oktobergirl
Refugee
Here's the article. What I find funny, is that this article ( and who knows how reliable it is) says that their current home is only 570 sq meters. Unless I don't know how to convert meters to feet, isn't that 1570 sq feet? Jeez! My place is almost that big!! If that's true, for goodness sake, they've got six people they DO need a bigger house!
June 6, 2002
From The Irish Times:
June 6, 2002
Bono and Ali get go-ahead to extend their Killiney home
By EDEL MORGAN
U2 Front man Bono and his wife Ali Hewson - the Chernobyl and Sellafield
campaigner - have been granted planning permission with revised
conditions by An Bord Pleanala for an extension to their home, Temple Hill
on Vico Road, Killiney, Co Dublin.
An Taisce appealed an earlier decision by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County
Council to grant permission with conditions for a three-storey extension
with a two-storey corridor link to the existing house.
It raised concerns about the size of the proposed development, its high
visibility from the seaward side, the demolition of the original entrance porch
and overlooking on other properties from the proposed first-floor terrace.
Temple Hill is a three-storey 570 sq m 19th century house standing on an
irregular-shaped sloping site of 14,107 sq m.
The Hewsons' proposal is to remove the existing upper ground floor entrance
porch and steps on the northern elevation and build a glazed corridor
link.
The three-storey extension will be 243 sq m comprising two bedrooms, a
utility room, stores, office and a studio with a terrace.
An Taisce said the development would read as "a doubling" of the width of
the house on its seaward elevation, "which is very visible from Killiney
Beach and Station Road, Killiney."
It also objected to the demolition of the entrance porch "which is part of
the original house built in the 1860s and superior in design to the entrance
porch from the Vico Road facade."
They said that the terrace at first-floor level would overlook the rear of the
neighbouring houses to the north across the lane.
CMB design group, on behalf of the Hewsons, countered that the extension
was needed because the applicant's family had increased and its total area
covered only 3.3 per cent of the site.
It says that Temple Hill is not a protected structure.
The neighbouring house to the north across the lane is owned by the
Hewsons, and that knocking the north porch is the "best architectural solution"
and is a secondary entrance, according to the architects, who argued there was
no provision in the development plan "that an extension should be invisible"
and that the proposed extension would be to the north of the house and so
mostly screened by the house itself "which is only visible from a limited
number of places to the south".
In her report, An Bord Pleanala inspector Rosemarie McLaughlin concluded
that "The proposed extension is clearly linked to the main house and the
proposed uses of the rooms do not indicate that it is a separate or
self-contained building in any way. Accordingly, I consider that the site is capable
of absorbing the proposed development without any detrimental effect to
the overall area."
June 6, 2002
From The Irish Times:
June 6, 2002
Bono and Ali get go-ahead to extend their Killiney home
By EDEL MORGAN
U2 Front man Bono and his wife Ali Hewson - the Chernobyl and Sellafield
campaigner - have been granted planning permission with revised
conditions by An Bord Pleanala for an extension to their home, Temple Hill
on Vico Road, Killiney, Co Dublin.
An Taisce appealed an earlier decision by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County
Council to grant permission with conditions for a three-storey extension
with a two-storey corridor link to the existing house.
It raised concerns about the size of the proposed development, its high
visibility from the seaward side, the demolition of the original entrance porch
and overlooking on other properties from the proposed first-floor terrace.
Temple Hill is a three-storey 570 sq m 19th century house standing on an
irregular-shaped sloping site of 14,107 sq m.
The Hewsons' proposal is to remove the existing upper ground floor entrance
porch and steps on the northern elevation and build a glazed corridor
link.
The three-storey extension will be 243 sq m comprising two bedrooms, a
utility room, stores, office and a studio with a terrace.
An Taisce said the development would read as "a doubling" of the width of
the house on its seaward elevation, "which is very visible from Killiney
Beach and Station Road, Killiney."
It also objected to the demolition of the entrance porch "which is part of
the original house built in the 1860s and superior in design to the entrance
porch from the Vico Road facade."
They said that the terrace at first-floor level would overlook the rear of the
neighbouring houses to the north across the lane.
CMB design group, on behalf of the Hewsons, countered that the extension
was needed because the applicant's family had increased and its total area
covered only 3.3 per cent of the site.
It says that Temple Hill is not a protected structure.
The neighbouring house to the north across the lane is owned by the
Hewsons, and that knocking the north porch is the "best architectural solution"
and is a secondary entrance, according to the architects, who argued there was
no provision in the development plan "that an extension should be invisible"
and that the proposed extension would be to the north of the house and so
mostly screened by the house itself "which is only visible from a limited
number of places to the south".
In her report, An Bord Pleanala inspector Rosemarie McLaughlin concluded
that "The proposed extension is clearly linked to the main house and the
proposed uses of the rooms do not indicate that it is a separate or
self-contained building in any way. Accordingly, I consider that the site is capable
of absorbing the proposed development without any detrimental effect to
the overall area."
