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Site planning risk brief

Lands on existing residence known as 'The White House', Whitechurch Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16

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

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Local planning pattern

11% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 6,648 decisions within 5 km, 16 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2342 structured appeals.

Matched source
SD18B/0320
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 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

Register indexed

1 prompt is backed by extracted nearby decision evidence; all prompts remain checks, not predictions.

1 matched

Structured appeal history

Confirmed coverage

2342 structured nearby appeal records.

2,342 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
6,648Nearby applications
16Site-linked candidates
11%Nearby refused
2,342Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity7
Traffic Sightlines7
Visual Amenity6
Density3
Design3

Nearest planning decisions

SD18B/0320

Reconfiguration of/alterations to the existing 2-storey house and extension at ground and first floor level to provide the following: New utility room, enlarge porch, living areas, master bedroom, bathroom and circulation areas at ground floor level. The existing kitchen/dining/living area and toilet to be retained at ground floor level; 3 additional bedrooms and circulation areas at first floor level. 2 existing bedrooms and bathroom to be retained at first floor level; Associated alterations to/provision of windows and doors throughout and associated works at roof level; Provision of a decking area and decorative garden pool at ground floor level; A total of 6 bedrooms are now provided. The total gross floor area of the house is c.536sq.m; No change to the existing vehicular/ pedestrian access; All associated site development works, services provision, landscaping/ boundary treatment works. All on a site of c.0.514 ha on lands comprising an existing residence known as "The White House". The existing dwelling is located north-west of a protected structure (RPS No. 352).

Refused0.0 km11 September 2018
SD19B/0095

Reconfiguration of/alterations to two storey house and extension at ground and first floor level to provide the following; utility room, living areas, playroom/study, master bedroom, bathroom, toilet, storage areas, circulation areas and the removal of existing porch at ground floor level; the kitchen/dining/living area to be retained at ground floor level; 2 additional bedrooms, circulation areas and roof patio at first floor level; 3 existing bedrooms and 2 bathrooms to be retained at first floor level; associated alterations to/provision of windows and doors throughout and associated works at roof level; provision of decking and patio areas at ground floor level; total of 6 bedrooms are now provided; total gross floor area of the house is c. 405.86sq.m.; no change to the existing vehicular/pedestrian access; all associated site development works, services provision, landscaping/boundary treatment works.

Refused0.0 km07 May 2019
SD22B/0210

Single storey pool house extension to the side of the existing dwelling with rooflight, external hard and soft landscaping and all associated drainage and site works

Granted0.0 km11 October 2022
SD19A/0349

Removal of the temporary wooden access ramp to the southern side of Whitechurch Parish Church in order to construct a new permanent access ramp and steps; Whitechurch Parish Church is a Protected Structure.

Granted0.1 km17 December 2019
SD19A/0105

Construction of a residential development of 62 units: demolition of the existing house, Coill Avon, and the construction of 28 three bedroom, two storey terraced houses; 3 four bedroom, two storey with dormer end of terrace houses and 3 four bedroom, three storey end of terrace houses, ranging in size from 110sq.m to 178sq.m with in curtilage car parking and 9 visitor car parking spaces; 16 two bed apartments over four floors (Block A), 7 one bed apartments, 5 two bed apartments over three floors and one community room (Block B) with 30 car parking spaces; bin store; secure bicycle parking; open space in two locations including woodland area of 1,795sq.m and a Green of 708sq.m; new boundary treatment; landscaping and all associated service provision including two substations and alterations to the shared access and vehicular bridge to Coill Avon and Lynbrook on a site of 1.76 hectares (1.6 hectares application site and balance 0.16 hectares includes a section of the public road to facilitate connection to the public foul drainage system).

Refused0.1 km21 May 2019
SD22A/0403

Two 2 storey dwellings and associated site works on the site and adjacent to an existing 2 storey dwelling. (For clarity the existing dwelling Lynbrook is to remain). Proposed dwellings A: 4 bedrooms 241sqm, B: 5 bedrooms 240sqm. Access is proposed to be by an existing driveway from the Whitechurch Road serving the existing dwelling on site. The driveway will be extended to serve the proposed dwellings, 4 car parking spaces, on site drainage treatment, additional soft and hard landscaping are proposed.

Granted0.1 km22 February 2023

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