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Site planning risk brief

Main street , Portarlington , Co. Laois

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

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Local planning pattern

9% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 552 decisions within 5 km, 6 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 35 structured appeals.

Matched source
2560856
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

35 structured nearby appeal records.

35 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

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

552Nearby applications
6Site-linked candidates
9%Nearby refused
35Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

2560856

Change the use of the former post office air code R3 2P57 a protective structure RPS127 to a café/restaurant and by taking additional floor area from the ground floor of the 3 Storey 2 bay house a protected structure RPS681. The omission of floor area from the house protective structure RPS 681 for the change of use of the former post office will be 27 m². The works to create a small 15 m² rear single story Lean 2 extension to the rear of the former post office containing customer WC accessible toilet bounded by a new 2.1 m stone wall capped that is creating a 25 m² outdoor space the proposed to carry out the site development works

Granted0.0 km10 March 2026
19319

Change use of a vacant AIB bank and the adjacent vacant House (former Rectory/Apartments) to apartments, comprised of one nr., 1 bedroom apartment in the banking hall, two nr. 2 bedroom apartments, two nr. 1 bedroom apartment and two nr. studio apartments in the house and the construction of a new three storey apartment block containing three nr. 2 bedroom apartments and associated site works. The development works will include the demolition of a single storey rear extension and two-storey return, the reconstruction of a collapsed section to the rear of the house, general restoration and conservation works to the bank and house. The works are within the site of two protected structures RPS 128_A and RPS 128_B

Granted0.1 km18 October 2019
2260026

Alter previous permission Planning Reference 19/319; the change entails the Change of Use from a vacant AIB Bank to one nr., 2-bedroom apartment in the Banking Hall from the previously granted one nr., 1-bedroom apartment at Main Street, Portarlington. The development works include general restoration and conservation works. The alteration to permission is within the site of a protected structure RPS 128_B.

Granted0.1 km10 February 2023
17488

Change use of betting office to two one bedroom apartments. This building is a protected structure (ref RPS 106)

Granted0.1 km30 May 2018
17520

Retain partial demolition and amalgamation of the 2 no. two storey terraced dwellings (1 no. 2 bed and 1 no. 3 bed) (b) FULL PERMISSION for the full demolition of 2 no. two storey mid-terrace dwellings and (c) FULL PERMISSION for construction of 1 no. 2 storey, 3 bedroom mid terrace dwelling

Granted0.1 km05 January 2018
2011

Retain extension to public house, toilets building, stage with retractable roof, store room and all associated site works to the rear of the Anvil Inn (A protected structure, NIAH no.: 12900210)

Granted0.1 km01 February 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 552 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.

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