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Site planning risk brief

The Plaza , Headford Road , Galway

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

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Local planning pattern

14% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 2,904 decisions within 5 km, 10 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 331 structured appeals.

Matched source
23248
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

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

10 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Galway City 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 Galway City Council, so this brief makes no current policy claim and relies on decision history.

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

3 of 4 layers are loaded for Galway City Council and were intersected with the site; flood is not loaded and no conclusion is drawn for it.

3 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

331 structured nearby appeal records.

331 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

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

2,904Nearby applications
10Site-linked candidates
14%Nearby refused
331Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

23248

Permission for development which consists of:- Partial amalgamation of the existing licensed discount food store (Unit 1) and adjoining retail unit (Unit 2) on the ground floor and associated change of use of extended Unit 1 area to convenience retail. Amended floor areas as follows: Increase in Unit 1 floor area by 618m2 to provide a gross floor area of 1832m2 and Decrease in Unit 2 floor area by584m2 to provide a gross floor area by 629m2. Demolition of existing Unit 1 Entrance Pod (20 sq.m). Relocation of existing permitted signage on the front elevation. Provision of freestanding trolley bay. Alterations to external fenestration of Unit's 1 & 2. Reconfiguration and realignment of existing carpark. Relocation of the existing Unit 1 store entrance; and All associated site development works

Granted0.0 km25 March 2024
18177

Permission for development consisting of replacing existing fascia signs with new brand signs, addition of customer entrance feature, repainting of building & refurbishment of boundary railings

Granted0.1 km24 July 2018
21219

Permission for development which will consist of construction of a new car wash and office units, including new advertisement signage to ground floor fascia at Side Elevation (West) and Front Elevation (South) including site and ancillary works

Granted0.1 km30 November 2021
20184

Large Scale development please see Application for full description

Granted0.1 km11 February 2021
21280

Permission for retention which will consist of retention permission for up to a 2 year period from the date of August 29th 2020 for the use of site as a car park for public use (53 no parking spaces) to include advertising signage, pay and display unit and height restriction barriers

Refused0.1 km22 October 2021
17267

Permission for retention for up to a 5 year period, for the use of their site at the Headford Road (formerly ESSO garage site) in townland of Townparks, Galway, as a car park for public use (53 no parking spaces) to include advertising signage, pay & display unit and height restriction barriers

Granted0.1 km03 September 2018

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 2,904 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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