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Site planning risk brief

27, Greencastle Drive, Coolock, Dublin 17 D17 W028

One-off house / within 5 km where a location match is available

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Local planning pattern

8% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 6,010 decisions within 5 km, 11 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 700 structured appeals.

Matched source
3664/20
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

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

11 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

700 structured nearby appeal records.

700 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
6,010Nearby applications
11Site-linked candidates
8%Nearby refused
700Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Zoning Contravention20
Visual Amenity18
Residential Amenity16
Design14
Traffic Sightlines12

Nearest planning decisions

3664/20

The development will consist of amendments to previous approved planning Ref. 3954/15, for a single storey pitched roof front extension for the full width of the house. The amendment is for the increase in depth of the pitched roof front extension from 1200mm to 2000mm for the full width of the house. Connections to all services and all ancillary site development works.

Granted0.0 km17 December 2020
2558/20

The development will consist of an attic conversion with a dormer window structure within the rear roof slope and first floor internal alterations.

Granted0.0 km08 July 2020
3816/19

Planning permission for the construction of a single storey extension to front of property with tiled canopy, also all associated site works.

Granted0.1 km14 October 2019
2100/19

Permission at this site 81 Macroom Road (corner of Greencastle Drive), Coolock, Dublin 17, D17 PF80. The development will consist of the development of existing fast-food take-away and residential premises. The development will include removal/demolition of existing outbuildings/sheds to rear of site, alterations to existing elevations, ground and first floors and the construction of a 2-storey extension to side and rear of existing premises. The ground floor (currently take-away premises) shall be extended to include new retail food store and proposed extension to side/rear of existing building which will include relocation of existing fast food take-away to front and side of new extended area. The first floor will consist of extension to existing apartment to form 2 no. 2 bed-room apartments and 1 no. 1 bedroom apartment, including private balconies to side and rear elevations. The development shall accommodate car-parking spaces to front of proposed development and connection to existing services and all ancillary works.

Refused0.1 km19 March 2019
4222/23

This is the site of the new building under construction as per planning application ref. 3869/19 for the construction of a two storey mix-use building, abutting no. 81 Macroom Road to the east, comprising a shop at ground floor level and 2 no. apartments at first floor level. The development will consist of (1) new shopfront signage with led light trough over to the front elevation of the new building facing Macroom Road and the side elevation of the new building facing Greencastle Drive, (2) illuminated projecting sign on the front elevation of the new building facing Macroom Road.

Granted0.1 km19 September 2023
4211/23

This is the site of the new building under construction as per planning application ref. 3869/19 for the construction of a two-storey mixed-use building, abutting no. 81 Macroom Road to the east, comprising a shop at ground floor level and 2 no. apartments at first floor level. The development will consist of the provision of an area of the new shop unit for an off licence which is subsidiary to the main retail use at ground floor level of the new building.

Granted0.1 km18 September 2023

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 6,010 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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