20211068

The development was refused primarily due to its excessive scale, height, and massing which would negatively impact the character of the area and residential amenity, coupled with unresolved traffic safety issues concerning the proposed loading bay and a lack of demonstrated legal interest over a crucial adjacent laneway.

• The scale, height, and proximity of the structure to boundaries would result in undue visual obtrusion, overshadowing, and loss of light for adjoining residential properties, specifically at no. 40 Esmonde Street and dwellings on Arklow Road.
• The proposed loading bay arrangements on the busy Arklow Road are substandard in dimension and would likely result in hazardous reversing maneuvers, posing a risk to both pedestrians and traffic.
• The applicant failed to demonstrate sufficient legal interest over the existing private laneway which, despite being excluded from the revised site boundary, remains integral to the development's proposed access, drainage, and cantilevered elements.