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Site planning risk brief

280, 282 & 284 Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6.

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 14,444 decisions within 5 km, 28 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 3136 structured appeals.

Matched source
3779/21
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

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

28 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

3136 structured nearby appeal records.

3,136 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
14,444Nearby applications
28Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
3,136Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity7
Visual Amenity4
Procedure Invalid3
Design2
Other2

Nearest planning decisions

3779/21

The development will consist of the replacement of the existing advertising sign (6m high by 6m wide) structure and overhead lighting with a digital display sign (6m high by 6m wide ) at the gable end of 284 Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6. If granted, the permission would be on the basis of removing and decommissioning, in line with the outdoor advertising policy of Dublin City Council, outdoor signage on the upper floors of No.94 Dorset Street Upper, at its junction with Blessington Street, Dublin 7.

Granted0.0 km04 January 2022
3166/21

Planning permission for the development will consist of demolition of shed to rear of existing retail unit replace by single storey extension to existing retail unit and change of use from retail to restaurant together with associated internal alterations.

Granted0.0 km03 November 2021
WEB1540/23

Installation of new signage to Co-Living development at Rathmines House, 143-149 Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6. The application includes 1 No. illuminated wall mounted building sign to the front entrance at Williams Park and 2 No. illuminated projecting building signs to the east façade at Rathmines Road Lower, all in association with granted permission: 4568/19.

Granted0.0 km22 August 2023
4568/19

Planning permission is sought to carry out a development at "Rathmines House", 143-149 Rathmines Road Lower, Rathmines, Dublin 6 to involve a change of use from office use to Co-Living Shared Accommodation use and to construct an additional 3 setback floors to be part of the overall shared accommodation development so as to create a 7 storey building with roof top plant. The existing floor area is 2,640 sq.m and this will be increased by 1,908 sq.m to provide a total development of 4,548 sq.m. There will be 110 individual units varying in size with shared kitchen, dining and living communal facilities on each floor level. In addition on the ground floor there will be reception, gymnasium, residents lounge, laundrette and accessible WC. The rear yard presently used for car parking will contain parking for 160 bicycles, bin storage and will provide continued access to the existing ESB substation. There will be a coffee serving kiosk facing onto the adjoining footpath for coffee consumption off the premises.

Granted0.0 km31 January 2020
3317/23

RETENTION: The development will consist of: Retention permission for the change of use from office to residential use for a 1 bedroom apartment (total area 63 sqm) at first floor level including an attic roof level conversion (non-habitable) in the attic space of the apartment and all associated alterations.

Granted0.0 km28 April 2023
4207/21

RETENTION: The development will consist of: Retention for a material change of use from retail to restaurant use at ground floor level to a terraced 2 storey mixed use development. Retention permission is also sought for external mechanical extract and ventilation ducts to rear of property serving the restaurant use. The subject area for retention measures 200.8m2 gross internal area which includes rear escape stair core at ground floor level to rear of property.

Granted0.0 km17 August 2022

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 14,444 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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Policy and mapped constraints

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Appeals and comparable decisions

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Deterministic risk prompts

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