215082

Permission for the retention, modification and completion of a partially completed Aparthotel which includes the construction of 20 hotel bedrooms, a bar, restaurant and 24 apartments [for short-term letting] ranging in height from three to four storeys over basement. The application follows a number of similar planning permissions on site under Planning Reg. Nos. 18/6611, 02/2828, 04/9743, 08/7234 and 13/4486. The basement and steel superstructure of the southern ‘Apartment Wing’ have been constructed with some modifications to the previously permitted design, the total area constructed constitutes 1,962.03m2. The proposed development is largely similar to that previously permitted with some simplifications to the elevations, replacement of permitted external stair and lift cores with internal cores, covered balcony projections to the front elevation, changes to the finished floor levels, floor heights, eaves heights and ridge heights and change to the building footprint [as a result of works completed to date]. The applicants are also applying for permission for the construction of necessary upgrades to the deficient waste water treatment plant, 2 no. surface car parks [providing 64 no. spaces], drainage works, landscaping and boundary treatments, bin storage, pedestrian crossing, surface treatments and all ancillary site development works as well as signage to southern hotel elevation.