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Site planning risk brief

49, Merrion Square East, Dublin 2

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 13,335 decisions within 5 km, 24 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2340 structured appeals.

Matched source
5272/22
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

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

24 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

2340 structured nearby appeal records.

2,340 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
13,335Nearby applications
24Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
2,340Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity5
Design2
Procedure Invalid2
Traffic Sightlines2
Visual Amenity2

Nearest planning decisions

5272/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Conversion of the existing ground floor WC to become a print room. Works will comprise the removal of an internal wall, minor alterations in layout, renewal of finishes, amended building services and alterations to the existing glazing.

Granted0.0 km26 January 2023
WEB1245/25

PROTECTED STRUCTURE RETENTION permission. The development will consist of: Reconstruction and repairs to rear gable wall of rear return from Basement to Ground Floor. Re-rendering and re-plastering of associated wall in lime render / plaster. And associated site works.

Granted0.0 km03 April 2025
3823/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission is sought for change of use of basement office to 1 bed apartment with two new internal openings and change of use to a house of upper floors from office use, refurbishment of sash windows and front door and repointing of front facade brickwork and plastering and external insulation of rear return, internal alterations to remove non-original partitions and mezzanine and upgrading building services reusing existing pathways, new kitchen at ground floor with new window to rear and internal door relocated to original position off hall, installation of sanitary ware to 2nd & 3rd floor bathroom, new partition to bedrooms at 3rd floor, removal of return non original window & door, removal of external escape stairs and replacement with 1.8m high railing and gate to new bin area, new windows and stairs down to relocated back door and new rooflight to return walls raised by 1.55m in height and associated site works.

Granted0.0 km22 July 2022
3734/19

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of the provision of (a) a brass name plate to right hand side of entrance door; (b) an additional brass name plate on existing boundary railing; (c) erection of a 2.5m high wall mounted flagpole and associated flag and mounting bracket affixed to the front elevation of the building. The building is a Protected Structure.

Granted0.0 km07 October 2019
4689/22

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: The development will consist of works to a protected structure, a terraced single-pile three-bay four story over basement with basement well. Note: The house is sub-divided into 5 no. residential units. Works involve façade renewal/remedial works to the street elevational to include the removal of cementitious pointing and stopping mortars and repointing of brick using traditional Irish wig pointing in accordance with the specification and method statement from the appointed conservation architects.

Granted0.0 km13 October 2022
4489/19

PROTECTED STRUCTURE: Permission sought for internal alterations and change of use from residential to offices of area c.75 sq.m, at basement level only, in existing four storey over basement terraced building in use as offices of area c.386 sq.m, which is a Protected Structure, at the site comprising 6 Upper Mount Street, and 6 Stephens Place, Dublin 2. The internal alterations proposed include the removal of non-original doors and partitions, and the re-instatement of a timber stairs to connect basement and ground floors levels. No original fabric will be removed.

Granted0.0 km22 January 2020

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 13,335 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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Policy and mapped constraints

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Appeals and comparable decisions

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Deterministic risk prompts

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