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Site planning risk brief

Unit 7 Waterford Retail Park (formerly Butlerstown Retail Park) , Outer Ring Road , Cork Road

One-off house / within 5 km where a location match is available

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Local planning pattern

12% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 1,397 decisions within 5 km, 3 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 89 structured appeals.

Matched source
1884
Project type
One-off house
Coverage
5 km radius

What this site brief can substantiate today

Each section reports its own coverage, per county. “Not yet covered” means the source dataset is not loaded for this local authority, so the brief draws no conclusion there and says where to check — it never reads as “no constraint found”.

Applications tied to the site

Partial coverage

3 register records are within the point-match tolerance; a parcel boundary is needed to treat this as exact.

3 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Waterford City and County Council and were intersected with the site; settlement boundary is not loaded and no conclusion is drawn for it.

1 matched

Rural-housing policy

Not yet covered

No verified rural-housing citation is loaded for Waterford City and County Council, so this brief makes no current policy claim and relies on decision history.

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

2 of 4 layers are loaded for Waterford City and County Council and were intersected with the site; flood and built heritage are not loaded and no conclusion is drawn for them.

2 matched

Access, road and wastewater prompts

Partial coverage

0 prompts are backed by extracted nearby decision evidence; all prompts remain checks, not predictions.

Structured appeal history

Confirmed coverage

89 structured nearby appeal records.

89 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

No current-dated citation is loaded for Waterford City and County Council. Historic references extracted from decisions are never presented as current policy.

1,397Nearby applications
3Site-linked candidates
12%Nearby refused
89Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

1884

The amalgamation of Units 5, 6, 7, 8 and part of Unit 9 (units permitted under Ref. 06/522; 06/2026 to form one single unit (now known as Unit 7), internal modifications, and the provision of two mezzanine floors within this amalgamated unit, associated signage and all associated works

Granted0.0 km21 August 2018
19194

For the provision of a mezzanine floor, associated stair cores, lift and ancillary staff area, elevational modifications for proposed fire exits, associated signage and all associated works

Granted0.0 km16 May 2019
20930

For the proposed change of use of this retail warehouse unit to use as a gym, the provision of a mezzanine floor, associated stair cores, gym user facilities and ancillary staff areas to facilitate this change of use, elevational modifications, associated signage and all associated works at

Granted0.1 km09 February 2021
2460803

Development that consist of a single storey drive-thru restaurant including the ancillary sale of hot food for consumption off the premises with an associated corral area, elevational signage, car parking including accessible parking spaces, grill bays, EV charging spaces, bicycle parking, a height restrictor, customer order points with associated canopies, totem signage, free-standing signage, banner frames and digital menu boards, ESB substation and kiosk, landscaping including outdoor furniture/seating area with parasols, boundary treatments, lighting, PV panels at roof level, reconfiguration of part of existing car park to facilitate the development including new pedestrian crossings, and all associated site and engineering works necessary to facilitate the development.

Granted0.1 km24 February 2025
18300

Development consisting of the construction of a standalone café/restaurant unit with an overall height of c.4.5m and a gross floor area of 232 sq.m to be located within the central section of the car park. The proposal includes signage for the unit, associated outdoor seating area, bin store, landscaping and all associated site works on the 0.0766 ha site

Granted0.2 km26 June 2018
22936

(1) an extension to the existing retail park development (totalling 9147sqm gross floor area) comprising 5 no. retail warehouse units (Units 9-13 inclusive) ranging from 800sqm. to 2050sqm. and including an outdoor garden centre with Unit 12; a specialist sports and leisure retail unit (Unit 14) of 2250sqm. for sale and display of a range of bulky and non-bulky sporting, recreation and leisure related products and ancillary goods and including an outdoor display/exhibition area; (2) a standalone 3 storey building to accommodate office and/or medical related uses with all associated ancillary accommodation (totalling 3317sqm. gross floor area). Access will be from the existing Waterford Retail Park access on the Outer Ring Road through the existing car park and permission is sought to extend and complete the existing car park to provide an additional 123no. parking spaces and 2 no motorcycle spaces (resulting in 997 spaces in total for the Waterford Retail Park development). Permission is also sought for all associated site and development works including service road, service yards, hard and soft landscaping totem sign and building mounted signage, PV solar panels ESB substation (28sqm) and bicycle parking facilities for staff and customers. A ten year permission is sought to facilitate the phasing of development

Granted0.2 km20 December 2022

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 1,397 matched decisions within 5 km and includes up to 80 detailed comparables (40 nearest refusals and 40 nearest grants), with extracted reasons, quotes, and available source links. €39 incl. VAT.

The site brief adds up to 80 nearest detailed grants and refusals, extracted source evidence, document links, and a shareable risk summary.

Exact site history and boundary checks

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Policy and mapped constraints

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Appeals and comparable decisions

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Deterministic risk prompts

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