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A huge skyscraper project for Dublin has been rejected by the Irish Planning Board on appeal, in a decision that has major implications for future high-rise development in the city.The IR#1.2 billion development for Dublin's docklands was designed by the award- winning Irish-American architect Kevin Roche. It included nine office blocks rising to 24 storeys - more than twice the height of Dublin's tallest building, Liberty Hall.Three planning board inspectors ruled last week that the skyscrapers "would constitute an inappropriate form of urban development for Dublin". The board added that the scheme would block daylight from the homes of local residents and would interfere with the skyline view of the city's "Golden Mile", an area with buildings of historic and architectural importance.The ruling will have to be considered by Dublin Corporation planners when assessing future high-rise developments. It has already commissioned the London-based architectural and planning consultant DEGW to prepare a study on high-rise development in the city.The rejection of the docklands project, the largest in the state's history, has been hailed by conservationists as "a good day for Dublin". But the developers' consortium insists it is not being abandoned, and that revised plans will now be prepared.