Image: Alamy Stock Photo Image: Alamy Stock Photo THE DENIS O’BRIEN controlled Beacon Hospital has secured the green light for an €75 million eight storey extension.
The planning application involves the substantive demolition of the eight storey Beacon Hotel which the Beacon Hospital purchased late in 2020 from US billionaire, John Malone’s MHL Collection luxury hotel group. In the latest submission, consultants for the apartment owners, BPS Planning Consultants re-iterated the apartment owners’ call to refuse planning permission.
Home owner at the Beacon Apartment, Jennifer Clarke stated that she purchased her apartment on the basis that it be maintained and would permanently retain the existing access arrangements. Outlining the need for the development, planning consultants for the Beacon stated that the hospital has undergone significant exponential growth particularly in the last seven years due to the increase in demand across all specialities.
The report contended: “In order to provide additional sustainable and adequate clinical care Beacon Hospital needs to provide more patient beds.”
€75million but it could be €3billion when it is completed.
Private ...hmmmm