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Site planning risk brief

Units 2 - 10, Ballyowen Castle Shopping Centre, Castle Road, Ballyowen, Lucan, Dublin

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 3,774 decisions within 5 km, 46 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 1064 structured appeals.

Matched source
SD24A/0004
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

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

46 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

1064 structured nearby appeal records.

1,064 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
3,774Nearby applications
46Site-linked candidates
12%Nearby refused
1,064Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Visual Amenity33
Residential Amenity27
Design15
Zoning Contravention11
Traffic Sightlines10

Nearest planning decisions

SD24A/0004

Single storey extension to front/side of units 2 to 10 and change of use from Retail/Pharmacy to Doctors/Medical use to proposed extended Unit 10. The proposal involves works within the curtilage of a protected structure. (Ballyowen Castle RPS Ref. No. 105). Previous Granted Planning Ref. No. SD17A/0405

Granted0.0 km02 September 2024
SD17A/0405/EP

Single storey extension and new canopy to front/side of units 1 to 10. The proposal involves works within the curtilage of a protected structure. (Ballyowen Castle RPS Ref. No. 105).

Refused0.0 km24 July 2023
SD17A/0405

Single storey extension and new canopy to front/side of units 1 to 10. The proposal involves works within the curtilage of a protected structure. (Ballyowen Castle RPS Ref. No. 105).

Granted0.0 km16 January 2018
SD20A/0235

Retention of erection of 457sq.m of photovoltaic panels on the roof of existing building with all associated site works.

Granted0.0 km10 November 2020
SD19A/0266

Change of use from retail pharmacy to coffee shop/café use, including extension to front and side as per granted planning Ref. no. SD17A/0405 and all associated works. The proposal involves works within the curtilage of a Protected Structure (Ballyowen Castle: RPS Ref. No. 105)

Granted0.0 km14 October 2019
SD19A/0220

Alterations to dental centre involving changes to front and side elevations consisting of relocation of entrance from the west to the southwest of building; erection of 8 air conditioning units to external wall on east elevation; all associated site works.

Granted0.0 km03 September 2019

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 3,774 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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