WEB1113/26

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: WE The Raglan Townhouse Hotel Ltd. intend to apply for Permission and Permission for Retention. For development at this site of 0.1384 hectares at Nos.46, 48 and 52-54 Baggot Street Upper, together with Nos.46, 48, 50 and 52-54 Eastmoreland Lane, Dublin 4, Eircodes D04 F2C8, D04 Y9W8, D04 F671, D04 W7R8 and D04 XC67, and fronting onto Eastmoreland Place. Nos. 46, 48 & 52-54 Baggot Street Upper are Protected Structures (R.P.S. Nos.462, 463 and 465) Permission is sought for the following works to accommodate a 87-bedroom hotel (G.F.A. 4,100 square metres): Café/bar, café, hotel reception, courtyard and 12 guest bedrooms at ground floor level; Demolition of existing ground-floor (single-storey kitchen and toilets extension) (87 sq.m) at the rear of No.46 Baggot Street Upper, together with the reconfiguration of the existing restaurant at ground floor and new basement area, including the re-location of preparation kitchen and staff bathrooms to a new basement behind 46 Baggot Street Upper with access through hotel basement to shared goods inwards on Eastmoreland Lane, (the dental practice on the three upper floors of No.46 Baggot Street Upper will remain in place together with existing ground-floor, dentist's entrance-hallway in No.46 Baggot Street Upper); Demolition of a 110 sq.m., two-storey extension (built in 1984) at the rear of No.48 Baggot Street Upper, together with the reconfiguration of the existing shop at No.48 Baggot Street Upper, including the re-location of florist's office and workshop to a new basement behind No.48 Baggot Street Upper also with access through hotel basement to shared goods inwards on Eastmoreland Lane; Change the use of the three upper floors of No.48 Baggot Street Upper from offices to hotel bedrooms with proposed separate entrance via new, ground-floor, hotel hallway with proposed new side-door onto Baggot Street Upper at No.48; Demolition of 194 sq.m. existing two-storey gym at No.50 Eastmoreland Lane; Demolition of all twentieth-century, ground floor and first-floor (422 sq.m) flat-roof extensions from the rear of Nos.52-54 Baggot Street Upper; Change the use of Nos.52-54 Baggot Street Upper from bank branch and bank offices, to hotel, and construction of a new building to the rear of Nos. 46,48,50 & 52-54 Baggot Street Upper of four storeys plus basement floor for services & back-of-house facilities including staff-rooms, toilets, plant rooms, staff bicycle parking and waste sorting room; The development includes an off-street loading-bay, goods inwards, staff pedestrian entrance and short-term bin-staging-area within an enclosed yard off Eastmoreland Lane, together with SUDs features including green/blue roofs, four arrays of photo-voltaic panels on the roofs of the new buildings to the rear of Nos.46, 48, 50 and 52 Baggot Street Upper, placed towards the inner roof area around the inner courtyard, a 108 sq.m. landscaped courtyard at ground floor, and all ancillary site development and excavation works above and below ground. Site works also provide for an increased footpath width at the south-east corner of the site, road marking and tactile paving on the pedestrian paths on either side of the junction at Eastmoreland Place and Eastmoreland Lane. Retention Permission is also sought for the demolition of an unstable, original (but partly modified) garden wall of random, Calp Limestone and stock-brick between the rear of Nos.46 and 48 Baggot Street Upper (otherwise Nos.46 and 48 Eastmoreland Lane), where the original material has been cleaned, palleted and stored on-site for re-use on-site in the proposed landscaped courtyard marking original plot divisions between Nos.48 and 50 and between Nos.48 and 46 and also to be recycled and re-used in planter walls at the rear of Nos.52 and 54 Eastmoreland Lane.