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PROTECTED STRUCTURE: PERMISSION: The development will consist of internal reconfiguration at basement and ground floor level and internal alterations and external extensions at fourth floor level to the existing hotel to provide 16no. additional bedrooms (161 in total), as follows: (1) Basement Level: 4no. en-suite bedrooms at basement level in lieu of gym area and storage and provision of new smaller gym and storage rooms; (2) Ground Level: 8no. en-suite bedrooms at ground floor in lieu of existing 3no. adjacent meeting rooms and extending into the existing external courtyard and involving the creation a larger external courtyard to suit the new bedroom layout; (3) Fourth Floor: 4no ensuite bedrooms provided on existing external terraces either side of the existing lift core on Strand Street Great elevation accessed from existing fourth floor bedroom corridor and resulting in new build extensions at this level of 134sqm. Proposals at this level also include a new service door to the retained terrace area and a new escape stairs to the roof level. (4) Roof Level: New plant enclosure to facilitate generator relocated from fourth floor terrace. The proposed development increases the overall hotel from 9580sqm to 9670sqm (an overall net increase of 90sqm gross floor area) and the total number of hotel bedrooms will increase from 145no. to 161 no. 14 & 15 Ormond Quay Lower are Protected Structures (RPS Ref: 6062 and 6063).