to apply for planning permission for development at No. 62 O'Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1 (Protected Structure). The development will consist of proposed external and internal improvement works including improved service window and counter area, new walls and fire doors at ground floor level; new walls and fire doors to basement, upper mezzanine, first floor, second floor and third floor levels; proposed works to the existing shopfront/front eastern elevation to include new fascia board and associated works, replacement of existing lights, replacement glazing to existing window, new shopfront signage to replace existing signage to include internally illuminated projecting sign, wall mounted golden arch and McDonald's text signage, new orb, and all associated site works necessary to facilitate the development

  Permission · Dublin City Council, WEB1304/25

• 13 Dec 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission at a site (c.0.02Ha), at No. 61 O'Connell Street Upper (a Protected Structure), including rear onto Henry Place, Dublin 1. The site is otherwise bound by No. 62 O'Connell Street Upper to the south, the east side of Henry Place to the west, the west side of O'Connell Street Upper to the east and No. 60 O'Connell Street Upper to the north. The proposed development comprises the conservation, repair, refurbishment and adaptive reuse of an existing commercial building (4 storey over basement) to include: - a 'licensed restaurant/cafe unit with takeaway/collection facility' (c.35 sq. m gfa) at ground floor level on O'Connell Street Upper and a 'licensed restaurant/ cafe unit with takeaway/collection facility' (c.10 sq. m gfa) at ground floor level on Henry Place; 3 no. 2 bed apartments from 1st to 3rd floor (1no. unit per storey); 1no. gym/leisure studio (c.172 sq. m gfa) at basement level; All associated and ancillary site development works, conservation, demolition, landscaping, temporary works, including: - the creation of a new pedestrian link through part of the ground floor connecting O'Connell Street Upper and Henry Place; bicycle (8no.) and bin storage to rear of No. 61 O'Connell Street Upper at ground floor level; building signage zones and retractable canopy. The application site is within the O'Connell Street Architectural Conservation Area. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) accompanies this application.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5432/22

• 26 Oct 2022Application declared inva

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission at a site (c.0.02Ha), at No. 61 O'Connell Street Upper (a Protected Structure), including rear onto Henry Place, Dublin 1. The site is otherwise bound by No. 62 O'Connell Street Upper to the south, the east side of Henry Place to the west, the west side of O'Connell Street Upper to the east and No. 60 O'Connell Street Upper to the north. The proposed development comprises the conservation, repair, refurbishment and adaptive reuse of an existing commercial building (4 storey over basement) to include:-a 'licensed restaurant/cafe unit with takeaway/collection facility' (c.35 sq. m gfa) at ground floor level on O'Connell Street Upper and a 'licensed restaurant/ cafe unit with takeaway/collection facility' (c.10 sq. m gfa) at ground floor level on Henry Place; 3 no. 2bed apartments from 1s to 3rd floor (1no. unit per storey); 1no. gym/leisure studio (c.172 sq. m gfa) at basement level; All associated and ancillary site development works, conservation, demolition, landscaping, temporary works, including:- the creation of a new pedestrian link through part of the ground floor connecting O'Connell Street Upper and Henry Place; bicycle (8no.) and bin storage to rear of No. 61 O'Connell Street Upper at ground floor level; building signage zones and retractable canopy. The application site is within the O'Connell Street Architectural Conservation Area. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) accompanies this application.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5127/22

• 26 Oct 2022Grant permission

  PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Dublin Central GP Limited Intends to apply for Permission for a period of 11 years at a site, 'Dublin Central - Site 2' (c. 1.33 Ha), at No. 43 (a Protected Structure), No. 44 (a Protected Structure), Nos. 45 - 49, Nos. 50 - 51 O'Connell Street Upper (a vacant site), Nos. 52 - 54 (a Protected Structure), Nos. 55 - 56, No. 57 (a Protected Structure), No. 58 (a Protected Structure) and No. 60A O'Connell Street Upper and the rear of Nos. 59 - 60 O'Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1. Also, the site includes No. 13 Moore Lane, No. 14 Moore Lane (otherwise known as Nos. 1 - 3 O'Rahilly Parade and Nos. 14 - 15 Moore Lane or Nos. 1 - 8 O'Rahilly Parade and Nos. 14 - 15 Moore Lane) and the public realm associated with O'Rahilly Parade, Moore Lane, Henry Place and a portion of O'Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1. The site is otherwise bound by Henry Place and Nos. 59 - 60 O'Connell Street Upper to the south, the east side of Moore Lane to the west and west side of O'Connell Street Upper to the east and No. 42 O'Connell Street Upper to the north. The proposed development comprises a mixed-use scheme (c. 38,479 sq. m gross floor area) ranging in height from 2 - 8 storeys over single level basements including a new street between O'Connell Street Upper and Moore Lane, a new controlled Laneway from Moore Lane (adjacent No. 42 O'Connell Street Upper - a Protected Structure). The proposed development accommodates: - 6no. units for use as a 'licensed restaurant / café units with takeaway / collection facility' at ground floor level (Unit 1 - c. 67 sq. m and Unit 2 - c. 244 sq. m on Moore Lane, Unit 3 - c. 178 sq. m and Unit 4 - c. 75sq. m on O'Connell Street Upper, Unit 5 - c. 58 sq. m on New Street and Unit 6 - c. 296 sq. m on Moore Lane and New Street; 1no. unit for use as a 'licensed restaurant / café unit with takeaway / collection facility' across basement, ground, 1st and 2nd floor (c. 878 sq. m) on O'Connell Street Upper; 8no. retail units, each for use as a 'shop' or 'licensed restaurant / café units with takeaway / collection facility' at ground floor level (Unit 1 - c. 1,041 sq. m on O'Connell Street Upper and Moore Lane, Unit 2 - c. 311 sq. m and Unit 3 - c. 260 sq. m on O'Connell Street Upper and New Street, Unit 4 - c. 452 sq. m on New Street, Unit 5 - c. 251 sq. m on Moore Lane, Unit 6 - c. 162 sq. m and Unit 7 - c. 58 sq. m on O'Connell Street Upper and Unit 8 - c. 40 sq. m on Moore Lane and new controlled Laneway); Temporary use of retail Unit 8 (c. 40 sq. m) as a delivery hub, pending the completion of same at Site 5 under DCC Reg. Ref. 2863/21; Office use (c. 33,714 sq. m) from 1st to 7th floor with access from O'Connell Street Upper, rear of No. 59 O'Connell Street upper and new plaza on Henry Place and new controlled Laneway. Terraces proposed at 1st, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th floor; Refurbishment of the 'Reading Room' (rear of No. 59 O'Connell Street Upper, Dublin 1) as 'licensed restaurant / café unit with takeaway / collection facility' at ground floor level and ancillary café use at basement level (c. 244 sq. m in total). The single level basement comprises: - Access ramp from Moore Lane; 32no. car parking space; 372no. bicycle parking spaces with access to secure bicycle storage areas from the new plaza on Henry Place and the new controlled laneway from Moore Lane; Plant and waste storage areas; A structural box (120m length, 26m width, 34.5m depth) beneath the ground floor level that has been designed to accommodate the independent construction and operation of the planned O'Connell Street MetroLink Station by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, including provision of the structural envelope and co-ordinated voids to accommodate station entrances, ventilation and fire escape shafts through this part of the Dublin Central proposed development. These ensure that the Dublin Central proposed development is structurally independent of, and not prejudicial to, the MetroLink project. The MetroLink project will be the subject of a separate application for approval to be made by Transport Infrastructure Ireland. This part of the Dublin Central proposed development is referred to as the MetroLink Enabling Works; All associated and ancillary site development, conservation, demolition, landscaping and temporary works, including: - Conservation, repair, refurbishment and adaptive reuse of part of the existing building fabric, including: - Retention of part of the rear of No. 59 O'Connell Street Upper (known as the 'Reading Room') internal and external modifications and new shopfronts; Retention of the facades of Nos. 57 - 58 O'Connell Street Upper (Protected Structures); Retention of the facades of Nos. 52 - 54 O'Connell Street Upper (Carlton Cinema - Protected Structures) including the reinstatement of the canopies; Retention of the facades of Nos. 43 - 44 O'Connell Street Upper (Protected Structures); Retention of the facade of No. 45 O'Connell Street Upper; Works to include repair and upgrade works (where required) of retained masonry, external and internal joinery, plasterwork and features of significance; Conservation and repair of existing lightwells on O'Connell Street Upper; Demolition of all other existing buildings and structures on site (c. 22,521 sq. m) including No. 13 Moore Lane and No. 14 Moore Lane (otherwise known as Nos. 1 - 3 O'Rahilly Parade and Nos. 14 - 15 Moore Lane or Nos. 1 - 8 O'Rahilly Parade and Nos. 14 - 15 Moore Lane) to facilitate a temporary construction compound; Laying of services in Parnell Street westwards from Moore Lane for approximately 49 metres; Improvement works to the public realm on O'Rahilly Parade, Moore Lane and Henry Place, including the provision of a new entrance off O'Connell Street Upper for deliveries / emergency access. There are also adjustments and improvement works proposed at the junctions of Moore Street with Henry Place and with O'Rahilly Parade; Creation of a new street connecting O'Connell Street Upper with Moore Lane and provision of a new plaza at the junction of Moore Lane and Henry Place; 3no. telecommunication lattice towers which can accommodate 3no. 800mm antenna and 2no. 300mm microwave link dishes with associated equipment on the building rooftop in Site 2C; 2no. ESB sub-stations; Building signage zones and retractable canopies. The application site is within the O'Connell Street Architectural Conservation Area. An Environmental Impact Assessment Report (EIAR) accompanies this application.

  Permission · Dublin City Council, 5126/22

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches this parcel.

Recorded monuments around it

No zone of notification of a recorded monument touches this parcel.

Architectural heritage

• House, 1750–1915 · Regional interest
  Description

  Terraced two-bay four-storey brick townhouse, built c.1760, remodelled 1913, with recent shopfront to ground floor. M-profile slate roof behind rebuilt parapet wall with granite coping. Rendered stepped chimneystacks with clay pots to both party walls. Red brick walls laid in Flemish bond, rebuilt to top floor with moulded brick string course and dentillated brick course to parapet. Cement rendered walls to rear elevation. Square-headed window openings with concrete sills and replacement timber sliding sash windows. Lugged architrave surrounds to first and second floors, plain architrave surrounds to third floor with pediments to first floor windows and cornices to second floor windows. Square-headed window openings to rear with replacement casement windows and single round-headed former stair window opening. Tall rendered wall to rear with recent entrance onto Henry Place.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Ground and risks

Radon

At the centre of this parcel, about 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map gives no landslide susceptibility class here. Parts of the land are made ground.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3206 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

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Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee.