Developer Liam Carroll faces delays to plans to convert vacant flats in a former Victorian gasworks into a 520-room hotel after objections from residents who have bought flats in the same scheme.
The Irish planning appeal board said it would review Dublin council’s decision last month to allow the development in the Ringsend area of the city’s south docks following the objections.
There are over 400 occupied apartments within the 7.8-acre site but 200 additional apartments have remained empty since going on sale two years ago.
Carroll wants to convert the empty apartments into a luxury hotel but adjoining residents fear this would create a disturbance in what was originally sold to them as a purely residential scheme.
The planning application to Dublin City Council was objected to by 35 of the local residents while 20 are understood to have lodged the appeal to An Board Plenala against the council’s decision to give the scheme the green light.
The developer wants to build a four-storey glazed roof “springing” from the first floor level over an internal courtyard which will be incorporated into the hotel. There would be a new three-storey glazed entrance to the hotel.
