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Site planning risk brief

St. Joseph's Terrace , Rathwire Lower , Co. Westmeath

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 196 decisions within 5 km, 6 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 4 structured appeals.

Matched source
2560212
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

4 structured nearby appeal records.

4 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

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

196Nearby applications
6Site-linked candidates
12%Nearby refused
4Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

2560212

Development which will consist of the demolition of an existing single storey dwelling (64 sqm GIA) and the construction of 6 no. residential units, comprising 4 no. terraced townhouses and 2 no. apartment dwellings (total 547 sqm GIA), with associated car parking, refuse storage, landscaping, boundary treatments, new vehicular access onto Meadowvale via existing dropped kerb, and all associated ancillary site and ground works

Granted0.0 km14 May 2026
196261

Change of use from commercial to residential and retention of the existing lounge and sanitary facilities, partial demolition of said existing ground floor commercial unit, sanitary facilities and smoking area, to construct 1 No. one bedroom dwelling to the south with a proposed main entrance to the front façade, 1 no two bedroom dwelling to the rear and a one bedroom extension to the existing one bedroom dwelling to the west. Permission is also sought to carry out all associated site works

Granted0.0 km14 February 2020
186337

For change of use from commercial to residential and retention of internal alterations made to 2 no. commercial units total floor area of 53m2 to 1 no. residential unit total floor area 53m2. Retention is also sought for external amendments to said previously granted commercial unit's shop front, file ref 99/578

Granted0.0 km10 January 2019
206340

Permission is sought for change of use of existing bar from commercial to residential use. The application also includes retention for previously constructed works to the north and east elevations respectively with internal alterations and external alterations to said elevations

Granted0.1 km19 March 2021
196346

Retention of works that have been constructed and complete the following, retention for 6 no. dwelling houses as constructed and completion of same and all ancillary site works

Granted0.1 km18 February 2020
176193

For the following at Main Street, Rathwire, Co. Westmeath. (1) Demolish the existing half round roofed shed on site, (2) construct 4 no. 2 bed 2 storey terraced houses along the site frontage with the public road and 2 no. 2 bed single storey houses to the rear, (3) all associated carparking, (4) access roadway and entrance onto public road, (5) connections to the existing public drainage infrastructure and (6) all ancillary site works.

Granted0.1 km17 January 2018

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 196 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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