Management at South Dublin County Council has defended its proposal to rezone a site at CityWest Hotel in Saggart to facilitate the completion of a conference centre which had been partially built without planning permission and was threatened with demolition.
The building, owned by property developer Jim Mansfield, is the subject of enforcement proceedings by the council after work began on it before it had full planning approval.
However, despite the enforcement proceedings, the council has also now given an undertaking not to take any action to force Mr Mansfield to take down the structure pending the outcome of a judicial review into its planning status.
The rezoning proposal, made by council management, is included in a list of proposed amendments to the council's draft development plan published yesterday.
Councillors have approved the amendment and will make a final decision on the zoning by December.
