Permission granted to Naas hotel to undertake massive €21M upgrade

Lawlor's Hotel in the centre of Naas is set to be given a massive facelift after the Kildare County Council granted planning permission to Marchford Ltd to undertake upgrade works that will cost in the region of €21 million.

The plans were lodged last June and were eventually granted this week by the council, though it is unknown when the work will commence on the extension.

Developers will knock a two-storey dwelling house and sheds at the rear of the existing hotel to facilitate the massive extension that will consist of five floors.

The main part of the upgrade will include the construction of a new reception, lounge and bar that will total 260 sq metres, while new conference and function rooms that will be 465 sq metres in size will also be built. A large new breakfast room(328 sq metres) and a garden room(183.5 sq metres) are also detailed in the upgrade plans.

The five-storey hotel extension will cover a massive 11,520 sq metres of space altogether, and there will be 80 new bedrooms added to the accommodation space as a result. A new link corridor will connect the existing part of the hotel to the new construction, while residents will be catered for with a new kitchen, service areas and toilets.

The most interesting aspect of the new development will be on the fourth floor where a 'Sky restaurant' will be constructed along with a new kitchen at that level. Along with the development of the hotel itself, there will also be a new landscaped garden area and the construction of 140 new parking spaces to cope with the anticipated increase in demand at the hotel.

It will bring the total number of rooms at Lawlor's to 140 and extend the size of the premises to 17,832.5 sq metres.