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Site planning risk brief

40, Drumcondra Road Lower, Dublin, 9

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

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Local planning pattern

12% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 12,258 decisions within 5 km, 19 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 1568 structured appeals.

Matched source
3891/22
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

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

19 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

1568 structured nearby appeal records.

1,568 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
12,258Nearby applications
19Site-linked candidates
12%Nearby refused
1,568Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Other1
Residential Amenity1
Visual Amenity1

Nearest planning decisions

3891/22

RETENTION: Retention of Bakery Kitchen unit at ground floor, to rear of Shouk restaurant, at St. Joseph's Art college Drumcondra Ltd. 40, Drumcondra Road Lower, Dublin, 9.

Granted0.0 km17 January 2023
2365/20

RETENTION: Retention Planning Permission sought for "Shouk Restaurant" consisting of existing restaurant structure with kitchen, wash-room, wine bar, seating areas, right of way to second floor toilets and ground floor disabled toilet, together with right of way to cold store, (1) cold store; (2) dry store, staff room, all at 40 Drumcondra Road Lower, Drumcondra, Dublin 9.

Granted0.0 km18 June 2020
3072/24

RETENTION /PERMISSION is sought to retain existing Bakery shop, and to complete works, ( Fit Out ), also to retain and complete works, (External Render) to existing Sourdough Bakery, Permission Sought to erect support structure and retractable canopy, and Canvas infill cover to yard.

Granted0.0 km15 March 2024
2187/21

Planning permission for the development on a 0.194 ha site. The propopsed development will principally consists of: the demolition of all existing structures on site (1,436 sqm) including nos. 42-44 (including the former Quinn's Public House), No.46 and the surviving facades of Nos. 48B, 50 and 50A Drumcondra Road Lower, Dubln9; and the provision of a part 2 no. to part 5 no. storey over partial basement mixed-use develoment containing 3 no. commercial units including a bookmakers (131 sqm), a cafe (46 sqm) and retail unit (84 sqm) at ground floor level and 50 no. build-to-rent apartments (11 no. studio units, 33 no. one bedroom units and 6 no. two bedroom units) and internal communal amenity/support facilities (224 sqm). The scheme which has a gross floor area of 3,157 sqm in addition to a part basement measuring 338 sqm, also includes an external deck access facing south extending from first level to third floor levels. The residential units will be principally accessed from St. Alphonsus Avenue with the scheme including pedestrian and cyclist access from the laneway to west connecting to St. Joseph's Avenue. The development also includes bicycle parking; bin stores; comms room; meter room; ESB substation; wintergardens and balconies facing north, east and west; roof garden facing north, east and west; green roofs, PV panels; boundary treatments; hard and soft landscaping; lighting; plant and all other assocciated site works above and below ground.

Refused0.0 km01 April 2021
2488/19

RETENTION & PERMISSION: The development will consist of retention of the existing demolished dwelling and re-construction of the house to include a ground and first-floor extension to the rear.

Granted0.1 km02 May 2019
WEB1466/19

RETENTION: Retention Permission for elevation alterations to existing shopfront, comprising: a) Change of shopfront design and position of entrance door. b) New advertising lettering and signage, to read ‘Define Barber’ in place of ‘Barber Shop’.

Granted0.1 km18 December 2019

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 12,258 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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