The council gave the development of four apartments the green light.
Musician are warning that new apartments on Grafton Street will destroy the busking culture.
Andy Kavanagh from the band KeyWest says livelihoods are on the line.
He’s raising concerns about proposed apartments on Grafton Street and the impact they’ll have on musicians.
Four new apartments have been given the go ahead at address numbers four and five, and now music industry reps are worried that the sounds of live performances on the street could lead to complaints by potential new residents.
Andy wants Grafton Street to stay as it is.
“Keep Grafton Street for retail, keep it for music, keep it for people to come in and enjoy, for tourists to come in and enjoy.
“There's nowhere else really in Dublin to go busking.
“I mean, you can try and do it on Henry Street, but be honest with you, most buskers will learn a lesson very quickly if you busk on Henry Street, most of the time, you're gonna get your money robbed. You're gonna get your gear damaged.
“So people gravitate towards Grafton Street, where it's a bit safer, and even then, we still get death threats.
Franceso Parodi works as a full time busker and only performs of Grafton Street.
He moved here from Chile to pursue music and he says if busking was banned on the famous street, it would lose its atmosphere:
“If you walk around Grafton Street without music, it just feels like death. It says nothing happening.
“The whole soul of the street is the music, and people don't realize that until they don't have it anymore.
Andy says they will appeal the decision by Dublin City Council:
“We’ll appeal. I know Dubliners are sick of just being walked on by massive companies, and I'd like to see people take some action.
“Let somebody know that you're not happy about it.
“Let the planning boards know, let Discover Ireland know that you want to protect the culture.
“They'll brush it off, but the reality is, if these apartments go in, the next thing they'll do is look for the next property on the street, and pretty soon, three or four years from now, we won't have street performers in Dublin anymore.
“It'll be a dead corporate city.”
Around 600 city centre busking applications were lodged last year.
