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Site planning risk brief

14, Merton Drive, Ranelagh, 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 14,368 decisions within 5 km, 28 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 3382 structured appeals.

Matched source
4645/19
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

3382 structured nearby appeal records.

3,382 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
14,368Nearby applications
28Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
3,382Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity11
Visual Amenity9
Design7
Traffic Sightlines5
Other4

Nearest planning decisions

4645/19

The development will consist of: a) The revision of the previously granted planning application, Register Reference 3870/16, to allow for the removal of Condition 4, which states: 'The attic space hereby approved shall be used for household storage/study/playroom only'.

Refused0.0 km07 February 2020
3417/20

Development consisting of a first floor bedroom extension to front of house above the existing garage, with glazed recess at ground floor, new window at first floor, and extension of the existing gable roof. Materials and finishes will match the existing house, including brick front wall and natural slate roof. The development also includes replacing the existing velux roof light arrangement at the rear slope of the roof with a new dormer window structure with zinc cladding, and a bathroom extension to rear at first floor level with plastered finish to match the existing rear elevation.

Granted0.0 km13 November 2020
3496/19

Planning permission is sought at 10 Merton Drive, Dublin 6 D06VY97 for an attic level dormer roof extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house with amendments to elevations to include upgrade of windows and external insulation.

Granted0.0 km03 September 2019
3849/23

PERMISSION: The development will consist of a first floor extension to the side of existing house.

Granted0.0 km21 July 2023
3682/23

RETENTION & PERMISSION: Permission for a first floor side extension to the house with a new window to front and widened window to rear, extension of the existing pitched roof to match the existing pitched roof, with new roof lights to front and rear, an extension to the dormer window structure to rear with zinc cladding (no new glazing) and a single storey front extension. Retention permission is sought for a rooflight to the front.

Granted0.0 km27 June 2023
WEB1224/20

The development will consist of: Construction of first floor over garage extension with hipped roof tied to match existing. 1no. window at first floor level to front elevation. 1no. rooflight to existing front roof façade and 2 no. rooflights to south roof façade. Proposed conversion of existing attic space to include 1no. dormer window to the rear. Internal modification and all ancillary works.

Granted0.1 km07 July 2020

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 14,368 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.

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