Core Planning Reasoning
The Inspector recommended granting permission with modified conditions, upholding the requirement for a fully hipped roof on visual amenity grounds and ruling a proposed side dormer inadmissible, while allowing the retention of two out of three front rooflights.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- Condition 6(a) requiring a fully hipped roof end is necessary to protect the visual amenity of the existing streetscape.
- The side dormer window proposed at the appeal stage to solve headroom issues is inadmissible as it was not included in the original development description.
- Condition 6(c) should be amended to allow two of the three front rooflights, as a pair provides aesthetic coherence whereas the lower single rooflight is considered ungainly.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Dublin City Development Plan 2016 – 2022Zoning Z1Section 16.10.12Appendix 17Section 17.11
Decision Document Summary
The application concerns a first-floor side extension and attic conversion at 60 Cill Eanna, Raheny, a residential area zoned Z1. Dublin City Council granted permission subject to conditions, specifically Condition 6 which mandated a fully hipped roof and the omission of three front rooflights. The applicants appealed these specific points, arguing that the hipped roof requirement compromised staircase headroom and proposing a side dormer as a remedy. The Inspector found the side dormer proposal...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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