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Site planning risk brief

Basement & Ground Floor, 17, Crown Alley / 3-4 Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

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

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Local planning pattern

13% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 13,186 decisions within 5 km, 75 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 1992 structured appeals.

Matched source
2956/19
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

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

75 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

1992 structured nearby appeal records.

1,992 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
13,186Nearby applications
75Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
1,992Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity3
Design1
Procedure Invalid1
Traffic Sightlines1
Visual Amenity1

Nearest planning decisions

2956/19

RETENTION & PERMISSION: For development at this site: Basement & Ground Floor, No. 17 Crown Alley / 3-4 Cope Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. The development consists of: Retention Permission for the re-location of the main entrance door at Cope Street elevation as per previous granted planning application reference no. 3232/17. Permission for alteration of operating hours between 7.00am to 11.30pm (Sunday - Thursday) and 7.00am to 12.30am (Friday - Saturday), including permission for new advertisement signage at ground floor fascia elevations, all associated site and ancillary works at this address.

Granted0.0 km04 July 2019
4220/22

Redevelopment of the existing three storey over basement commercial building to include the change of use from office use to guesthouse accommodation with ground-level Café / retail unit. The proposed development includes for the construction of an additional floor setback at roof level. The proposed guesthouse will comprise 13 no. bedrooms and ancillary accommodation including multi-purpose/ day room, with a reception integrated as part of the café. The external lightwell will be extended to ground floor level to the rear, with new formed internal elevations changes to fenestration and amended elevational treatment to Fownes St. facade with signage and associated site works.

Granted0.0 km20 September 2022
5454/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: PERMISSION & RETENTION: For development at the Annex Building (a Protected Structure Ref: 8830). The proposed development relates to: 1. Retention permission for the setting back of the entire northern elevation of the Annex Building by 0.65m. This was carried out during construction to ensure that the permitted building was not encroaching onto the existing Taken In Charge area by Dublin City Council. This reduced the permitted unit kiosk from 13 sq.m to 10.6 sq.m. and reduced the delivery area for the main Annex Building from 7.2 sq.m to 5.9.sqm. Retention is also sought for facade alterations to the northern façade of the main Annex Building where concealed louvered panel has been provided to facilitate access to a gas meter. 2. Permission for a change of use of the permitted kiosk unit (located onto Cope St) from permitted use as a restaurant/café unit (as permitted under Reg. Ref.:3154/17 as amended by 3907/19) to a takeaway unit for the sale of Coffee and/or food/hot food for consumption off premises and the insertion of a glazed opening window (1.84m x 1.22m) and serving shelf on the western elevation onto the pedestrian route between Dame St and Cope Street. The unit will accord with the permitted opening hours of the wider Central Plaza restaurant/café units of 7am to 11.30pm. Alterations to the permitted signage to allow for 2 no. new signage on the north elevation of 2.15m x 0.75m and west elevation of 2.65m x 0.75m and west elevation of 2.65m x 0.75m.

Granted0.0 km17 February 2023
5490/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The proposed development relates to permission for a change of use of Unit F (26.6 sq.m) from permitted use as a restaurant/café unit (as permitted under Reg. Ref.:3620/17; ABP Ref: ABP-300063-17, as amended by DCC Re. Ref.: 3275/19) to a café/restaurant unit and takeaway for the sale of coffee and/or food/hot food for consumption off premises. The unit will accord with the permitted opening hours of the wider Central Plaza restaurant/café units of 7am to 11.30pm. Permission is also sought for external seating adjacent the unit onto Cope Street and Fownes Street Upper.

Granted0.0 km22 February 2023
3977/24

PERMISSION AND RETENTION for development at this site; Bad Ass Café, 9-11 Crown Alley, Temple Bar, Dublin 2, D02ED77 and Unit 2/3, Temple Bar Square, Dublin 2, DO2 X738. 9-11 Crown Alley is a Protected Structure. The development will consist of; a) on the Crown Alley façade, the retention of the illuminated "Bad Ass" fascia sign; b) on the Crown Alley façade, the replacement on the fascia sign of the 2D black lettering "Guinness" and "Temple Bar" with new 3D lettering; c) on the Temple Bar Square façade, the removal of the illuminated signage comprising a gold harp and the words "Bad Ass" and its replacement with whole new fascia and associated signage and d) on the Temple Bar Square façade a new metal screen to replace the existing roller shutter to the stairwell. All as described in detail in the drawings.

Refused0.0 km30 August 2024
WEB1394/25

Change of use from general retail to a take-away/restaurant, with operating hours from 12:00 PM to 2:00 AM, Monday to Sunday.

Granted0.0 km11 November 2025

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