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Site planning risk brief

St. Andrews National School, Chapel Hill, Lucan, Co. Dublin.

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

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Local planning pattern

13% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 3,742 decisions within 5 km, 8 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 857 structured appeals.

Matched source
SD18A/0132
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

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

8 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for South Dublin 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 South Dublin County 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 South Dublin County 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

857 structured nearby appeal records.

857 matched

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

Citations are current-dated and carry policy name, section, page and source URL from the South Dublin County Council development plan.

1 matched
3,742Nearby applications
8Site-linked candidates
13%Nearby refused
857Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Visual Amenity43
Residential Amenity29
Design17
Zoning Contravention12
Other8

Nearest planning decisions

SD18A/0132

Retention of change of use of existing single storey national school building premises from education to childcare facilities in classrooms and to recreational facility for mixed use in general purpose hall. Retention of 2 pre-fabs - Prefab No. 1 (southwest of site) to be retained as recreational facilities for mixed use, Prefab No. 2 (northeast of site) to be retained as childcare facility. Retention of boiler house extension. Retention of secure play area to north classrooms. Proposed signage and logo at east gable (at entrance) titled Canon Despard Centre within a curtilage that includes Protected Structure 025, James MacCarten memorial slab 1807 within a natural heritage area adjoining Liffey Valley.

Granted0.0 km15 June 2018
SD21A/0245

Retention of 2 prefabs as childcare facilities within the curtilage of a Protected Structure 025 - James MacCarten slab 1807 within a National Heritage Area adjoining Liffey Valley.

Granted0.0 km20 December 2021
SD24A/0161

Removal of existing prefabricated structure on site with replacement permanent detached two storey/dormer structure located to the south-west of the site for mixed flexible community uses (such as childcare/creche/playschool/community uses) and all associated site works. The development is within the curtilage of a site that includes a protected structure 025, James Mc Carten Memorial Slab 1807 and within a natural area adjoining the Liffey Valley.

Granted0.0 km27 January 2025
SD24A/0198

Permission for the removal of existing prefabricated structure on site with replacement permanent detached two storey/domer structure located to the north-east of the site for mixed flexible community uses (such as childcare/creche/playschool/community uses) and all associated site works. The development is within the curtilage of a site that includes protected structure 025, James Mc Carten memorial slab 1807 and within a natural heritage area adjoining the Liffey valley.

Granted0.0 km27 January 2025
SD20A/0142

Demolition of an existing house, Hillhouse, Lucan Road and ancillary outbuildings and the construction of one 4 storey building accommodating 20 apartments comprised of 5 one bedroom apartments and 15 two bedroom apartments. Vehicular access to the proposed development will be via Lucan Road and Lucan Heights with 13 car parking spaces and 12 bicycle parking spaces and ancillary services including a detached water storage tank and bin store housing all on a site of 0.1925ha.

Granted0.1 km28 January 2021
SD19A/0198

Demolition of existing house and ancillary out buildings and the construction of 1 four storey building accommodating 21 apartments comprised of 6 one bedroom apartments and 15 two bedroom apartments; vehicular access to the proposed development will be via Lucan Road with 13 car parking spaces and 12 bicycle parking spaces and ancillary services all on a site of 0.1925 hectares.

Refused0.1 km19 August 2019

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