D4 residents fear Google’s pub plan will mean increase in public urination

Last month, Google Ireland Ltd lodged plans with the council to change a permitted use of ‘retail, cafe, restaurant, marketplace’ to that of ‘public house’ for the ground floor and lower ground floor of Unit 3 Building B at Google’s Boland’s Mill campus on Ringsend Rd, Dublin 4.

Planning consultant for Google Ireland, John Spain, has told the council that the application is being made “in response to active interest from a public house operator and a recent change in the tenancy mix to contribute to the overall vitality mix of the wider uses of Boland’s Quay”.

In the 13-page planning report, Mr Spain has argued that the public house use “will assist in enhancing the vitality and attractiveness of the overall scheme as a destination for visitors as well as local residents”.

However, in an objection on behalf of seven households on Barrow Street, architect Patrick Lynch is objecting to the proposal on a number of grounds.

Mr Lynch states that one of those is “the…