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Site planning risk brief

Westside Shopping Centre , Seamus Quirke Road , Galway

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

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Local planning pattern

15% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 2,798 decisions within 5 km, 10 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 314 structured appeals.

Matched source
18107
Project type
One-off house
Coverage
5 km radius

What this site brief can substantiate today

Each section reports its own coverage. “Not yet covered” means no conclusion is drawn while source datasets or policy extraction are still being loaded.

Applications tied to the site

Partial coverage

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

10 matched

Zoning and settlement

Not yet covered

Current indexed zoning and settlement layers are intersected with the selected site where coverage exists.

Rural-housing policy

Not yet covered

Current section-and-page citations have not yet been loaded for this authority.

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Not yet covered

Each layer reports its own coverage; missing coverage never appears as a clean result.

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

314 structured nearby appeal records.

314 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

Historic extracted references are not presented as current policy; verified citations are still being loaded.

2,798Nearby applications
10Site-linked candidates
15%Nearby refused
314Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

18107

Permission for the development of a single storey, free standing café with access from existing shopping centre carpark. The development will also include the provision of external signage as well as undertaking all associated landscaping, as well as all associated site development works and services

Granted0.0 km08 November 2018
2460365

Permission for LRD development which consists of; A proposed Large-Scale Residential Development (LRD) comprising amendments to a permitted Strategic Housing Development (SHD) scheme of 240 no. student accommodation bedspaces and a café (ABP-313286-22 refers). The amendments to the permitted development will consist of: (1) Reduction in the ground floor area from 1,645m2 to 1578m2 (67m2 reduction) by setting back the southern curtain walling to facilitate services diversion in the south-west corner of the building. (2) Internal layout changes at ground floor level including the omission of the café use. (3) Reduction in the floor to floor heights on upper floors, resulting in an overall building height reduction of approximately 1 metre. (4) Adjustments to stair/lift core layouts to comply with fire safety requirements with minor internal layout adjustments in floors 1 – 6. (5) Elevational changes including fenestration alterations, replacement of aluminium spandrels with brick spandrels and addition of transom lines in curtain walling. (6) Omission of telecommunication masts at roof level, replacement of rainscreen cladding with brick finish and inclusion of solar panels. (7) Minor modification to landscaping and parking spaces related to fire tender and vehicle tracking. (8) All site development works above and below ground necessary to facilitate the proposed development. This application for the proposed amendments to the consented Strategic Housing Development (ABP 313286-22 refers), is a Large-scale Residential Development as defined under Section 2 of the Planning & Development Act 2000, as amended.

Granted0.0 km16 January 2025
18109

Permission for works which will consist of cladding over existing roof with composite aluminium panels including a small increase in ridge height with additional internally illuminated roof signage to East and West facing Elevations and the relocation of existing signage to North Elevation. Extension to existing collection booth (2.8 sq.m) with brick finish to match existing. New glazing and sliding doors to extended entrance lobby to replace existing entrance lobby (1.4 sq.m). Alterations to existing corral, to be reduced in width and extended to match building line. Demolition of existing remote Corral (18 sq.m.) to be replaced with new remote corral (35.6 sq.m) with new doors and closed panel fencing on concrete slab. Alterations to existing drive thru lane to create side by side ordering points, additional order point with canopy, 2 no. 1 bay 3 sided internally illuminated menu signs to replace existing 3 bay internally illuminated menu sign and 3 no existing Totem signs to be relocated and associated site works

Granted0.0 km01 June 2018
22133

Permission for development which will consist of refurbishment works principally comprising: the upgrade of the southern elevation and a portion of the western elevation including the replacement of the existing cladding and the provision of new/replacement signage and landscaping works in the ancillary carpark

Granted0.1 km11 July 2022
20111

Permission for development which will consist of (1) Permission for subdivision and partial change of use of vacant restaurant and take-away unit, to provide for 2 no. separate take-away units, (2) Permission for revised signage and alterations to front and rear elevations to serve the proposed 2 no. take-away units, together with all associated site works and services

Granted0.1 km06 July 2020
18215

Permission to render façade of forecourt building at existing Auto24 Service Station and to include signage, lighting and all associated operating equipment

Granted0.1 km22 August 2018

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 2,798 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. €29 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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