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Site planning risk brief

Ground Floor, First Active House, Seamus Ennis Road, Finglas, Dublin 11

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 5,705 decisions within 5 km, 22 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 620 structured appeals.

Matched source
2198/20
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

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

22 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Dublin City 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 Dublin City 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 Dublin City 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

620 structured nearby appeal records.

620 matched

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

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

1 matched
5,705Nearby applications
22Site-linked candidates
11%Nearby refused
620Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity22
Traffic Sightlines21
Visual Amenity17
Zoning Contravention13
Other12

Nearest planning decisions

2198/20

Planning Permission for change of use to address: Ground Floor, First Active House, Seamus Ennis Road, Finglas, Dublin 11. The development will consist of: Change of use from offices to Medical Dental Practice. New signage over front main entrance.

Granted0.0 km30 March 2020
3664/21

The development will consist of redecoration of existing timber shop front to colour grey & new high street style signage. This will include new aluminium fascia, internally illuminated logo pod, strapline text and illuminated projecting sign.

Granted0.0 km02 December 2021
4102/21

Planning permission for the change of use from existing retail unit to Pizza Takeaway and the erection of new signage to the front elevation.

Granted0.1 km01 September 2022
4508/23

The development will consist of alterations to the existing ground floor front shop window along McKee Avenue for the provision of a new reverse vending machine (RVM) unit to be installed within the existing retail store which will operate as part of a deposit return scheme (DRS) ancillary to the existing supermarket.

Granted0.1 km14 November 2023
3378/24

The proposed development will consist of alterations to the previously permitted mixed-use development (granted under Reg. Ref. 3594/23) including the omission of the permitted basement and filling of the existing basement to now provide for a six-storey terraced mixed-use building; reconfiguration of the permitted ground floor and change of use from permitted 1 no. gastropub/restaurant and 1 no. retail unit to now provide for 1 no. retail unit, 1 no. café unit, 4 no. staff bicycle parking spaces, 74 no. residential bicycle parking spaces, bin stores, and plant room; alterations to east and west elevations including signage at ground floor level; and all associated site and engineering works necessary to facilitate the development.

Granted0.1 km05 November 2024
3594/23

The proposed development will consist of the demolition of the existing two-storey over part basement (three storey), terraced, commercial building and the construction of a six-storey over full basement (seven storey) terraced mixed-use building consisting of 1 no. retail unit and 1 no. gastropub/restaurant at ground floor level, and a total of 25 no. apartments over five floors (8 no. one beds, 11 no. two beds and 6 no. three beds) with balconies to the south, east and west elevations, and communal roof terraces, all over a basement comprising 74 no. bicycle parking spaces, bin stores, plant room, and stores and ancillary service areas for the commercial unit, 10 no. bicycle parking spaces at ground floor level for staff, and 6 no. external bicycle parking spaces for visitors (adjoining Jamestown Road), and all associated site and engineering works necessary to facilitate the development.

Granted0.1 km12 June 2023

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 5,705 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.

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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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