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Site planning risk brief

5 Rathbeale Cottages, Rathbeale Road, Swords, Co Dublin

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

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Local planning pattern

19% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 1,408 decisions within 5 km, 5 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 257 structured appeals.

Matched source
F21B/0093
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

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

5 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Fingal County Council and were intersected with the site; settlement boundary is not loaded and no conclusion is drawn for it.

1 matched

Rural-housing policy

Confirmed coverage

2 current citations from the Fingal County Council development plan, each with section, page and source URL.

2 matched

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

3 of 4 layers are loaded for Fingal County Council and were intersected with the site; flood is not loaded and no conclusion is drawn for it.

3 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

257 structured nearby appeal records.

257 matched

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

Citations are current-dated and carry policy name, section, page and source URL from the Fingal County Council development plan.

2 matched
1,408Nearby applications
5Site-linked candidates
19%Nearby refused
257Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity25
Visual Amenity24
Design22
Traffic Sightlines19
Other16

Nearest planning decisions

F21B/0093

Retention to retain rear two-storey extension, permission for propose

Granted0.0 km17 May 2021
F24A/0710E

Single storey rear extension to comprise of new entrance & hall with f

Granted0.0 km21 January 2025
F21B/0381

Permission for the construction of a single storey rear extension (c.

Granted0.0 km17 January 2022
F23B/0057

Planning permission for an attic conversion

Granted0.2 km22 June 2023
F18A/0701

Permission to omit 43 no. houses comprising 18 no 4-bedroom 2-storey h

Granted0.2 km03 July 2019
F20A/0574

Permission for external and elevational amendments to all facades of a

Granted0.2 km13 January 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 1,408 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.

Exact site history and boundary checks

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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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