Archer’s Garage

Dellyberg properties (i.e. O’Callaghan Group) have applied to remove the circular column from the forecort area of (as described in the application – “the corner of Sandwith Street and Fenian Street”) i.e. Archer’s Garage and add door/glazing to the forecourt.

Now is this going to change the appearance of this building dramatically or what – the central pillar is what makes Archer’s in my opinion, with it’s almost cog like expression. Anyone who cares to object to this should contact Dublin City Council.

I don’t think this permission will be granted after all the effort involved in getting the building reinstated. I was never a great fan of Archer’s Garage but I think the central pillar is probably its only defining feature. The whole purpose of the exercise would be defeated is this were granted.

Just a point when you include the link to DCC planning site.
Was there a ruling from Europe recently that the €20 fee for objections was in fact illegal? Do you thing this is a good or bad thing?

This was introduced to reduce the number of spurious objections. I never saw any statistics to indicate if it reduced the amount of rejected objections compared to objections upheld. I suspect that apart from being a ‘nice little earner’ it didn’t meet it’s own questionable aims and only limited participation in the planning process. I hope it gets done away with.
One practice that is encouraged by the charge is that groups of residents get together and one of them files an objection on the street or areas behalf.
Unfortunately it has happened that then just before the review, the person who’s name is on the objection is offered a sum to personally drop the objection. If they do, it is too late for any of those who felt also represented by the objection to file a further objection as its past the five weeks…
The charge stinks and I hope it gets dropped.

Just to add that Art Deco former garage building in Phibsboro has been given a make over.
I heard it was opening up as a night club place.
See too that the booths are being installed on Capel Street Bridge.
First impressions ….they make the bridge rather cluttered.

Before

Today

Well he has replaced it – just replaced an original with a bad facsimile……

Archer’s garage rebuilt after razing
Marie O’Halloran

Five years after it was illegally demolished on a bank holiday weekend, Archer’s garage on Fenian Street in Dublin has finally been rebuilt.
The razing of the distinctive late 1940s art deco building, demolished over the June bank holiday in 1999, provoked huge controversy and its reconstruction became a long, torturous and disputed process.

The new version is a gleaming white building with significant glass frontage, attached to an office block development and adjacent apartment block at the site near Merrion Square.

Before the former garage was razed it was the only surviving building on a largely derelict site.

IIB Bank is scheduled to move in at the end of October, and two final planning permission applications are outstanding – for signs, flagpoles, a clock and a 1.8 metre-high glass screen at roof level on the former garage and adjoining offices.

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2004/0809/1722913933HM4ARCHERS.html

Archer’s looks well but the steel windows haven’t been put back on the 1st floor. It’s the same glazing pattern but the material is some kind of coated metal (could it really be PVC coating??).

Incidentally, it was Ian Lumley of An Taisce who got Archer’s listed, as part of a submission to the 1998 draft Dublin City Development Plan, recommending hundreds of buildings for listing (as it was then). The submission was made under the Dublin Civic Trust, a company set up by An Taisce.

It should be a massive fine, as that €13m will probably remove the profit