Twilfit House, 137-140 Abbey Street Upper, 57-60 Jervis Street and 1-4 Wolfe Tone Street, Dublin 1, D01 P2PO
The proposed development, which provides for alterations to the permitted building comprises an increase in the size of the permitted Mezzanine, first and seventh floor levels (from 1,805 sq m floor are total permitted across these levels to 2.287 sq m floor area total proposed across these levels), and a decrease in the size of the permitted ground, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth floor levels (from 5.683sq m floor are total permitted across these levels to 5,518 sq m floor area total proposed across these levels) (no change in size to the permitted basement level (324 sq m) is proposed); the reconfiguration of the internal layout of all levels of the permitted building (from basement to seventh floor levels), to include amendments to the hotel bedrooms and related ancillary hotel facilities including work space, reception area, lobby and restaurant with public bar, storage areas, administration and staff facilities, plant, waste storage area and bicycle store, ancillary space (which includes areas such as circulation cores (lifts and stairs) and routes, plant areas throughout the building, electrical substations and switch rooms, toilets and shower areas etc.), and lightwell (including the extension to the lightwell to the enlarged Mezzanine level); alterations to the permitted building's elevations from ground to seventh floor levels, including alterations to the lightwell elevations; alterations to the permitted plant areas at roof level and associated relocation of the roof plant screen, where required; an increase in the thickness of the external wall around the permitted buildings perimeter from ground to seventh floor levels; alterations to the permitted finished floor levels and external roof build-up of the permitted building resulting in an increase in the height of the building from c. 25.8m permitted to c. 26.78m proposed and associated alterations to permitted hard and soft landscaping and permitted scheme's site services (mechanical and electrical, water supply, sewage disposal and surface water disposal). The total gross floor area of the hotel building increases by c. 317sq m (from c. 7,812 sq m permitted to c. 8,129 sq , proposed) with an increase in the number of hotel bedrooms proposed from 206 no. permitted to 219 no. proposed.