A British-based developer has been granted planning permission to build a hotel in Aungier Street in Dublin.
The building will be designed by Cantrell and Crowley Architects and will include serviced apartments as well as a bar, restaurant, and health and wellness centre which will form an annex to the Marlin Hotel currently under construction.
The 300 bedroom hotel will be opening on July 19 creating 110 new jobs.
Meanwhile another British property developer is set to build a set of co-living apartments in Dublin over the next two years.
The Collective secured a site in the Fumbally Lane area of the liberties region of Dublin on Friday.
James Penfold, the company’s communications director, said: “Our typical amenity spaces include fitness and wellness facilities, lounges, event spaces, cinema rooms, co-working space and libraries.
“All of our co-living rooms include private kitchenettes and en-suite bathrooms, with further high specification shared kitchens provided throughout the building.”
The company currently has a global development pipeline of 7,500 co-living rooms with 1,600 currently operational.
Mr Penfold added: “Our flagship project in London, The Collective Old Oak, is the largest co-living development in the world comprising of 546 rooms and has been 98% occupied for the past three years since it opened.
“We’re excited to build our flagship Dublin project in a community as rich as the Liberties.
“It reflects who we are as a company and our founding ethos of providing a space for locals to live and grow together, to harbour great thinking and provide a space for nearby companies to use.”
Earlier this month, a planning application submitted by Bartra Capital Property group for 208 bed spaces to be built on the old CBS site in central Dun Laoghaire came under fire.
The application, that could see up to 42 residents sharing a kitchen, was defended by Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy.
He told the National Housing Conference on Monday that people should be excited by having "less space for less rent" and said how similar complexes have worked well in London and New York.
Murphy came under heavy criticism following the comments with Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald slamming the proposal as “bonkers”.
Ms McDonald said: “This bonkers proposal is not the solution to the rental crisis. It amounts to modern day tenement living.”
