Decision due on Dromineer hotel plan
Tipperary Co Council is to issue a decision this month on an exciting redevelopment plan for the former Dromineer Bay Hotel site.
The council recently received further information from Dromineer Bay Developments Limited on plans for the long-derelict site. The developer is planning to demolish the old hotel and provide for a mixed-use commercial and tourism enterprise with short-stay tourism accommodation.
A new two-storey mixed use building is to be constructed comprising of event spaces with ancillary reception/lobby, office, bar, kitchen and associated stores and WC facilities.
Also planned is a tourism-related retail/commercial space; a restaurant with associated kitchen, stores, staff-changing and WC; a retail unit, café and external terrace, and new accommodation intended for tourism use associated with the proposed events spaces and the existing holiday home complex (‘Waterside Cottages’).
The accommodation is to comprise of six one-bed, two-storey terrace units and 14 one-bed apartments.
Further elements of the plan include modifications to the internal access road, parking and amenity area arrangements; construction of new vehicular access from the public road (R495) with provision of additional parking, and reconfiguration of the existing car parking area associated with the former hotel.
The planning application was accompanied by several reports including a Natura Impact Statement, archaeological assessment, and bat report. The council received a submission from local residents Maura and Charles Fitzgerald, welcoming the planned development and asking that access be maintained to the nearby Lough Derg Yacht Club and the RNLI lifeboat base.
The council requested the developer to submit further information in relation to drainage and details of roads, footpaths, walls and signage. Revised plans and elevations were also sought, as well as further details in relation to the design of the apartments.
Dromineer Bay Developments has now furnished the requested information to the council.
A decision on the application is due on or before November 22.