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Site planning risk brief

Block A Unit 2 Barrow Valley Retail Park , Sleaty Road , Graiguecullen Carlow

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 845 decisions within 5 km, 5 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 47 structured appeals.

Matched source
23277
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

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Laois 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

Not yet covered

No verified rural-housing citation is loaded for Laois County Council, so this brief makes no current policy claim and relies on decision history.

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

2 of 4 layers are loaded for Laois 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

47 structured nearby appeal records.

47 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

No current-dated citation is loaded for Laois County Council. Historic references extracted from decisions are never presented as current policy.

845Nearby applications
5Site-linked candidates
9%Nearby refused
47Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity4
Zoning Contravention3
Traffic Sightlines2
Density1
Design1

Nearest planning decisions

23277

Change the use of existing double height Retail Warehouse to Retail use consisting of existing Ground floor of 491m2 and existing Mezzanine of 199m2 with additional extension of mezzanine of 274m2 totalling 864m2 on both floors with 2 no. new shopfront openings to existing Ground Floor façade with ancillary accommodation and vertical access

Granted0.0 km17 October 2024
18388

Change use from existing retail unit over two floors (originally Lifestyle) to a physiotherapy clinic on ground and first floor, external signage and all associated site works

Granted0.1 km14 February 2019
2560178

(a) Retain portacabin (43 sqm), ramp, and Armco barrier located within the Dunnes Stores Supermarket Service Yard. The portacabin is used as an Online Pick Room (i.e. for the processing and storage of online click-and-collect grocery orders), (b) Permission to extend the service yard’s overhead canopy, and (c) All other associated and ancillary site/development works.

Granted0.1 km05 August 2025
2460455

Construct a standalone café/restaurant unit with an overall height of c. 4m and a gross floor area of 102 sq.m, to be located within the central section of the car park of Barrow Valley Retail Park. The proposal includes signage for the unit, associated outdoor seating area, a bin store, plant and landscaping. The development includes the removal of 39 no. existing car parking spaces, provision of 1 no. new car parking spaces to the south of the proposed café/restaurant unit, 8 no. cycle parking spaces, associated alterations to the car park, provision of pedestrian crossing and all associated site works.

Granted0.1 km10 March 2025
19244

Construct a domestic garage/store and all associated site works

Granted0.1 km19 June 2019
21212

Retain a single storey detached domestic games room / gym/ office/storage area and all associated site works

Granted0.2 km24 May 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 845 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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