The owners of the derelict house where schoolgirl Ana Kriegel was murdered have axed plans for a nursing home on the site.
There were also delays in securing Glenwood House due to the “notoriety” of the property, internal records reveal.
Ana’s body was discovered at the abandoned building in Lucan, inner west Dublin, on May 17, 2018 – the 14-year-old had been brutally attacked and sexually assaulted.
Two teenagers, identified in court only as Boy A and Boy B, were convicted of her murder in June last year.
Fingal County Council repeatedly had to make contact with planning consultants for the owners of the house about their plans to secure the property.
Records also show that proposals to develop a nursing home on the site are now highly unlikely with the developers intending to seek planning permission for a different scheme.
The council got in touch with planning consultants for the owners of Glenwood in late July last year saying they had agreed to provide a written programme of works within two weeks of a meeting held on July 15.
An official wrote: “Please submit same as soon as possible and the local authority will revert to you following consideration of the proposals.
“Further dialogue with you and the owners will be necessary before a programme of works can be agreed.”
By August 23, the council appeared to be growing impatient but said it could extend the deadline to August 30.
On August 28, the developers of the site wrote back to apologise for not having been in contact “sooner”.
An email sent to the council said: “It has taken some time to put a team together for this; the main reason being the time of year with many consultants on annual leave and another factor is the notoriety of the site.”
In December, the council was told works would be 90% completed by Christmas. According to the records, the meeting heard that if works were not completed to the council’s satisfaction, further inspections would take place.
Officials also asked if there had been any progress on plans to develop the nursing home at the site, which was granted planning permission in 2017.
The meeting note said: “[They] advised that there are no plans to submit a commencement notice on this permission and that a new planning permission is under consideration and preparation.”
In a statement, Fingal County Council said: “The property is in private ownership and is a protected structure.
“Significant stabilisation and protection works to the historic buildings have taken place along with site security and tidy-up works in a programme… agreed with the Council.”
Sherborough Property, which has owned the site since the early 2000s, did not respond to a request for comment.
