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Site planning risk brief

Scotch House , Pearse street , Ballina

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

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Local planning pattern

6% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 680 decisions within 5 km, 9 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 32 structured appeals.

Matched source
22597
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

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

9 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Mayo 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

One current citation from the Mayo 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 Mayo 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

32 structured nearby appeal records.

32 matched

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

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

1 matched
680Nearby applications
9Site-linked candidates
6%Nearby refused
32Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

22597

The development consists of the subdivision of first and second floor residence to Scotch House and construction of additional third floor roof level extensions to provide for a one bedroom apartment (no.1) at first floor level and a three bedroom duplex apartment (no.2) at second and third floor level with private external amenity spaces, including greenhouse to rear; construction of a centrally positioned single storey extension at first floor level to provide for a two bedroom apartment(no.3); construction of a two storey rear extension partially over auction house onto Maguire's Yard at first and second floor level to provide for two duplex two bedroom apartments (nos. 4 and 5); construction of two centrally positioned single storey extensions at second floor level to provide for a residents common room and a greenhouse; change of use of former auction house (83 sq.m) to the rear to a retail unit (retail A) with lane access and a second retail unit (retail B) with provision for new entrance off Maguire's Yard; partial change of use of rear service area to existing ground floor retail unit (38 sq.m) to provide for a communal space and lobby area serving the proposed upper floor residences and existing office and a revised internal layout for the rear service area corridor (4 sq.m) serving the existing ground floor café; provision for ramped, stepped and gated public access laneway between Pearse Street and Maguire's Yard; provision of residents external amenity space at first, second and third floor levels, all associated signage and lighting and connections to local engineering services.

Refused0.0 km04 May 2023
2560646

(1)The retention of the change of use of the second floor from a store to a kitchen for the restaurant below, (Planning permission reference P02/2236), and (2) carry out all ancillary site works at Tone Street, Ballina, Co. Mayo.

Granted0.1 km03 December 2025
21243

CHANGE THE LAYOUT OF THE RESIDENTIAL 3RD FLOOR PLAN OF EXISTING BUILDING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER P00/2085 FROM A SINGLE 2 BEDROOMED APARTMENT TO 3 NO. ONE BED STUDIO APARTMENTS, TOGETHER WITH ALL ASSOCIATED ELEVATIONAL ALTERATIONS AND ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS

Granted0.1 km06 September 2021
21410

RETENTION OF EXISTING YELLOW BOLLARDS ALONG PAWN OFFICE LANE INCLUDING ALL OTHER ASSOCIATED WORKS AND SERVICES

Granted0.1 km05 April 2022
2498

Install a new internal ATM and associated alterations to existing internal ATM with proposed signage and all associated site works (NIAH protected structure ref no. 31204066)

Granted0.1 km29 May 2024
23608

Install a new external ATM with associated signage and new surround panel to the front elevation of the building and all associated site works

Refused0.1 km03 January 2024

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 680 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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Deterministic risk prompts

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