Council blocks developer’s basement extension plans

Johnny Ronan’s plans to go underground at one of Dublin’s best known Georgian Squares have fallen foul of city council planners.

Dublin City Council has refused planning permission to Mr Ronan’s planned office extension beneath his Fitzwilliam Square house that runs the length of the property’s garden and finishes under a mews fronting on to Pembroke Lane.

The council refused planning permission after ruling that the basement extension proposal “would create an undesirable precedent for similar-type development”.