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Site planning risk brief

Ballymakenny Road , Yellowbatter , Drogheda Co. Louth

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 1,433 decisions within 5 km, 6 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 126 structured appeals.

Matched source
221020
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

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

6 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

126 structured nearby appeal records.

126 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

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

1,433Nearby applications
6Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
126Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

221020

Permission for 4 commercial units in a 2,309.9 sqm single storey building with a maximum height of 9.8m, as follows: Unit 1 - Retail Unit with gross floor area of 92.1 sqm and a net retail sales area of 81.8 sqm. Unit 2 - Retail Unit with a gross floor area of 98 sqm and a net sales area of 87 sqm. Unit 3 - Coffee Shop/Restaurant with a gross floor area of 121.8 sqmand a new area of 104.4sqm. Unit 4 - Convenience/Food Store Retail outlet with a gross floor area of 1,998 sqm and a net sales area of 1,257.5 sqm, including off-license, stores, staff facilities, toilets together with a service yard and delivery area. 2 no. bin and 1 no. bike stores and 2 no. trolley bays: 98.5m gross floor area ancillary to the 4 no. commercial units. The proposed development also includes for a total of 177 no. car parking spaces, bicycle parking spaces, a new service access off Ballymakenny Road, public open space with associated landscaping, boundary treatments, all associated access roads, footpaths and cycle facilities, foul and surface water drainage and public lighting. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted with this application **Significant further information received on 19.6.23**

Granted0.0 km06 July 2023
2560530

The proposed development is a mixed-use commercial scheme consisting of 2 buildings with a combined gross floor area of 3,340sq.m. Building No.1 is a three-storey building with a gross floor area of 2273.6sq.m. and a maximum height of 15.95 m. It will have 2 retail units at ground floor level and a medical centre on the upper floors providing for separate medical and dental suites, consulting rooms and diagnostic scanning and imaging. Building No. 1 will also have a service yard at ground floor level including ESB substation and switch room with plant at roof level. Building No. 2 will be a two-storey building with a gross floor area of 1066.4sq.m. and have a maximum height of 9.225m. It will have 4 retail units on the ground floor, one of which will be reserved for takeaway food use, and office use at first floor level. The proposed scheme includes for bin & bike stores and 31 no. car parking spaces, a loading bay, landscaping, boundary treatments, all associated access roads, footpaths and cycle facilities, foul and surface water drainage, and public lighting etc.

Granted0.0 km13 October 2025
22440

Permission for development within the townland of Yellowbatter consisting of amendments to part of a permitted mixed use development previously approved under planning ref. no. 07/1399 (ABP ref. PL15.228370), extended by planning ref. no. 18/668 and amended by planning ref. 21/1212. This proposed development seeks to amend an apartment building on the southwest corner of Cluster H of the approved scheme, part of which is currently under construction, to include revised floor plans and elevations. The proposed amendments to the permitted scheme will result in the provision of an additional 2 bed apartment and accordingly it will increase the overall number of residential units within the scheme from 643 (as per ref. no. 21/1212) to 644. The proposed amendments include minor revisions to the associated site development works

Granted0.1 km21 July 2022
2460314

Permission for development, consisting of the construction of a 3 storey building accommodating 16-no. two and three bed apartments and duplex units, with on street car parking and all associated site development works etc. on a site measuring 0.33 ha, located within the “Ellwood Park” residential development, Ballymakenny Road, Drogheda, County Louth. Access to the proposed development will be via Ellwood Park, west of Ballymakenny Road

Granted0.1 km26 September 2024
2460184

Retention and completion of 21 no. 3 and 4 bed, 2 storey detached and semi- detached houses and all associated site development works, currently under construction, as previously permitted under ref. 21/1212, on a site area measuring 0.76 ha, located within the Ellwood Park residential development

Granted0.1 km04 July 2024
211212

Permission for amendments to part (approx. 2.79 HA) of a permitted mixed-use development previously approved under planning ref. 07/1399 (ABP Ref PL 15.228370), extended by planning ref. 18/668. This proposed development seeks to amend Clusters B & C of the approved scheme to include for the provision of a total of 74 residential units including 6 no. 4 bed houses; 42 no. 3 bed houses and 26 no. apartments (1-3 bed) in a single 3 & 4 storey block. The proposed amendments to the permitted scheme reduce the overall number of residential units proposed from 659 to 643 (a reduction of 16 residential units). The proposed alterations include for revised public open spaces and landscaping details, provision of ESB substation, revised roads and services layout, together with all associated site development works. The proposed development also seeks to amend the wording of condition 6 attached to planning ref. 071399 (ABP Ref PL 15228370)

Granted0.1 km12 November 2021

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