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Site planning risk brief

Site at corner of Macroom Road and Greencastle Drive, Coolock, Dublin 17

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 5,992 decisions within 5 km, 15 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 697 structured appeals.

Matched source
4222/23
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

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

15 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

697 structured nearby appeal records.

697 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
5,992Nearby applications
15Site-linked candidates
8%Nearby refused
697Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Zoning Contravention20
Visual Amenity19
Residential Amenity16
Design14
Traffic Sightlines12

Nearest planning decisions

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.

Granted0.0 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.

Granted0.0 km18 September 2023
3869/19

Permission for development at a site of approximately 0.1 hectares. The site is principally bounded by: Macroom Road to the north; Greencastle Drive to the east; No. 39 Greencastle Drive, Dublin 17, D17 XP78 to the south and No. 83 Macroom Road, Dublin 17, D17 N276 to the west. The development will consist of the: construction of a two-storey mixed-use building, abutting No. 81 Macroom Road to the east, comprising: a shop at ground floor level (c. 138.5 sq m gross floor area); and 2 No. apartments at first Floor Level (comprising 1 No. two-bedroom apartment (c. 82 sq m gross floor area) and 1 No. one-bedroom apartment (c. 56 sq m gross floor area)). The proposed development will also consist of: relocation of an existing doorway to the take-away at No. 81 Macroom Road from its eastern facade to its northern facade; removal of a window, associated with the existing take-away, on the eastern elevation of No. 81 Macroom Road; alterations to the existing front porch of No. 81 Macroom Road; relocation and rearrangement of existing ancillary storage/prep areas associated with the existing take-away, to the rear of No. 81 Macroom Road (c. 55 sq m); ancillary floor areas over all floor levels (ancillary space includes areas such as circulation cores (stairs), and plant areas throughout the building, etc.); private open space (2 No. balconies at first floor level on the northern and eastern elevations, respectively); residents' storage facilities; waste storage facilities; revised car parking arrangement and public realm improvements; 7 No. car parking spaces (including 1 No. accessible space); 6 No. bicycle spaces (3 Sheffield stands); vehicular and pedestrian access / egress and associated circulation routes; lighting; facade treatments; signage; boundary treatments; all hard and soft landscaping; and all other associated site excavation, infrastructural and site development works above and below ground; including associated site servicing (foul and surface water drainage and water supply). (For the avoidance of any doubt, no works are proposed to the existing take-away at No. 81 Macroom Road, other than minor amendments to the facade and the relocation/rearrangement of ancillary areas. The floor area of the existing take-away will not increase).

Granted0.0 km22 January 2020
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.

Refused0.0 km19 March 2019
2347/20

Development will consist of demolishing a ground floor only porch to the front of the existing house and replacing with a new ground floor only extension to the front of the existing house and all ancillary works.

Granted0.0 km12 June 2020
3213/20

Planning permission for proposed new dwelling with single storey structure to the front and double storey structure to the rear, housing roof space accommodation and 2 dormer windows to the front. A roof light will be provided on front and back of the house. A proposed vehicular access to front is also included and all associated work. Ground floor consists of kitchen/dining, living room, porch, WC and hallway. First floor consists of 2 bedrooms with storage areas, WC and landing area.

Refused0.0 km09 October 2020

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