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Mon 08 Aug 2007Plan for Dublin city site inappropriate, says An TaiscePlans to develop a State-owned site on Dublin's Harcourt Terrace for two office blocks and two apartment buildings, rising to a height of nine storeys, are "wholly inappropriate" in scale for this sensitive location, according to An Taisce."Harcourt Terrace is a unique environment in the city, defined by the rare and intact Regency houses, with centrepiece, on its west side," it said. "Unfortunately, the proposed building is . . . in no way sympathetic to the sensitive historic environment of the terrace."