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Site planning risk brief

Merchants Court, 24, Merchant's Quay, Dublin 8

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 13,009 decisions within 5 km, 13 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2010 structured appeals.

Matched source
4792/19
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

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

13 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

2010 structured nearby appeal records.

2,010 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
13,009Nearby applications
13Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
2,010Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity3
Design1
Procedure Invalid1
Traffic Sightlines1
Visual Amenity1

Nearest planning decisions

4792/19

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: planning permission for the development at the facade facing onto Merchant's Quay is a Protected Structure Ref 5083. The development provides for the following alterations to the rear of the building: 1) the addition of 2 no. entrances to both side elevations at the rear. These will include 2 new glazed doors and 2 new windows. 2) the addition of a new external entrance ramp and stairs to the western elevation at the rear of the building. 3) associated internal works to provide access from the building to adjoining courtyards.

Granted0.0 km21 February 2020
3175/23

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: the development will consist of the creation of a new ope in the party wall separating Merchant's Court & Merchant's Hall at ground floor level.

Granted0.0 km28 March 2023
3905/19

The development provides for the following alteration to the front facade of the building only; replacement of the existing steel access gate with a new steel gate featuring separate pedestrian-only access, addition of glazed tiling to the existing gate surrounds, addition of a painted render finish to brick facade sections, addition of glazed patterned tiling to window spandrels above first and second floor, new steel balconies to second and third floor and associated works.

Granted0.0 km23 October 2019
4003/22

Development will consist of: The creation of a new ope in the party wall separating Merchant's Hall & Merchant's House at ground floor level.

Granted0.0 km12 July 2022
3705/23

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of proposed change of use of 18 and 19 Merchant's Quay from Office use of the Ground Floor and 3 Residential Accommodation units on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors overhead to Hostel (tourist) use with modifications to existing rear flat roof, amenity space at roof level, associated internal modification works and all associated site works and services.

Refused0.0 km27 June 2023
5337/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: permission for proposed change of use of 151 sq.m. from permitted office use to hostel (tourist) use (and associated works) at ground floor level of 18/19 Merchants Quay, Dublin D08CC90 (a protected structure), including modification to existing rear flat roof and associated internal modifications.

Refused0.0 km01 February 2023

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