Successful challenge to planning permission for Lidl store

A hotel and local residents have successfully challenged a decision by Dublin City Council to grant planning permission for a large new outlet for a German discount supermarket group.

An Bord Pleanála has overturned the decision by the local authority in June and refused permission for the store planned by Lidl in Drumcondra.

Although the planning appeals authority said the use of the site on Drumcondra Road Upper for a supermarket was acceptable and in compliance with the zoning for the area, it ruled that the design, scale, mass, and location of the proposed building was inappropriate for the local streetscape.