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Site planning risk brief

FARMLEIGH WOODS , DRUMRAT , DONEGAL TOWN

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

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Local planning pattern

7% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 568 decisions within 5 km, 5 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 18 structured appeals.

Matched source
2650067
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

Not yet covered

No zoning and settlement layer is loaded for Donegal County Council; this brief draws on decision history instead and makes no mapped-constraint claim.

Rural-housing policy

Confirmed coverage

One current citation from the Donegal County Council development plan, with section, page and source URL.

1 matched

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

2 of 4 layers are loaded for Donegal 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

18 structured nearby appeal records.

18 matched

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

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

1 matched
568Nearby applications
5Site-linked candidates
7%Nearby refused
18Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

2650067

(1) ALTERATIONS TO THE LAYOUT AND HOUSE TYPES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 20/51766, IN THE AREA DEFINED BY HOUSE NUMBERS 30-46 TO PROVIDE FOR A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF UNITS FROM 17 TO 12 TO INCLUDE (A) 10 NO. SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY 4-BEDROOM HOUSE TYPES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION AND (B) 2 NO. DUPLEX TYPE 2-BEDROOM HOUSING UNITS IN A SINGLE TWO-STOREY BLOCK, AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED ROADS, FOOTPATHS, LIGHTING, SERVICES, AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

Granted0.0 km18 June 2026
2460645

(1) ALTERATIONS TO THE LAYOUT AND HOUSE TYPES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REF. NO. 20/51766, IN THE AREA DEFINED BY HOUSE NUMBERS 30-46 TO PROVIDE FOR A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF UNITS FROM 17 TO 12 TO INCLUDE: (A) 10 NO. SEMI-DETACHED TWO-STOREY 4-BEDROOM HOUSE TYPES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION AND (B) 2 NO. DUPLEX TYPE 2-BEDROOM HOUSING UNITS IN A SINGLE TWO-STOREY BLOCK, AND (2) ALL ASSOCIATED ROADS, FOOTPATHS, LIGHTING, SERVICES, AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

Granted0.0 km18 June 2024
2350535

DEVELOPMENT AT THE HOUSING ESTATE (UNDER CONSTRUCTION) KNOWN AS FARMLEIGH WOODS. THE DEVELOPMENT WILL CONSIST OF THE FOLLOWING: ALTERATIONS TO THE LAYOUT AND HOUSE TYPES PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING PERMISSION REFERENCE 20/51766, IN THE AREA DEFINED BY HOUSE NUMBERS 16-29 AS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED, TO PROVIDE FOR A REDUCTION IN THE NUMBER OF UNITS FROM 13 TO 11 AS FOLLOWS: PROVISION OF THE FOLLOWING HOUSE TYPES IN LIEU OF THE 13 UNITS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED: (1) 3 NO. DETACHED TWO STOREY 5 BEDROOM HOUSE TYPES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION, (2) 6 NO. SEMI-DETACHED TWO STOREY 4-BEDROOM HOUSE TYPES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION, (3) 2 NO. DUPLEX 2-BEDROOM HOUSING UNITS IN A SINGLE TWO STOREY BLOCK AND (4) TO INCLUDE ALL ASSOCIATED ROADS, FOOTPATHS, LIGHTING, SERVICES AND SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS

Granted0.1 km09 June 2023
1950913

CONSTRUCTION OF 40 MIXED TYPE HOUSING UNITS AS FOLLOWS; (1) 30 NO. TWO STOREY, 4-BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES WITH ATTIC ULITISATION (2) 6 NO. TWO STOREY, 5 BEDROOM DETACHED HOUSES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION (3) 4 NO. 2-BEDROOM, DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO, TWO STOREY BLOCKS. CONSTRUCTION OF ESTATE ROADS, FOOTPATHS AND OPEN GRASSED AREAS, ALL WITH VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS VIA THE FARMLEIGH PARK ROAD ONTO THE OLD LAGHY ROAD (L2065-1) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF BOUNDARIES, RETAINING STRUCTURES, STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND ATTENUATION WITH DISCHARGE INTO EXISTING PIPE NETWORK, FOUL WATER DRAINAGE AND CONNECTION INTO EXISTING MAINS PIPE NETWORK AND ALL ASSOCIATED PUBLIC LIGHTING, PUBLIC UTILITY NETWORKS SERVICES AND CONNECTIONS.

Granted0.1 km09 January 2020
2650066

CONSTRUCTION OF 45 MIXED TYPE HOUSING UNITS TO INCLUDE (1) 9 NO. TWO STOREY, 4 BEDROOM DETACHED HOUSES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION (2) 16 NO. TWO STOREY, 5 BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION (3) 10 NO. 2 BEDROOM, GROUND AND FIRST DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO STOREY BUILDINGS (4) 10 NO. 2 BEDROOM GROUND FLOOR DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO AND A HALF STOREY BUILDINGS (5) 10 NO. 3 BEDROOM TWO STOREY DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO AND A HALF STOREY BLOCKS (6) DEVELOPMENT OF ESTATE ROADS, FOOTPATHS AND OPEN GRASSED AND PLAY AREAS, ALL WITH VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS VIA THE FARMLEIGH PARK ROAD ONTO THE OLD LAGHEY ROAD (L-2065-1) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF BOUNDARIES, RETAINING STRUCTURES, STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND ATTENUATION WITH DISCHARGE INTO THE EXISTING PIPE NETWORK, FOUL WATER DRAINAGE AND CONNECTION INTO THE EXISTING MAINS PIPE NETWORK, MAINS WATER SUPPLY PIPES AND ALL ASSOCIATED PUBLIC LIGHTING, PUBLIC UTILITY NETWORKS SERVICES AND CONNECTIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

Granted0.1 km18 June 2026
2051766

CONSTRUCTION OF 47 MIXED TYPE HOUSING UNITS TO INCLUDE (1) 7 NO. TWO STOREY, 4 BEDROOM DETACHED HOUSES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION (2) 16 NO. TWO STOREY, 5 BEDROOM SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES WITH ATTIC UTILISATION (3) 4 NO. 2 BEDROOM, GROUND AND FIRST DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO STOREY BUILDINGS (4) 10 NO. 2 BEDROOM GROUND FLOOR DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO AND A HALF STOREY BUILDINGS (5) 10 NO. 3 BEDROOM TWO STOREY DUPLEX APARTMENT UNITS IN TWO AND A HALF STOREY BLOCKS (6) DEVELOPMENT OF ESTATE ROADS, FOOTPATHS AND OPEN GRASSED AND PLAY AREAS, ALL WITH VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN ACCESS VIA THE FARMLEIGH PARK ROAD ONTO THE OLD LAGHEY ROAD (L-2065-1) AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE DEVELOPMENT WORKS, INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION OF BOUNDARIES, RETAINING STRUCTURES, STORM WATER DRAINAGE AND ATTENUATION WITH DISCHARGE INTO THE EXISTING PIPE NETWORK, FOUL WATER DRAINAGE AND CONNECTION INTO THE EXISTING MAINS PIPE NETWORK, MAINS WATER SUPPLY PIPES AND ALL ASSOCIATED PUBLIC LIGHTING, PUBLIC UTILITY NETWORKS SERVICES AND CONNECTIONS AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE AND INFRASTRUCTURAL WORKS. A NATURA IMPACT STATEMENT (NIS) ACCOMPANIES THIS APPLICATION

Granted0.1 km01 April 2021

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