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Site planning risk brief

Actons Hotel Fronting on to Pier Road and Lower O'Connell St Dromderrig and Town Plots Kinsale, Co. Cork

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

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Local planning pattern

11% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 753 decisions within 5 km, 52 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 0 structured appeals.

Matched source
19/6900
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

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

52 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Cork 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

Confirmed coverage

2 current citations from the Cork County Council development plan, each with section, page and source URL.

2 matched

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

3 of 4 layers are loaded for Cork County Council and were intersected with the site; flood is not loaded and no conclusion is drawn for it.

3 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

Register indexed

No structured appeal row is currently tied to the matched decision set.

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

Citations are current-dated and carry policy name, section, page and source URL from the Cork County Council development plan.

2 matched
753Nearby applications
52Site-linked candidates
11%Nearby refused
0Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

19/6900

Partial demolition, extensions, alterations and modifications to the existing Actons Hotel consisting of: a) the demolition of existing single storey changing rooms to rear of function room, b) a four storey extension to the main hotel building to provide 12 no. additional bedrooms, c) minor demolition, alterations and refurbishment works to the existing function room, including a new facade and access arrangement; d) replacement of the existing bay windows on front elevation, e) a new lobbied entrance to the main bar from the car park, f) the reconfiguration of the parking and landscaping to the front of the hotel site, g) the construction of 2 no. 4 storey residential units for ancillary staff accommodation with workshop and covered storage area on the ground floor, and the reconfiguration of 5 no. existing car parking spaces on Lower O’Connell Street h) the demolition of existing extensions of house no.s 14 (Protected Structure) and 15 Lower O’Connell Street and the internal alteration and restoration of house no.s 14 (Protected Structure) and 15 Lower O’Connell Street for short term letting/accommodation; and i) all associated ancillary development. The development consists of work to a Protected Structure.

Granted0.0 km16 October 2020
17/6894

Erection of a new porch with metal cladding; the insertion of 2 no. windows on the southern elevation; the erection of a new steel canopy structure with glazed canopy over the existing entrance to the function room; the insertion of new windows and the addition of lead cladding on the front elevation of the function room. Retention of existing retractable canopy on the eastern elevation serving the bar/café. The proposed development adjoins No. 14 Lower O’Connell Street (a Protected Structure, RPS 37 Kinsale Town Development Plan).

Granted0.0 km11 January 2018
25/6928

Permission for Partial demolition, extensions, alterations and modifications to the existing Actons Hotel consisting of: a) the demolition of existing single storey changing rooms to rear of function room, b) a four storey extension to the main hotel building to provide 12 no. additional bedrooms, c) minor demolition, alterations and refurbishment works to the existing function room, including a new facade and access arrangement; d) replacement of the existing bay windows on front elevation, e) a new lobbied entrance to the main bar from the car park, f) the reconfiguration of the parking and landscaping to the front of the hotel site, g) the construction of 2 no. 4 storey residential units for ancillary staff accommodation with workshop and covered storage area on the ground floor, and the reconfiguration of 5 no. existing car parking spaces on Lower O’Connell Street h) the demolition of existing extensions of house no.s 14 (Protected Structure) and 15 Lower O’Connell Street and the internal alteration and restoration of house no.s 14 (Protected Structure) and 15 Lower O’Connell Street for short term letting/accommodation; and i) all associated ancillary development. The development consists of work to a Protected Structure. Extension of Duration to Permission granted under Planning Ref. No. 19/6900.

Granted0.0 km24 February 2026
24/6246

Permission to demolish existing dwelling and to build a replacement dwelling and small outbuilding, to extend the north boundary wall in a stone finish to match the existing, to include for revisions to the existing vehicular entrance and associated site works.

Refused0.0 km30 January 2025
17/5874

Demolish existing dwelling and construct new dwellinghouse, increase the existing car entrance and construct a separate pedestrian entrance with ancillary boundary wall with associated site works

Granted0.0 km28 March 2018
19/5029

Renovation, alterations to fenestration including first floor balcony on front elevation, erection of first floor terrace to rear, and change of use of former workshop premises to dwelling unit and associated site development work. Extension of Duration of Permission granted under planning reference: 13/53014

Granted0.1 km07 June 2019

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