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The ESB has been denied permission to convert its Georgian house museum in Dublin into three luxury apartments.
An Taisce, Dublin Civic Trust and the Irish Georgian Society had opposed the plan.
In their ruling, Dublin City Council planners stated: “The proposal would reduce the range of cultural and tourist activities in the city center and would set an undesirable precedent for the loss of more cultural facilities in the city.”
The museum, which recreates a Georgian house in Dublin, was opened by ESB at 29 Fitzwilliam Street in 1991, during Dublin’s year as European Capital of Culture.
The building was one of several restored by the ESB in 1988.
It was next to the original ESB headquarters building, which was designed by architect Sam Stephenson and sparked a lot of controversy in 1965 when several Georgian buildings were demolished to make way for it.
The demolition breached the “Georgian mile” of historic buildings along Fitzwilliam Street Upper and Lower.
The ESB headquarters is being remodeled as part of a massive new office development in two blocks.
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