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Site planning risk brief

Block B, Castle Gate Apartments, Castle Street, 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 13,058 decisions within 5 km, 13 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2037 structured appeals.

Matched source
3633/21
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

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

13 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

2037 structured nearby appeal records.

2,037 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
13,058Nearby applications
13Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
2,037Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity3
Design1
Procedure Invalid1
Traffic Sightlines1
Visual Amenity1

Nearest planning decisions

3633/21

Permission for the removal of an existing mechanical vehicular gate to be replaced with a similar gate positioned closer to the street building line at Block B, Castle Gate Apartments, Castle Street, Dublin 2.

Granted0.0 km29 November 2021
2357/21

Planning permission for replacement of existing shopfronts and install new shopfront streetscape incorporating 5 no. retail units and apartment block entrance (6 no. in total) and all associated site development works.

Granted0.0 km20 August 2021
3589/20

Permission for internal re-configuration of the existing Healthcare Building along with the addition of 3.no single storey external ancillary rooms (27 m2) and 3 storey lift shaft to the rear (14m2), (total additional area 41m2) and all associated site works and services.

Granted0.1 km11 December 2020
2131/20

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Planning permission for development on a 0.11 ha site approximately located at Nos. 16-18 Lord Edward Street (a protected structure) and No. 18 Exchange Street Upper (known as ''Fashion House'') and Copper Alley, Dublin 2. The proposed development comprises minor amendment to the Parliament Hotel (permitted under DCC Reg. Ref. 3448/16, as amended by DCC Reg. Refs. 4521/17, 3280/18, 2525/19) and includes additional plant screening to Parliament Roof to match material of permitted plant screen, 3no. street level painted metal out of hours security screens at Lord Edward Street entrances, 2no. canopies to Fashion House fifth floor terrace, relocation of 2no. existing flag poles to Parliament building at first floor level to corner of Lord Edward Street and Exchange Street Upper and 2no. timber louvered panels within external door on Copper Alley towards Cow's Lane painted to match door finish.

Granted0.1 km05 August 2020
2304/20

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Development on a 0.11 ha site approximately. The proposed development comprises of a low-poly wire frame sculptural artwork installation in the form of 4 simplified figures of approximate dimensions 3.2 m (H) x 3m (W) x 2m (D) in total fixed 0.4 m above the roof of the existing link bridge which connects the 2 buildings over Copper Alley along with laser cut decorative anodized bronze metalwork screens fixed to and covering the entirety of both sides of the link bridge.

Granted0.1 km17 April 2020
3036/21

Permission for change of use of the ground floor (c. 155 sqm) to use class 8, for dental surgery.

Granted0.1 km19 August 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 13,058 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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