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Site planning risk brief

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

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Local planning pattern

17% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 1,367 decisions within 5 km, 4 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 240 structured appeals.

Matched source
F22A/0317
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

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

4 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

240 structured nearby appeal records.

240 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
1,367Nearby applications
4Site-linked candidates
17%Nearby refused
240Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity24
Visual Amenity24
Design21
Other20
Traffic Sightlines19

Nearest planning decisions

F22A/0317

The retention of the existing storage building, offices, staff welfare

Zoning ContraventionVisual AmenityOther
Refused0.0 km17 August 2022
F25A/1087E

Retention planning permission required for: (i) the change of use of 2

Refused0.2 km20 January 2026
F25A/0728E

Retention planning permission required for: (i) the change of use of 2

Refused0.2 km30 September 2025
F17B/0265

Retention permission for the second floor (attic) bedrooms with 5 no.

Granted0.3 km16 January 2018
F25A/0417E

The development will consist of a single-storey extension, an area of

Granted0.3 km20 January 2026
F21A/0499

Demolition of an existing detached garage, construction of a new two s

Refused0.3 km09 November 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 1,367 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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