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Site planning risk brief

Unit 3 Malahide Road Retail Centre, Malahide Road, Dublin 17

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

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Local planning pattern

9% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 5,736 decisions within 5 km, 10 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 686 structured appeals.

Matched source
4783/23
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

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

10 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

686 structured nearby appeal records.

686 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
5,736Nearby applications
10Site-linked candidates
9%Nearby refused
686Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity23
Visual Amenity22
Zoning Contravention20
Design18
Traffic Sightlines15

Nearest planning decisions

4783/23

Planning permission to: (a) construct a first floor mezzanine (663sqm) for retail warehousing use, (b) install a first floor window to rear (west) elevation, (c) to carry out internal alterations and layout changes, (d) replace the existing non illuminated sign to front (east) elevation with an illuminated sign. All of these works relate to an existing unit used for retail warehousing at Unit 3 Malahide Road Retail Centre (formerly known as the Coolock Retail Park), Malahide Road, Dublin 17.

Granted0.0 km17 January 2024
2278/20

Planning permission for the development consisting of modifications to the existing access arrangements between Newtown Avenue and the Malahide Road Retails Centre, and associated works. The development will include the removal of some external fencing and the existing vehicular and pedestrian gate along the boundary of the site with Newtown Avenue, the installation of a new internal gate (circa 9m wide x 24m high) between the boundary of the site and the rear of Unit No. 6 (to control access to the servicing area to the rear of Unit 6), the creation of a new internal pedestrian access gate (adjacent to Unit 5) in the existing fencing/gated area between Unit 5 and Unit 6 in order to allow continued pedestrian access from Newtown Avenue to the Malahide Road Retail Centre and improvements to an internal pedestrian walkway including the installation of guardrails. The development will also conisist of associated site deleopment works above and below ground. (The existing internal vehicular gate located bweween Unit 5 and Unit 6 and the existing internal pesdestraian gate located adjacent to Unit 6 will be closed to the public.)

Granted0.0 km24 June 2020
2279/20

The development will consist of the erection of a c.2.440m wide by c.10.85m high double sided totem sign (including spotlight illumination) at the south eastern section of the Malahide Road Retail Centre including associated site works such as the removal of 3 trees along the site’s eastern boundary with the Malahide Road and the planting of 3 replacement trees nearby.

Granted0.0 km17 April 2020
3737/19

RETENTION & PERMISSION: Permission for development at the Malahide Road Retail Centre (formerly known as the 'Coolock Retail Park'), Malahide Road, Dublin 17, consisting of permission for change of use of Unit No. 3 from Gym to Retail Warehouse use; permission for new signage on the front elevation of Unit No. 3 comprising of non-illuminated 5.75m wide x 2.54m high signage and 4 no. 1m wide x 1.5m high poster signs mounted on the front facade of the Unit; and permission for a 2.44m wide x 10.85m high double sided totem sign close to the southern boundary of the site near the Malahide Road. Retention permission is sought for signage at Unit No. 4 comprising of non-illuminated 5.75m wide x 2.54m high signage and 4 No. 1m wide x 1.5m high poster signs mounted on the front facade of the Unit.

Granted0.0 km07 October 2019
4218/22

The development will consist of a 310sqm industrial warehouse with advertisement signage, fencing and car parking.

Granted0.1 km13 December 2022
WEB2482/24

The development will consist of the following: • Provision of a drive-thru lane for the Costa Coffee unit, including a service hatch on the eastern side of the unit, a height restrictor / entrance barrier on the access lane, 3.5m wide drive-thru lane, and associated hard and soft landscaping, resulting in the removal of 10 no. existing car parking spaces; • Internal alterations to the layout of the existing Costa Coffee unit; • Provision of associated signage consisting of 2 no. directional signs, 1 no. order station, and 2 no. menu boards / advertisement signs; • Provision of a new bin store to the southeast of the Costa Coffee unit; • Alterations to the south, east, west and north elevations of the Costa Coffee unit, including the provision of new signage; • An increase of unit floor area of 9 sq.m; • Associated alterations to the existing car parking, landscaping and all associated development.

Granted0.1 km09 January 2025

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