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Council refuses planning permission for hotel on Capel Street, says there are too many hotels in Dublin
It is believed to be the first time council planners have cited concerns about the growing number of hotels as a reason to refuse planning permission. By Seán McCárthaigh Tuesday 2 Feb 2021, 11:40 AM Feb 2nd 2021, 11:40 AM 36,072 Views 32 Comments
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PLANNING PERMISSION FOR a new hotel in Dublin city centre has been refused by Dublin City Council over concerns about the “overconcentration” of hotels in the area.
The council said plans for a 142-bedroom hotel at the corner of Capel Street and Strand Street Little would “exacerbate” a situation where a large number of new hotels had been approved in the same neighbourhood in recent years with several others in th
It follows a surge in applications for planning permission to develop new hotels and extend existing ones in Dublin in recent years in response to a shortage of visitor accommodation for record numbers of international and domestic tourists to the city.
The council said the plans for the nine-storey hotel by Ringline Investments would undermine the vision of the Dublin City Development Plan for a dynamic mix of uses within the city centre and “exacerbate the existing saturation of hotel rooms within the immediate vicinity.”
Council planners noted that eight other applications to build hotels and aparthotels providing a total of 1,985 bedrooms had been granted planning permission within 350 metres of Ringline’s site since 2017.
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