March 24, 2022

An Bord Pleanala has given planning permission for a new 106-bedroom hotel on Alexandra Place on East Road in the north Docklands.

In addition, permission has also been granted for the refurbishment and extension of the adjoining apartment with an 58 new apartments being added.

The apartment block will have a mix of 131 studio, 1 bedroom, 2 and 3 bed apartments.

The new scheme will also see the expansion and improvement of the existing amenities within the apartment complex, including landscaping as well as a new accessible rooftop garden.

The boutique hotel is designed by Douglas Wallace Consultants and it will include a ground floor bar, restaurant and conference suite including external terraced restaurant area.

The scheme, sensitive to its impact on its immediate environment, has been designed at varying heights, with four stories to its rear and, leveraging the road frontage, eight to the front.

It will be one of only three hotels in the North Docklands area which is home to such blue-chip business as Central Bank, Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Version.

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