Dublin City Council refused permission for the six-storey hotel last September as the Co Meath waste magnate looks to expand his accommodation offerings in the capital city.
The former Jacobs HQ was snapped up for €20 million. Waters has longer-term plans for luxury apartments but, for now, the Dublin 4 complex looks set to house international protection applicants.
Kenneth Donfield has fought for five years, from the RTB to the Four Courts, to avoid eviction from his bedsit flat and home of 21 years in a building now owned by Eamon Waters. The High Court has decided that the fight will go on.
In March, a local family raised concern over the potential impact of the planned 24-acre facility on their farm in Huntstown. An Bord Pleanála was to decide this week but has now delayed its decision indefinitely.
A company owned by the former waste tycoon plans to convert the recently purchased €20 million Merrion House in Dublin 4 to temporarily accommodate international protection applicants.
Dublin City Council refused permission for the proposed six-storey hotel last month as the former waste tycoon looks to expand his accommodation offerings in the capital.
The decision comes a week after Dublin City Council refused permission for further hotel plans on Baggot Street Lower as the former waste tycoon looks to expand his accommodation offerings in the capital.
The owners of the luxury hotel want the council to outright refuse planning permission for the development, the latest snag to hit the tycoon’s plans to build out a range of hotel offerings in the capital.
Kenneth Donfield has been fighting for five years to stay in the modest bedsit apartment that has been his home for over 20 years in a building now owned by a Waters company. The case will go to the High Court.
Rathdrinagh Land, a Waters property vehicle, wants the courts to enforce an order for Kenneth Donfield to leave his flat in its Dublin 2 property. He is fighting the move as a five-year row rumbles on.
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