RefusedDecided 19 February 2021Wicklow County Council

Greenwood Cottage, Church Lane, Newcastle Upper

Planning application 201321
DecisionRefused
Decided19 February 2021
Application typeRETENTION
Source documents3

Site

What is on file

3refusal reasons0conditions8nearby records

Proposed development

Application description published by Wicklow County Council.
Change of use from children's den to habitable use for commercial short term letting

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Planning analysis

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Refusal reasons

Traffic Sightlines

Site accessed via a seriously substandard, unsurfaced minor laneway inadequate in width, alignment, and structural condition, lacking pedestrian facilities and served by substandard junctions. Generated traffic would endanger public safety.

Wicklow County Development Plan (Tourism & Recreation Objectives T1, T3, T13)
location of the development on a seriously substandard and unsurfaced minor laneway, which is inadequate in width, alignment and structural condition... would endanger public safety by reason of traffic hazard.
Design

Proposed purpose-built log cabin for short-term letting in a rural area, removed from necessary services and facilities, constitutes haphazard tourism development contrary to CDP objectives requiring new holiday homes to locate within established settlements or tourism facilities.

Wicklow County Development Plan (Tourism & Recreation Objectives T1, T2, T3, T10, T13)
proposed development would result in a haphazard tourism development that would be contrary to the Tourism and Recreation objectives of the Wicklow County Development Plan
Wastewater Percolation

Lack of information on the existing on-site wastewater treatment system regarding adequate design and size to serve both the existing dwelling and the proposed letting unit. Assessment would be prejudicial to public health without this information.

EPA Code of Practice for Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems Serving Single Houses (2009); NSAI SR6:1997
lack of information submitted in relation to the existing on-site wastewater treatment and disposal system... To consider this development in the absence of the required information would be prejudicial to public health

Conditions

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Inside the decision file

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Chief Executives Order1 page indexed
C PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT ACTS 2000 (as amended) Director of Services Order No: 271t2021 y! Reference Number: 20/1321 nl O Name of Applicant es Caroline & John Carter Address: clo clo Patrick Fortune, os No 3 Meadowbrook Kilcoole rp Co. Wicklow. Pu Nature of Application g RETENTION for change of use from children,s den...
Planners Report8 pages indexed
WICKTOW COUNTY COUNCII Pla nni ng Depairtment- Development Management TO: Breege Kilkenny, Director Of Services EdelBermingham, SEP From Lucy Roche, Executive Planner y! Ref: zOlLtzL nl Name: C&J Carter O Type: Retention Proposal: Change of use from children's den to habitable use for commercial s se short term...
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Source documents

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