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Site planning risk brief

St. Joseph's De Porres , Ballyroan Dublin Road , Portlaoise

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

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Local planning pattern

5% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 878 decisions within 5 km, 16 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 39 structured appeals.

Matched source
17652
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

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

16 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Laois 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

Not yet covered

No verified rural-housing citation is loaded for Laois County 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 Laois County 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

39 structured nearby appeal records.

39 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

No current-dated citation is loaded for Laois County Council. Historic references extracted from decisions are never presented as current policy.

878Nearby applications
16Site-linked candidates
5%Nearby refused
39Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

17652

Change use from first floor staff room (comprised of a bridge between the commercial development currently underway to the east and the existing dwelling house to the west) to an extension to the restaurante/cafe and an amendment to the parking arrangement under planning Ref. 17/143 (condition nr. 15)

Refused0.0 km18 June 2018
20505

Change of use from first floor staff ( comprised of a bridge between the existing restaurant/ café and dwelling house) to an extension to the restaurant/café and the erection of a digital information screen on the existing pharmacy shopfront and associated parking/siteworks.

Granted0.0 km20 November 2020
18406

Locate a sign on the site frontage for the medical centre

Granted0.0 km29 August 2018
22383

Change use of first floor restaurant to 4 consultants suites, outpatient day surgery room and ancillary works (above Boston Health Centre & Boston Pharmacy)

Granted0.0 km10 August 2022
2510

Change of use of existing two storey joinery workshop to private Medical out patients Surgical Centre,works consisting of restorations, alterations, & extension to East & West elevation to existing concrete structure, removal of existing round roof & replacement with round roof (ridge height increase to match Boston Health Centre, two storey porch entrance extension on existing car park on south elevation & ancillary site works.

Granted0.0 km19 August 2025
21702

Change use from retail use (9 sq.m) to retail with ancillary off licence use

Granted0.0 km02 December 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 878 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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