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Site planning risk brief

McKenna's Arch , Low Street , Thomastown

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

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Local planning pattern

12% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 337 decisions within 5 km, 16 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 27 structured appeals.

Matched source
22369
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

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

16 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Kilkenny 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 Kilkenny 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 Kilkenny 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

27 structured nearby appeal records.

27 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

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

337Nearby applications
16Site-linked candidates
12%Nearby refused
27Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

22369

For (1) Retention Permission to retain indefinitely an existing two storey bedsit to rear of the site and (2) Planning Permission for a change of use of the existing ground floor commercial unit to residential use, internal and external alterations to the existing townhouse to create a 4 bedroom dwelling house, removal of the existing fire escape stairs to the rear of the townhouse, internal and external alterations to the existing two storey bedsit to the rear of the site including raising the height of the external perimeter walls at eaves level and replacing the flat corrugated metal roof with a new slate covered pitched roof and all associated site works

Granted0.0 km31 May 2023
2560069

To demolish an existing outbuilding and construct a two-storey extension to the rear of my existing townhouse to form a family flat, connection to existing services and all associated site works

Refused0.0 km07 April 2025
21318

For a change of use to convert the existing shop to a single residential dwelling. The proposed area for the change of use is approximately 128 sm. The building is located within the Thomastown Architectural Conservation Area

Granted0.0 km11 June 2021
20751

For development. The development will consist of: creating a bathroom in the corner of a rear bedroom, reconstructing the French doors at the rear and adding a cast iron railing adjacent these doors. The building is a Protected Structure (C237) located within the Thomastown Architectural Conservation Area

Granted0.0 km16 December 2020
2560707

To modify existing front/street elevation to include new single door and internal lobby to access first floor, new first floor bedroom extension to the rear/east elevation and all associated site development works at Dino's Takeaway

Granted0.0 km26 February 2026
21904

For development. The proposed development will consist of the erection of a fabric awning of approximately 3.5m wide and 1.5m in depth to the front of the premises. The building is located within the Thomastown Town Centre Architectural Conservation Area

Granted0.1 km10 March 2022

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 337 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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