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Site planning risk brief

Lidl, Saint Margaret's Road, Finglas, Dublin 11

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

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Local planning pattern

10% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 4,595 decisions within 5 km, 6 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 477 structured appeals.

Matched source
5257/22
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

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

6 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

477 structured nearby appeal records.

477 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
4,595Nearby applications
6Site-linked candidates
10%Nearby refused
477Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity26
Traffic Sightlines24
Visual Amenity24
Other17
Zoning Contravention14

Nearest planning decisions

5257/22

Permission for development will consist of modifications to the ground floor layout and shop façade and will include for: a) Single-storey extension to front of the existing store to provide a DRS facility to allow customers to return plastic beverage bottles to a reverse vending machine in store b) The removal of the existing entrance/exit pod. c) The removal of the existing trolley bay. d) Proposed free-standing trolley bay. e) Proposed alteration works to store elevation. f) Alteration works to car park area. g) All ancillary works required to complete to the required Building Regulations standards.

Granted0.0 km24 January 2023
3230/24

RETENTION. Retention Permission for erecting 792.51 m2 or 150.88 kWp of photovoltaic panels on the roof of our Lidi Finglas Store with all associated site works.

Granted0.0 km12 April 2024
WEB1346/24

The retention of the existing scrolling internally illuminated double sided 'Metropole' advertising display case mounted on an offset leg.

Granted0.1 km16 May 2024
2439/21

The development will consist of the demolition of all existing buildings on site (total c. 392.22 m2) and the construction of 27 no. apartments in two blocks with balconies and terraces comprising of: 7 no. two-storey apartments in rear two storey Block 2 (c. 684.7 m2) ( 1 no. 3-bed unit, 4 no. 2-bed 4-person units, 2no. 2-bed 3-person units) and 20 no. one-storey apartments in front four storey Block 1 (c. 1446.3 m2) (comprising of 3 no. studio units; 10 no. 1-bed units; 7 no. 2-bed 4-person units) with solar panels on roof; the provision of a single storey bin store(c.33.56m2); communal amenity space (c.186.36m2); removal of hard standing, boundary walls to front and existing services on site as required; modifications of existing vehicular, pedestrian and cycle access; with new pedestrian and cycle accesses from St Margaret's Road; with 14 no car spaces and 58 no cycle spaces; with associated siteworks, services, landscaping, planting, levelling, paving, lighting and boundary treatment.

Refused0.1 km17 May 2021
WEB1032/22

Retention sought for; 1. Existing single storey lean-to rear extension to dwelling house as laid out and constructed & 2. Existing single storey outbuilding as laid out and constructed, with home office and storage use ancillary to the dwelling house.

Granted0.1 km14 March 2022
4053/19

RETENTION: the development will consist of retention of alterations between adjoining lands, all within the ownership of the applicant. This application is on foot of a previous grant of planning permission, register reference 4051/17, altered by a subsequent grant of permission on the adjoining site to the west, register reference 4726/18 which reduced the application site area. This application is for retention of the existing as-built site boundaries which have reduced the subject site area from 6817.4msq to 6546.6msq.

Granted0.2 km15 November 2019

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 4,595 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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