Ali Hewson wins planning battle over Killiney luxury house scheme
Ali Hewson and other Killiney residents have won their planning battle to halt a luxury residential scheme for the grounds of Montebello House.
This follows Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council refusing planning permission to Covelo Developments Ltd to construct four “very large” two-storey four-bedroom flat-roofed houses for Killiney Hill Road, Killiney.
The Council refused planning permission after the wives of U2 band members, Bono and The Edge, Ali Hewson and Morleigh Steinberg lodged objections against the scheme.
In total, 37 submissions were lodged by local residents with the Council. However, the objectors’ planning win comes with a sting in the tail.
The Council has refused planning permission not due to objectors’ grounds over loss of privacy, overshadowing, negative visual impact and impact on the local character of the area.
Instead, the Council has refused planning on the sole ground that Covelo Developments Ltd didn’t plan more residential units for the…
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