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Site planning risk brief

St. Paul's Church, Arran Quay, Dublin 7

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 12,928 decisions within 5 km, 4 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 1918 structured appeals.

Matched source
3161/22
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

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

4 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

1918 structured nearby appeal records.

1,918 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
12,928Nearby applications
4Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
1,918Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity2
Traffic Sightlines1
Visual Amenity1

Nearest planning decisions

3161/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of alterations to the existing internal layout to provide a new toilet layout, conversion of existing canteen to office use including new seperate kitchen and insertion of new tea station in entrance foyer, and general repair and upgrading works to church space, entrance foyer, Library room and offices in rear annex all with associated services alterations.

Granted0.0 km23 March 2022
4290/23

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: the development consists of amendment to the grant of permission Reg. Ref. 2354/20 for the change of use from offices to a tourist hostel. The amendments comprise the following: (i) the 3-storey rear extension is not to be constructed, (ii) the common room is now to be at entry level, the kitchen/dining located in the basement, (iii) the provision of a partition at third-floor level.

Granted0.1 km04 October 2023
2354/20

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning Permission at No. 7 Arran Quay, Smithfield, Dublin 7, a protected structure, for the following development: The change of use from office to use as a tourist hostel (22 guests): lowering of part of the basement level floor by 400mm: external steps from basement up to rear yard: refurbishment of the ground floor return with new window openings: a 3-storey rear extension (1st-3rd floor) accommodating new bathrooms with steel frame and timber cladding.

Granted0.1 km16 October 2020
2580/19

Planning permission for the following development. GROUND FLOOR: the change of use (except hallway) from residential to use as a coffee shop, a new glass door to replace the LHS front door. FIRST-FLOOR: the provision of a shower-room, blocking up 1 doorway and provision of kitchen units. SECOND-FLOOR: the provision of a shower-room, blocking up 1 doorway and provision of kitchen units. THIRD-FLOOR: the provision of a shower-room. FOURTH-FLOOR: the provision of kitchen units, the change of use of the upper floors from residential, to use for short-term letting.

Refused0.1 km17 May 2019
3474/19

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for the following development: The provision of an opaque, glazed shower room to the rear of the top (fourth) floor room.

Granted0.1 km05 September 2019
2508/21

PERMISSION & RETENTION: The proposed development seeks to amend a previously permitted development under Dublin City Council (DCC) Ref. 2024/16 (An Bord Pleanala (ABP) Ref. PL29N.246933), as amended by DCC Reg. Ref. 2176/19 (ABP Ref. 304717-19); DCC Reg. Ref. 3974/19 (ABP Ref. PL29S.306060); DCC Reg. Ref. 2827/20 and DCC Reg. Ref. 3758/20. Retention permission is sought for the amalgamation of the Restaurant Unit (Unit 2 - 193 sq.m) and Retail Unit (Unit 3 - 277 sq.m) at ground floor level; together with permission for a change of use of the Restaurant Unit to provide for a Single Convenience Retail Unit of approximately 471 sq.m, incorporating an ancillary part off-licence (20 sq.m). Associated proposed external ground floor alterations include the replacement of a doorway on the western elevation with glazing to match the remainder of the shopfront and the replacement of an existing door and glazing on the southern elevation with a pair of automatic sliding entrance doors.

Granted0.1 km25 May 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 12,928 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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