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News: Planning and Development

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HSE reapplies for Beaumont project

Dara Gantly | 03 March 2010

The HSE has submitted a fresh application for outline planning permission for a new three-storey radiation oncology facility at Beaumont Hospital. The development involves the provision of Phase 2 radiation oncology facilities for the national plan for radiation oncology. The... Read more

Fresh application lodged for D4 medical centre

Dara Gantly | 01 March 2010

A fresh application has been lodged with Dublin City Council (DCC) to develop a new 714.5 sqm medical centre and pharmacy in Dublin 4. The development at 240 Merrion Road — the applicants for which included Dr Enda Ryan and... Read more

Unit still unoccupied after eight months

Staff reporter | 01 March 2010

The state-of-the-art, 60-bed residential unit for the intellectually disabled in Portrane, Co Dublin, will continue to lie idle, as it has since it was completed in July 2009, the Department of Health has confirmed. The HSE cannot open the Knockamann... Read more

Permission sought for Ballyfermot PC Centre

01 March 2010

The HSE is seeking planning permission from Dublin City Council to develop a three-storey, 3,900sqm community primary care and mental health centre in Ballyfermot, Dublin. Located on the Upper Ballyfermot Road, the development will also include a 600sqm single-storey crèche... Read more

Planning setback for Beaumont project

Dara Gantly | 23 February 2010

Dublin City Council has ruled an application for outline planning permission for a new three-storey radiation oncology structure at Beaumont Hospital ‘invalid’. The HSE development comprises the provision of Phase 2 radiation oncology facilities for the national plan for radiation... Read more

Planning permission for Crumlin ICU facility

Dara Gantly | 09 December 2009

Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin (OLCHC) is seeking planning permission from Dublin City Council for a new two-storey intensive care unit (ICU). To be built partially over an existing building on campus, the unit will comprise 339.8 sqm at ground... Read more

Nursing home site refused in Kildare

Dara Gantly | 23 November 2009

An Bord Pleanála has refused an appeal against a decision by Kildare County Council earlier this year to deny planning permission for a 60-bedroom nursing home in the county. The 1.75ha site for the proposed development is located at Balyna,... Read more

Wyndale clinic to go ahead next year

Gary Culliton | 18 November 2009

It is hoped that construction will begin on Letterkenny’s €45m, 125,000 square-feet Wyndale Clinic early next year, according to one of the project’s backers, Mr Pat Harvey, a former CEO of the North West Health Board. The planned private hospital... Read more

Planning permission granted for St James's

Dara Gantly | 09 November 2009

Dublin City Council has granted outline planning permission for phase 2 of radiation oncology facilities at St James’s Hospital in Dublin. The development comprises a new four-storey over basement radiation oncology structure (approx 14,020 sqm) and a new single-storey link... Read more

New elective site could be Cappagh

Niamh Mullen | 04 November 2009

An elective surgical centre for the eastern region could be built on a 30-acre site at Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital in Dublin, CEO Aidan Gleeson has said. Such a facility would take the pressure off emergency services in Dublin and... Read more

Irish health giant quiet on future of facilities

29 October 2009

Uncertainty still exists over the future direction of a number of healthcare facilities that fall under the umbrella of the high-profile Harlequin Healthcare/Mount Carmel Health Group. The group owns Mount Carmel Maternity Hospital in Rathfarnham in Dublin, which it acquired... Read more

Approval sought for nursing home changes

21 October 2009

Orwell Contracting Ltd is seeking planning permission from Dublin City Council to reconfigure the previously permitted scheme at the Orwell Nursing Home in Rathgar. The developer wants to makes changes to the facade and footprint of the building, which is... Read more

Radiation plan at St James’s ‘invalid’

Dara Gantly | 17 September 2009

An application for outline planning permission for phase 2 of radiation oncology facilities at St James’s Hospital has been deemed ‘invalid’ by Dublin City Council (DCC). Due to omissions in the planning documentation, the hospital will now have to erect... Read more

Planner 'baffled' over Cork medical centre

Dara Gantly | 15 September 2009

An inspector with An Bord Pleanála said he was ‘frankly baffled’ as to how a multi-storey medical centre on the fringe of Cork city ever got planning permission. In his report to the Bord following an appeal over permission to... Read more

St Vincent’s gets Council approval

Dara Gantly | 09 September 2009

Dublin City Council (DCC) has granted permission to St Vincent’s University Hospital to change the plans for an eight-storey in-patient ward building at the Dublin hospital. Permission to change the elevations and an extension to the basement to accommodate a... Read more

St James's gets go-ahead for admin block

Dara Gantly | 19 August 2009

Dublin City Council (DCC) has granted planning permission to the Board of St James’s Hospital to build a new three-storey administration block at the Dublin hospital. Permission was obtained last week (August 10) for the 2,233 sqm development on a... Read more

Health insurance loss hits hospitals

Dara Gantly | 19 August 2009

The HSE estimates that the loss of private health-insurance income to six hospitals involved in the co-location projects will amount to €100 million, or an average of €16 million per hospital. Minister for Health Mary Harney has stressed that this... Read more

Permission granted for CUH co-located hospital

Dara Gantly | 07 August 2009

An Bord Pleanála has granted planning permission to Beacon Medical Group (BMG) to construct a co-located hospital at Cork University Hospital (CUH) . The 32,893 sqm state-of-the-art hospital will comprise 175 single rooms with eight CCU beds, six operating theatres,... Read more

Cork hospital gets €85m

Terence Cosgrave | 05 August 2009

Following a spate of investment in the hospital sector in Cork in recent weeks, Bon Secours became the latest group to announce details of a large investment (€85 million) in its hospital in Cork. Pat Lyons, Group Chief Executive, Bon... Read more

Six-storey extension sought for Holles St

Dara Gantly | 29 July 2009

The Board of Governors of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) is seeking planning permission from Dublin City Council for a six-storey extension. The development will be sited to the rear of the existing hospital and incorporates a new ‘emergency-only’ entrance... Read more

GPs in Kerry want Bord Pleanála ruling

Dara Gantly | 17 July 2009

Kerry GPs have asked An Bord Pleanála to rule on the zoning status of a dispensary for prescribed medicines. Locals GPs behind the planned primary care centre for Killarney have made the appeal following the decision by Killarney Town Council... Read more

D4 centre refused planning

Dara Gantly | 26 June 2009

An application for planning permission for a new a 785 sqm medical centre and pharmacy in Dublin 4 has been refused by Dublin City Council (DCC). The development at 240 Merrion Road — the applicants for which included Dr Enda... Read more

No ideology in planning

Dara Gantly | 22 June 2009

An Bord Pleanála has reiterated that ‘ideological debate’ around the issue of co-located hospitals does not form part of the planning process and cannot be considered by the Bord in any appeals. According to the Inspector’s Report attached to the... Read more

Radiation/oncology centres for Dublin

Dara Gantly | 22 June 2009

Dublin City Council has granted planning permission to the HSE to develop new radiation oncology centres at St James’s and Beaumont hospitals in Dublin. The 6,066 sq m facility at St James’s and the 4,638 sq m centre at Beaumont... Read more

Cost of Grangegorman site development has hit €1.4bn

Dara Gantly | 26 May 2009

The overall cost of delivering all of the elements of Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and HSE services on the Grangegorman site has been estimated at €1.4 billion, the Minister for Education has revealed. The first tranche is to cost... Read more

Cherry Orchard gets planning permission

26 May 2009

The HSE has been granted planning permission by Dublin City Council to construct a new detached three-storey building on the Cherry Orchard Hospital campus. The building — whose use will be mainly clinical, to relieve existing satellite hospital services —... Read more

Planning granted for 90-bed nursing home

20 May 2009

Planning permission has been granted to develop a 90-bed nursing home/ 110-bed mental health facility on the Swords Road in Whitehall, Dublin. Approved by Dublin City Council last week, the 13,051sqm building works includes a change of use to the... Read more

Call for recruits to help the poor of Uganda this autumn

Mary Anne Kenny | 08 April 2009

An Irish development agency is looking for participants to join it on a fund-raising field trip to Africa this autumn. Self Help Africa is seeking recruits to take part in the trip to Uganda. Participants will meet with local communities... Read more

Decision pending for Mount Carmel

Dara Gantly | 31 March 2009

An Bord Pleanála is due to decide on the planning appeal for a new 160-bed hospital on the Mount Carmel campus by July 7. The proposed development in Churchtown, Dublin, will comprise a new hospital, the demolition of all existing... Read more

New planning application for €160m hospital

Gary Culliton | 26 March 2009

Beacon Medical Group has announced that it has submitted a fresh planning application for a state-of-the-art Women’s, Children’s and Maternity Hospital adjacent to Beacon Medical Campus in Sandyford. A new aspect of the application is the addition of a medical... Read more

Green light for hospital parking

Dara Gantly | 11 December 2008

The perennial problem of traffic congestion at University Hospital Galway (UHG) may be ‘parked’ for good following confirmation that the HSE is to proceed with the construction of a new 146-space car park and accompanying ring-road around the hospital campus.... Read more

New UL medical school planning granted

Dara Gantly | 04 December 2008

Clare County Council has granted planning permission to the University of Limerick (UL) to construct a new 4,295 sq metre, four-storey building to house its Graduate Entry Medical School. The building works – which includes the construction of a piazza... Read more

Building begins on Mater campus

Ian McGuinness | 04 December 2008

A contract has been awarded to a Dublin company to undertake preparatory work for the construction of the proposed Mater Hospital campus but the cost of this has not been revealed. Mater Campus Hospital Development Limited awarded the contract to... Read more

Holles St to re-submit planning application

Ian McGuinness | 03 December 2008

A plan to build a six storey extension at the National Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, to help it cope with its increasing number of patients, has been delayed because the planning application was declared invalid. Dublin City Council declared... Read more

Roscrea centre is 'better than nothing'

By Alan Deeley | 02 December 2008

The use of a former childcare centre in Roscrea to house another of the health service’s much trumpeted Primary Care Teams – instead of a Primary Care Centre as promised in the 2001 Strategy – is better than nothing, Health... Read more

Castleheaney medical centre plans invalid

Ian McGuinness | 21 November 2008

Plans to build a two-storey medical centre in Castleheaney in Dublin 15 were declared invalid last month by the local authority. Fingal County Council told Irish Medical Times that the reason it declared the proposal invalid was because there were... Read more

HSE to provide 30-bed unit for people with disabilities

By Ian McGuinness | 12 November 2008

Nearly €4.5 million is being spent by the Health Service Executive on a 30-bed unit in Cork for people with intellectual disabilities. A contract worth €4.44 million for building the facility was recently awarded to Walls Construction of Glounthane in... Read more

Objections hinder Phibsborough plan

Ian McGuinness | 15 October 2008

A proposed development in Phibsborough, Dublin 7, which would include 35 medical consultancy suites, has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. The applicant, Stateford Limited, received planning permission from Dublin City Council last month to build the development, which would... Read more

Planning application from Mater is invalid

10 October 2008

An attempt by the Mater Hospital to convert an old convent building, so that it could be used for the care of the elderly, has been declared invalid by Dublin City Council because of a technicality. The Council said that... Read more

IMT provides Univadis news

30 September 2008

Irish Medical Times has combined with univadis®, the unique online medical portal, to provide Irish doctors with access to the latest in Irish medical news stories via a news feed. The IMT news feed will allow doctors to keep up-to-date... Read more

Proposed health centre to be used as a bank

Ian McGuinness | 24 September 2008

A building in Limerick that was to have been used as a medical centre and a library is to be turned into a bank instead. Dunnes Stores Limited and Kaithal Limited were granted permission to change the use of the... Read more

Setback to plans for Portlaoise centre

Ian McGuinness | 01 September 2008

Plans for a single-storey medical centre in Portlaoise have been set back after a decision by the local council to grant permission was appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Tom and Deirdre Dwyer applied to Laois County Council for their planned... Read more

St Vincent's cancer unit opposed by Dublin 4 residents

Ian McGuinness | 27 August 2008

Planning permission for a cancer support unit for St Vincent’s University Hospital patients is being opposed by Dublin 4 residents. Two local residents have appealed Dublin City Council’s decision to grant permission, with conditions, to the hospital for the facility... Read more

Bord Pleanála to decide on supermarket health centre

By Ian McGuinness | 15 August 2008

Plans by Tesco Ireland Limited to create a medical centre in Waterford with 15 consulting rooms have ended up before An Bord Pleanála. The supermarket company applied to Waterford City Council in May for a substantial development at Ballybeg. The... Read more

CUH cardio-renal centre for 2010

By Greg Baxter | 15 August 2008

The new €85 million Cardiac/Renal Centre at Cork University Hospital is ahead of schedule and will be finished in 2010, the HSE has stated. Minister for Health, Mary Harney, was on hand to view the progress of the construction last... Read more

Inchicore to get new care centre

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008

Up to €11 million is to be spent on building a primary care centre in Inchicore in Dublin by the Health Service Executive.The HSE issued a tender for companies to apply to it if they want to build the centre,... Read more

Contract awarded on NPH services

By Ian McGuinness | 14 August 2008

A contract worth more than €28.75 million, to provide business services to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, has been awarded. The Board recently named the Dublin based companies Project Management Limited and Beauchamps Solicitors as the winners of the... Read more

Oireachtas Committee to review CMH move

Mary Anne Kenny | 31 July 2008

The Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children is to review the proposed move of the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) to a site adjacent to the planned prison site at Thorton Hall, north Dublin. A delegation from the Committee inspected... Read more

Permission sought for new Churchtown medical centre

Ian McGuinness | 30 July 2008

A planning application for new medical centre and pharmacy on the Churchtown Road in Dublin 14 has been submitted to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The applicants for the development, which would be located at the Texaco service station, are listed... Read more

Dublin 4 medical centre appealed to An Bord Pleanála

Ian McGuinness | 30 July 2008

An attempt to get planning permission for a medical centre and pharmacy in Dublin 4 has failed, but has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. The applicants — James Byrne, Michael McElligot, Peter Crowley and Neill Hughes — asked Dublin... Read more

Touchstone's planning problems delay centre

Ian McGuinness | 29 July 2008

Touchstone Healthcare’s initiative to build a primary care centre in Tipperary has run into planning difficulties, with appeals being made against Thurles Town Council’s decision to grant permission for the proposed development. While one appeal was declared invalid by An... Read more

Galway to get 20-bed psychiatric facility for children and teens

Ian McGuinness | 25 July 2008

Preparations are continuing for the construction of a new 20-bed in-patient psychiatric facility for children and adolescents in Galway. The HSE is now looking for a company or companies to build the facility at Merlin Park Hospital in the city.... Read more

No money, no co-location

Gary Culliton | 25 July 2008

Beacon Medical Group’s co-located hospital at the Mid-West Regional in Limerick is the first in the country to get a final grant of planning permission, after two appeals to An Bord Pleanála – one involving Socialist Party leader Joe Higgins... Read more

PSI to sell its D4 properties

Gary Culliton | 17 July 2008

The Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) is to dispose of two properties in Dublin and is seeking new office premises which are more ‘fit for purpose’. The PSI, the pharmacy regulator, owns its current property at 18 Shrewsbury Road, Ballsbridge,... Read more

IPHA Golf Classic to benefit Township Trust

11 June 2008

The 10th Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association (IPHA) Annual Charity Golf Classic will take place at the Glen of the Downs Golf Club, Delganey, Co. Wicklow on Thursday, 26 June. The proceeds of this year’s event will go to the Niall... Read more

Swords Clinic waiting for decision

Ian McGuinness | 10 June 2008

A planning application for a four-storey medical clinic in Swords is still awaiting a decision from Fingal County Council. The application by the Airside Clinic was submitted to the local authority in January and there have been no objections to... Read more

Ten-storey building gets the green light

Ian McGuinness | 05 June 2008

One of the proposed buildings in the Mater Hospital’s planned redevelopment can be three storeys higher, after planning permission was granted by Dublin City Council in late May. The hospital applied to revise planning permissions that it was previously granted,... Read more

New rehabilitation hospital for Dún Laoghaire?

By Ian McGuinness | 28 May 2008

The National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH) has said it is going to submit a planning application today for a new 235-bed facility in Dún Laoghaire. The new hospital, which will be situated on the NRH’s current campus on Rochestown Avenue, will... Read more

Hermitage gets 31 more beds in planning decision

Ian McGuinness | 15 May 2008

Hermitage Medical Developments Limited has won the right to add another 31 beds to its medical clinic on the Old Lucan Road in Dublin but it cannot create the extra 77 car parking spaces that it wanted. The company was... Read more

'Fair Deal' money should be used

Greg Baxter | 10 May 2008

Money earmarked for the State’s ‘Fair Deal’ plan on nursing homes should be released immediately to help fill an ‘unusually high number of vacancies’ that would normally be used by the HSE to relieve pressure on emergency departments, the CEO... Read more

OECD recommends two north-east hospitals

10 May 2008

Two hospitals are recommended for the north east in the recent Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development report. The report on reforming the public sector states that, regarding the transformation programme in the north east, primary care teams need to... Read more

20-bed adolescent service for Galway

Ian McGuinness | 10 May 2008

The Health Service Executive has said that it is going to begin a process that will lead to the construction of a 20-bed inpatient child and adolescent psychiatric building at Merlin Park Hospital in Galway. The HSE has said it... Read more

New consultation rooms for Dublin centre

30 April 2008

Seven medical consultation rooms are to be built on Ushers Quay in Dublin’s city centre, if a planning permission is granted. Mr Kajetan Baranowski has applied to Dublin City Council for permission to change the use of offices on the... Read more

Franciscans appeal conditions attached to medical centre decision

Ian McGuinness | 29 April 2008

The Franciscan Order in Dublin’s city centre has appealed conditions attached to a decision that granted them planning permission for medical services. The Franciscan Social Justice Initiative applied to Dublin City Council in March this year for permission to change... Read more

Planning granted for Mullingar health centre

Gary Culliton | 26 March 2008

Planning permission was last week granted for a medical centre of approx 460sq m in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath. The medical centre is located at first-floor level in Bennett Developments’ extensive new mixed-use urban and retail quarter. ‘The Well’ is the... Read more

Fine Gael criticises HSE midwest plan

Sandra Ryan | 05 March 2008

The HSE’s new plan to send all major trauma cases in the mid-west to Limerick Regional Hospital, and bypass Ennis General Hospital, was defended in the Dail after being criticised by Deputy Joe Carey (FG-Clare). “This proposed change, which is... Read more

Jobs freeze slows spread of PCTs

Ian McGuinness | 05 March 2008

Ian McGuinness says that over seven years ago, the Primary Care Strategy promised a network of primary care teams accross the country. But many have yet to materialise Where are the primary care centres that were promised under the Primary... Read more

New skills lab for St James's

Ian McGuinness | 19 February 2008

St James’s Hospital is to build a clinical skills laboratory in the basement of its mortuary building. It was granted permission for the development last month by Dublin City Council and the plans show that three rooms, each with a... Read more

Osteoporosis Society 'may have to close'

Sandra Ryan | 19 February 2008

The Irish Osteoporosis Society (IOS) will be forced to close without more funding, according to Deputy James Bannon (FG Longford-Westmeath). Deputy Bannon asked the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Máire Hoctor (FF Tipperary North) to make... Read more

New 75-bed Cork hospital to go ahead

Ian McGuinness | 01 February 2008

The building of a new hospital and hospice at Ballinaspig in County Cork is proceeding, with companies being invited to tender for the construction of the facility. Curraheen Hospital Limited, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of St Patrick’s Hospital... Read more

Abandoned psychiatric unit draws heavy criticism

Greg Baxter | 01 February 2008

The discovery that an acute psychiatric unit planned for Beaumont Hospital has been abandoned so that a new co-located hospital can be built has brought widespread condemnation. Last week the Irish Psychiatric Association published a damning report on the plundering... Read more

Planning applications for centres appealed

Ian McGuinness | 01 February 2008

Two Planning applications in Tipperary involving medical centres have been referred to An Bord Pleanála. The first application was for 32 dwellings and a commercial building at Knockanglass in Fethard. The medical centre was to be located in the commercial... Read more

Beacon application for cross-country expansion

Ian McGuinness | 25 January 2008

Specific details contained in three planning applications for co-located hospitals, which were submitted by Beacon Medical Limited, have been published by local authorities. At the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Dooradoyle, the company has applied to Limerick County Council for permission... Read more

Temple Street gets permission for clinic

Ian McGuinness | 25 January 2008

Temple Street Hospital has been granted permission to build a new two-storey outpatients clinic, but first it will have to pay almost €153,000 to Dublin City Council before it can begin construction. The hospital applied to the local authority for... Read more

St Vincent's gets planning go-ahead

Ian McGuinness | 25 January 2008

A huge inpatient building at St Vincent’s University Hospital has been given planning permission by Dublin City Council, in the face of objections from local residents. The hospital was given permission for an eight-storey building, five storeys of which will... Read more

Team placement for PET/CT scanner installation

Greg Baxter | 18 January 2008

A team has been created to oversee the introduction of PET/CT scanner at Cork University Hospital (CUH). The hospital is awaiting approval for planning permission for a building to house the scanner, a HSE spokesman told Irish Medical Times. IMT... Read more

College lecture-hall 'intrusion'

Ian McGuinness | 18 January 2008

The College of Anaesthetists has succeeded in overturning a decision by Dublin City Council that would have prevented it from building a lecture theatre and other educational facilities at its 18th-century building in the city centre. The College applied to... Read more

Private care home plans halted by ‘overbearing impact’ assessment

Ian McGuinness | 11 January 2008

Touchstone’s plans to develop its next primary care centre in Dublin received a serious setback after An Bord Pleanála refused permission for it to proceed with the development. A company called HHN Developments Drimnagh Limited applied to Dublin City Council... Read more

Nursing hospital in 100-bed boost

Ian McGuinness | 11 January 2008

A new 100-bed nursing unit will be built in north Dublin, after the local council gave permission for it to proceed. Dublin City Council granted permission, just before Christmas, to St Joseph’s Hospital in Raheny for the development. The two-storey... Read more

GPs merge for care centre

Ian McGuinness | 11 January 2008

A four-storey primary care centre in Mallow, which will cost more than €20 million to build, has been granted planning permission by Cork County Council. Three general practices in the town applied for permission, which was granted in mid December,... Read more

Touchstone plans rocked

Ian McGuinness | 11 January 2008

The first purpose built, Touchstone model, primary care centre in Dublin has been refused permission by An Bord Pleanála. A Touchstone primary care centre has been operating in Mulhuddart, Dublin 15, since 2004 but it was put into a building... Read more

Hospice fails to get planning for extension

Ian McGuinness | 14 December 2007

A planning application by the Galway Hospice Foundation Limited has been declared invalid by the city’s council. The hospice applied to the local authority for outline permission for a two storey over basement extension at its facility, which is located... Read more

Crumlin to get its ED extension by end 2008

Ian McGuinness | 30 November 2007

Crumlin Hospital has been granted planning permission for an extension to its Emergency Department, which is expected to be finished by the end of next year. Dublin City Council granted the hospital the right to proceed with the development earlier... Read more

Community nursing unit for St Joseph’s

Ian McGuinness | 09 November 2007

A 100-bed community nursing unit will be built by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in Dublin 5, if it gets planning permission from Dublin City Council. The HSE applied for permission to build the two-storey facility at St Joseph’s Hospital... Read more

Consultant’s rooms appeal rejected for public health reasons

Ian McGuinness | 09 November 2007

Prof John Crown has been refused planning permission by An Bord Pleanála for a development that would have included partially converting the ground floor of a house to medical consulting rooms. He applied to Dublin City Council for permission to... Read more

Private hospital plan granted then appealed

Ian McGuinness | 02 November 2007

A decision to grant conditional permission for the construction of a private hospital in Letterkenny has been appealed to An Bord Pleanála by the applicant. Northwest Healthcare Limited applied to Letterkenny Town Council in June for permission to construct the... Read more

Doctor wins right to open own pharmacy

Ian McGuinness | 26 October 2007

Part of a medical centre in Ballinasloe is to be turned into a pharmacy after the applicant for the proposed development appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Dr Eugene O’Beirne applied to Ballinasloe Town Council for permission to make the change... Read more

Crumlin Hospital seeks A&E overhaul

Ian McGuinness | 19 October 2007

Crumlin Hospital is to demolish and extend its A&E unit. The hospital applied to Dublin City Council earlier this month for permission to develop the unit, which is close to the main hospital entrance. When it is rebuilt, if its... Read more

St Vincent’s oil tank needs to be okayed by Chief Fire Officer

Ian McGuinness | 05 October 2007

St Vincent’s University Hospital will have to acquire and comply with the requirements of Dublin’s Chief Fire Officer before it can build a 96,000 litre oil tank and a 60,000 litre water storage tank at its Elm Park campus. The... Read more

Healthcare centre is likely to be built in Dublin 6 area

Ian McGuinness | 28 September 2007

A three-storey residence in Dublin 6 could be made into a healthcare centre. A planning application was submitted by Mr Dara Reynolds, seeking permission to change the use of the house at 74 Terenure Road East. It is also planned... Read more

Consultation rooms are set to become Lithuanian embassy

Ian McGuinness | 28 September 2007

A Dublin 4 house that was used as medical consulting rooms is to be converted into an embassy for the Republic of Lithuania, according to Dublin City Council documentation. According to documents in the planning file, Consultant Urologist, Mr Peter... Read more

Refurbishment for Crumlin Hospital

Ian McGuinness | 28 September 2007

Crumlin Hospital has new plans for its bone marrow transplant and oncology department. The Dublin 12 hospital recently applied to Dublin City Council for permission to demolish the existing facilities on site and replace them. The bone marrow transplant and... Read more

Tullamore development is set to proceed after objection is dropped

Ian McGuinness | 21 September 2007

The building of an acute hospital and primary care centre in Tullamore, Co Offaly can proceed after an objection to it was dropped. John Flanagan Developments Ltd was given planning permission for its proposal in July by Offaly County Council... Read more

Site could house 215 apartments

Ian McGuinness | 21 September 2007

Two hundred and fifteen apartments might be built on a site that was formerly part of St Joseph’s Hospital in Clonsilla in Dublin 15. Firth Developments Limited applied to Fingal County Council for permission to develop four blocks of apartments,... Read more

Primary care centre gets the go-ahead

Ian McGuinness | 21 September 2007

A primary care centre can be built in Mitchelstown in Co Cork, after an appeal by those opposed to it failed at An Bord Pleanála. The centre, which will be located over a basement car park, will also contain three... Read more

From medical centre to local takeaway

Ian McGuinness | 14 September 2007

A medical centre in north Dublin can be converted into a fast food takeaway after permission was granted for such a development by Fingal County Council. The applicants, Gary and Mark Fay, applied for permission for the development at Cruises... Read more

RCSI appeals council's application refusal

Ian McGuinness | 07 September 2007

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) has appealed a decision by Dublin City Council which has refused it planning permission to extend its education and research centre at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. The RCSI appealed this decision to An... Read more

Beaumont supports RCSI application

Ian McGuinness | 31 August 2007

Beaumont Hospital has said it now supports plans by the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) to expand its education and research centre at its Dublin 9 campus, even though the hospital had objected to the proposal. Irish Medical... Read more

New psych unit can go ahead without planning

Ian McGuinness | 31 August 2007

St Vincent’s Hospital in Fairview, Dublin has been told it doesn’t need planning permission for a new six-bed unit at the psychiatric institution. The hospital applied to Dublin City Council in June this year for planning permission for the development.... Read more

RCSI and Beaumont row

Ian McGuinness | 10 August 2007

A row between the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Beaumont Hospital has resulted in the medical education institution being refused planning permission for new teaching, research and laboratory facilities on the campus of its principal teaching hospital.... Read more

Cork GP wins right to build pharmacy

Ian McGuinness | 10 August 2007

A prominent Irish Medical Organisation activist has been successful in a planning dispute over the development of a pharmacy at his medical centre in Cork City. Dr Ronan Boland was granted permission by An Bord Pleanála to build an extension... Read more

St James’s extension likely to be permitted

Ian McGuinness | 10 August 2007

A new four-bed intensive care unit may be built at St James’s Hospital, after Dublin City Council granted planning permission for the new development. The hospital applied for permission to the local authority on 1 June this year and the... Read more

Extension to health centre is approved

Ian McGuinness | 10 August 2007

The Health Service Executive (HSE) has won the right to proceed with a single-storey extension to the health centre at St Joseph’s Hospital in Trim, even though a doctor working there challenged their plans. The HSE was granted permission by... Read more

Hermitage Clinic calls for facility extensions

Ian McGuinness | 03 August 2007

The Hermitage Medical Clinic wants to extend its facilities to allow another 31 inpatients at its facility. Hermitage Medical Developments Limited applied last month to South Dublin County Council for permission to build a one-storey extension to the clinic, which... Read more

Permission granted to medical centre is now under appeal

Ian McGuinness | 03 August 2007

Plans to develop a site in County Longford, which would include a new medical facility, have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Michael Prenty received planning permission from Longford County Council for his plans for the site on the Dublin... Read more

Medical surgery plan for Lusk is given green light

Ian McGuinness | 20 July 2007

Newly elected Fine Gael TD for Dublin North, and local general practitioner, Dr James Reilly, has applied for planning permission for an external sign on the medical centre in Station Road in Lusk. The application was submitted on 3 July.... Read more

Golfers fear hospital will eclipse course

Ian McGuinness | 20 July 2007

A golf club has told the local council of its fears that golfers could be affected by plans for an eight-storey inpatient ward building at St Vincent’s University Hospital in Dublin 4. An architect’s letter, on behalf of the Elm... Read more

Development at Mount Carmel gets permission

Ian McGuinness | 13 July 2007

A large development by Harlequin Healthcare at Mount Carmel Hospital has been given planning permission by the local council, although that decision could still be appealed to An Bord Pleanála. There were 20 objections and observations to the proposal, according... Read more

Archaeological findings may delay construction

Ian McGuinness | 13 July 2007

Any archaeological discoveries during construction work for an MRI research building at St James’s Hospital could slow down work on that project. A decision by Dublin City Council to grant planning permission for the facility, had four conditions attached to... Read more

Private cemetery is denied

Ian McGuinness | 06 July 2007

Attempts to build a private burial ground in Donegal have failed because An Bord Pleanála said it would be prejudicial to public health, even though the Health Service Executive (HSE) said it had no such concerns. Ulla and Wolfram Stumpf... Read more

Lecture theatre plan for Bord Pleanála

Ian McGuinness | 29 June 2007

The College of Anaesthetists has appealed to An Bord Pleanála after it was refused permission to build a lecture theatre at its Merrion Square premises, which is a protected building. The College applied to Dublin City Council in late March... Read more

Planning for new units goes ahead

Ian McGuinness | 22 June 2007

Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital is due to get a 10-bed isolation unit, after Fingal County Council granted it planning permission for the development. The board of management at the hospital received permission at the end of May to demolish two... Read more

Holles Street must be moved to St Vincent’s

Sandra Ryan | 22 June 2007

The Master and Deputy Chairman of the National Maternity Hospital, Holles St have said they hope the hospital is re-located to St Vincent’s University Hospital following the review of maternity services in Dublin, currently underway by the Health Service Executive... Read more

Objections are raised over Mt Carmel plans

Ian McGuinness | 15 June 2007

Twenty objections have been lodged in relations to Harlequin Healthcare’s plans for Mount Carmel Hospital, according to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. The Council told Irish Medical Times that this was the number of objections that had been lodged against the... Read more

St James’s developments stalled

Ian McGuinness | 08 June 2007

Plans for two important developments at St James’s Hospital in Dublin have been stalled after Dublin City Council declared both planning applications invalid. The first application, submitted on 30 April this year by the hospital’s board, sought permission to construct... Read more

St Vincent's seeks eight-storey ward

Ian McGuinness | 08 June 2007

An eight-storey inpatient ward building is to be constructed at St Vincent’s University Hospital, if it receives planning permission from Dublin City Council. In a recent application to the local authority, the hospital explained that it wanted to put 120... Read more

Crumlin seeks review

Sandra Ryan | 08 June 2007

Crumlin Children’s Hospital in Dublin is strongly considering re-entering development plans for the new national children’s hospital, which they pulled out of in January due to their disagreement with the Health Service Executive’s (HSE) Transition Group over the hospital’s location.... Read more

New private hospital at St Vincent’s appealed

Ian McGuinness | 01 June 2007

Plans for a 260-bed private hospital at the St Vincent’s University Hospital site have been appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Two people have appealed Dublin City Council’s decision to grant the St Vincent’s Healthcare Group planning permission for the new... Read more

Thirty nine suites planned for new consultants' clinic

Ian McGuinness | 25 May 2007

A consultants’ clinic with dozens of suites is to be built in north Dublin City, if the applicants get permission to proceed with it. J and M Eustace applied to Dublin City Council for planning permission at the Highfield site... Read more

RCSI and Beaumont clash over plans for College facilities

Ian McGuinness | 25 May 2007

The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and Beaumont Hospital have clashed over plans by the former to extend their educational and research facilities on the campus of the latter. The RCSI applied to Dublin City Council for permission... Read more