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Site planning risk brief

4, Harry Street, Dublin 2, D02 CX24 (abutting Balfe Street and Chatham Lane)

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 13,198 decisions within 5 km, 60 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2188 structured appeals.

Matched source
3295/23
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

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

60 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

2188 structured nearby appeal records.

2,188 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
13,198Nearby applications
60Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
2,188Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity4
Traffic Sightlines2
Visual Amenity2
Design1
Procedure Invalid1

Nearest planning decisions

4460/23

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: a) Change of use of the first floor and second floor attic, from Licensed Wine and Spirit Shop to Licensed Restaurant and the shared use for both shop and restaurant of the ground floor entrance hall and stairs, and associated minor works including an external sign on Balfe Street; and b) Alterations to the existing roof mounted venitilation equipment.

Granted0.0 km15 January 2024
3295/23

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for the following: (a) change of use of the entire building of 416sqm (basement, ground floor, first floor and attic levels) from retail to off-licence (including ancillary spaces) selling wines and spirits and; (b) the change of text of the existing projecting sign at high level, and the name above the door, both on Harry Street, and; (c) the application of removable gold lettering to the glass of the lower sashes of the ground floor windows on all three elevations. The application includes, (d) the installation of removable shelf/display units including ground floor level window displays of non-alcohol produce.

Granted0.0 km25 April 2023
WEB1176/23

The display of halo illuminated signs (individual letters) above the ground floor window and building entrance on the Chatham Street elevation and above the building entrance on the Balfe Street elevation; and the installation of 3 no. projecting flagpoles at first floor level on the Balfe Street elevation to the north of the building entrance for the display of national and (non-commercial) organisation flags

Granted0.0 km27 April 2023
2049/20

Permission for development at Chatham House, Chatham Street, Dublin 2 bounded to the south by Chatham Street, to the north by 4 Harry Street (Protected Structure), to the west by Balfe Street and to the east by Chatham Lane. The development will consist of the demolition of the existing three storey over basement building on the site and the construction of a 3,005 sq.m (GFA) six storey over basement mixed use building comprising an interactive multi-media exhibition area with associated offices, toilets and storage areas, plant areas, cycle parking (15 no. spaces) and bin storage areas in the basement; a multi-media exhibition and gallery area with an entrance from Chatham Street, an entrance lobby with entrances from Balfe Street and Chatham Lane and an ESB substation at ground floor; a multi-purpose conference and education space, meeting room, toilets and ancillary space at first floor; a total of 1425 sq.m (NFA) of office accommodation on the second, third, fourth and fifth floors with tiered roof terraces facing onto Chatham Street on the fourth and fifth floors; and 140 sq.m of solar photovoltaic ('PV') modules and a 160 sq.m plant area enclosure at roof level.

Granted0.0 km28 May 2020
WEB1469/26

Changes to the Westbury Mall, Balfe Street, Johnson's Court, and Clarendon Street, Dublin 2 to comprise: (i) converting the retail Unit No. 12 to a café to service up to 14 tables (4 no. in the café and 10 no. in mall centre); (ii) banquet seating in mall; (iii) with associated changes to the shopfront to include a security roller shutter to replace existing double doors and proposed new signage; (iv) also the installation of new automatic glazed double sliding doors and fixed screens, set in approx. 3 metres from the Balfe Street entrance.

Granted0.0 km24 April 2026
2617/21

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission for development that will consist of a glazed canopy (2838mm x 13050mm) fixed to the front of the building (a Protected Structure) at first floor level to overhang at a height 2580mm above the existing pavement seating on the pedestrian section of Harry Street. Building is located at junction of Harry Street (pedestrian section) and Swan Yard to end of Chatham Lane (road). Main access from Harry Street.

Refused0.0 km14 June 2021

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