Dublin City Council plans to introduce special planningrestrictions to the entire south city retail quarter stretching fromDawson Street to George's Street, to rid the area of fast-foodoutlets and mobile phone shops.
Councillors will vote tonight on a proposal to make the capital'spremier shopping district an architectural conservation area with aview to introducing special planning controls to ban certainenterprises.
The conservation area boundary will extend east-west from DawsonStreet to George's Street South and north-south from Nassau Streetto St Stephen's Green.
Grafton Street, the central spine of the quarter was designatedan architectural conservation area last July.
The designation protects the "setting and exterior appearance ofstructures" and bans certain types of shops from setting up atground floor level on some of the streets in the area and limitstheir number in less prominent streets.
Banned and restricted shops would include internet cafes, callcentres, bookmakers, takeaways, off-licences, amusement arcades, carrentals and financial institutions. Applications for such shops onnon-ground floor level would be considered on their merits.
Other non-retail uses such as cafes, pubs and restaurants wouldbe considered as long as the "primary retail function" of the streetwas not undermined.
The designation would protect and enhance the "specialarchitectural character of these historic Georgian streetscapes",the council said.
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