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Site planning risk brief

Hacketts Building (Ground Floor only) , Main Street , Portarlington

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 550 decisions within 5 km, 24 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 35 structured appeals.

Matched source
17488
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

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

24 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

35 structured nearby appeal records.

35 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.

550Nearby applications
24Site-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

17488

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

Granted0.0 km30 May 2018
20265

Create café and seated area and all associated site works in part of Mooneys shop

Granted0.0 km23 July 2020
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.

Granted0.0 km10 February 2023
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

Granted0.0 km18 October 2019
17718

Change use of existing first floor offices (known formerly as "Block A", and "Block B") accessed via 2 separate ground floor entrance doors and previously granted under planning Ref; 041571 into 2 no. 3 bedroom 2 storey residential apartments. The application also applies for RETENTION of development for an existing 2nd floor office storage area and applies for PERMISSION for development for an increase of floor area of 14 m2 on the second floor and the allocation of 3 no. parking spaces off site along with all associated site development works

Granted0.0 km12 December 2018
18146

Change from office to retail

Granted0.1 km02 May 2018

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 550 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.

Exact site history and boundary checks

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Policy and mapped constraints

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Appeals and comparable decisions

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Deterministic risk prompts

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