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Site planning risk brief

No. 3 & 4 (Part), Fownes Street Upper, 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 13,178 decisions within 5 km, 79 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2008 structured appeals.

Matched source
3552/19
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

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

79 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

2008 structured nearby appeal records.

2,008 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
13,178Nearby applications
79Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
2,008Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity3
Design1
Procedure Invalid1
Traffic Sightlines1
Visual Amenity1

Nearest planning decisions

3552/19

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for development at this site No. 3 & No. 4 (part) Fownes Street Upper, Dublin 2. (Protected Structure). The development will consist of alteration of existing residence into 4 no. apartments with storage and laundry area. The proposal includes basement storage, gym, shower, lockers, laundry and bike storage; ground floor entrance only; first floor 72 sqm one bedroom apartment; second floor 104 sqm two bedroom apartment; third floor 62.7 sqm one bed apartment and 75 sqm one bed apartment.

Granted0.0 km13 September 2019
4723/23

PROTECTED STRUCTURE (RPS2931). RETENTION: of metal clothing rail to the shop front of Bad Lands, 3a Fownes Street Upper, Dublin 2

Refused0.0 km03 January 2024
WEB5936/25

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: RPS: 8830: Unit 3 is located at ground level, with associated back of house located at basement -1, onto Fownes St Upper to the west and the Plaza and Dame St to the South. The proposed development relates to permission for internal signage for Unit 3, which is permitted as a restaurant, to consist of: • 1 no. banner sign, hanging internally within the unit and set back from the existing glazed facade on the southern elevation of 0.5m x 6.269m. The proposed sign is brushed stainless steel fascia panel, with low energy red LEDs for halo illumination. • 1 no. banner sign, hanging internally within the unit and set back from the existing glazed facade on the western elevation of 0.274m x 3.438m. The proposed sign is brushed stainless steel fascia panel, with low energy red LEDs for halo illumination. • 1 no. roundel sign, hanging internally within the unit and set back from the existing glazed facade on the western elevation of 1.45m x 1.45m. The proposed sign is brushed stainless steel fascia with coloured vinyl lettering and graphics, with low energy cool white LEDs for internal illumination. • 1 no. LED red light line, set back from the southern elevation and along the extent of the southern elevation profile.

Granted0.0 km31 March 2026
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
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
4240/24

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The proposed development consists of changes to the existing entrance doorway at the lower Plaza level (-1) which gives access to the hospitality area at roof level. The development proposes to replace the existing glazed doors with new recessed doors, set back 3.1 metres to create a new portal giving access to a new entrance doorway, provide a vertical identification sign 3m high by 0.7m wide to side of new portal and provide a new retractable canopy over entrance. The portal can be closed to access when required by way of a bi-fold gate.

Granted0.0 km25 October 2024

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 13,178 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.

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