RefusedDecided 22 January 2021Wicklow County Council

66A-66E Upper Dargle Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow

Planning application 201181
DecisionRefused
Decided22 January 2021
Application typeRETENTION
Source documents3

Site

What is on file

4refusal reasons0conditions8nearby records

Proposed development

Application description published by Wicklow County Council.
Material change of use of unit numbers now entitled 66A - 66C from industrial-part retail to residential usage of each of them in the form of three self contained dwelling-houses and the sub-division of the established single dwelling-house positioned at the western end of this block of buildings, into two separate dwelling-houses now entitled numbers 66D/66E

Application and appeal history

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Decision details

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Planning analysis

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Refusal reasons

Residential Amenity

None of the units provide the required private open space, breaching CDP design standards.

Wicklow CDP 2016-2022 Appendix 1 (Design Standards)
None of the units are provided with any form of private open space. The development is not in accordance with the standards of the CDP.
Traffic Sightlines

Failure to provide on-site parking results in uncontrolled street parking and a traffic hazard on a regional road.

Wicklow CDP 2016-2022 Appendix 1 (Parking Standards)
The failure to provide on site parking is not in accordance with the CDP standards... results in uncontrolled parking on the road and this results in traffic hazard.
Zoning Contravention

Development creates a standalone, haphazard and piecemeal scheme that compromises coordinated site development and injures residential amenity.

Bray MD LAP 2018 - RE Existing Residential Zoning Objective
proposed development would result in the creation of a standalone, haphazard and piecemeal development, which would compromise the sustainable and co-ordinated development of the overall site and would injure the residential amenities of the area.
Traffic Sightlines

Endangers public safety due to serious traffic hazard from uncontrolled parking on a busy regional road.

General planning principles / CDP traffic standards
The proposed development would endanger public safety by reason of serious traffic hazard because the failure to provide a satisfactory form of on site parking... results in haphazard uncontrolled parking on the Upper Dargle Road, which interferes with the freeflow and safety of the Upper Dargle Road.

Conditions

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Inside the decision file

Extracts from the council's own decision documents for this application — 8 pages of searchable text on file.
Chief Executives Order1 page indexed
WI W COUNTY UNCIL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT ACTS 2000 (as amended) Director of Services Order No lt5l202l y! Reference Number 20/1181 nl O Name of Applicant es Bobdan Holdings Ltd Address: c/o BBA Architecture os Suite 3 Eden Gate Centre rp Delgany Pu Co. Wicklow Nature of Application: RETENTION for material change of...
Planners Report7 pages indexed
WICKLOW COUNTY COUNCIT y! PIANNING DEPARTMENT nl O PRR 201778t NAME Bobdan Holdings Ltd es DEVELOPMENT Retention of material change of use of unit numbers now entitled 66A - 66C from industrial-part retail to residential usage of each of them in the form of os three self contained dwelling-houses and the sub-division...
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Source documents

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