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Site planning risk brief

2, Abbotstown Avenue/44 Cardiffsbridge Road, Finglas, Dublin 11, D11 DK1K

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 5,169 decisions within 5 km, 6 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 571 structured appeals.

Matched source
3325/20
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

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

6 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

571 structured nearby appeal records.

571 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
5,169Nearby applications
6Site-linked candidates
11%Nearby refused
571Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity32
Visual Amenity28
Traffic Sightlines25
Other16
Design14

Nearest planning decisions

3325/20

Development will consist of demolishing the existing porch to the side of the existing house and building a proposed ground floor only extension to the front of the existing house with new vehicular & pedestrian entrance. Development will also consist of 4 no. new semi-detached 2 storey 3 no. bed houses in the side garden of 2 Abbotstown Avenue & part of 44 Cardiff's Bridge Road. Each new house will have new vehicular & pedestrian entrance and all ancillary works.

Granted0.0 km15 January 2021
WEB1370/23

Attic Conversion to include a rear dormer window structure.

Granted0.0 km28 June 2023
WEB1405/22

The development will consist of the construction of a dormer window in the main roof of the house to the rear of the property.

Granted0.1 km28 June 2022
WEB1489/23

Permission is sought for construction of a new rear facing dormer and front facing porch to No. 21 Abbotstown Avenue, Finglas West, Dublin 11, D11H7P6. Development to include: 1.) ground floor rendered porch extension measuring 2.7sqm, 2.) attic conversion to habitable bedroom with rear facing metal clad dormer, 3.) one new velux to front roof pitch and all associated roofline changes, internal layout changes to accommodate proposed amendments and site works.

Granted0.1 km15 September 2023
3023/19

The proposed development will consist of demolition of the existing Church of the Annunciation building (c.3166sqm) and construction of a new church/parish pastoral centre building on a smaller site of 0.44ha. The residual site area (0.72ha) will be subject of a separate future application. The new church/pastoral centre building has accommodation totalling 625sqm gross floor area on one level (maximum height 9.3 metres) and incorporates an external courtyard garden area and a storage shed (17sq.m). Vehicular access to a new car park (30 spaces) will be from existing access on Cappagh Road with the existing access from Cardiffsbridge Road to be closed. New pedestrian accesses are proposed from Cappagh Road and Cardiffsbridge Road to a hard and soft landscaped space around the new building which includes a cross sculpture (14 metres high). Permission is also sought for all associated site and development works.

Granted0.1 km28 January 2020
WEB2048/25

The proposed development comprises site clearance works and the construction of a new Church / Parish Pastoral Centre building. The floorspace of the new Church / Pastoral Centre extends to approximately 457 sq.m (GFA) across a single level. The proposed building varies in height from a single storey height up to a maximum height of approximately 12.04m above corresponding ground level. An external courtyard garden is provided to the west of the building. Vehicular and pedestrian accesses are provided off Cappagh Road to the north and off Cardiffsbridge Road to the west serving the ancillary car parking area to the south and east of the building (providing 16 no. car parking spaces) and the building, respectively together with hard- and soft landscaping (including boundary treatments) and all other associated site works and services above and below ground. Provision is made for 9 no. Sheffield type bicycle stands providing 18 no. cycle spaces of which 10 spaces will be covered by a canopy structure.

Granted0.1 km10 December 2025

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 5,169 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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Deterministic risk prompts

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