Hayfield group appeals decision on proposed Donnybrook Hotel

Hayfield Manor Hotel, Cork

A leading Munster-based hotel group is to try and reverse a decision that halted its plans for a €50m five-star facility that would mark its entry into the Dublin market.

Hoteliers Joe and Margaret Scally have lodged an appeal with An Bord Pleanála against the decision by Dublin City Council last March to refuse planning permission for the proposed new 168-bed hotel on the site of the former St Mary’s College in Donnybrook.