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Site planning risk brief

Oakway Test Centre, Lower Ballymount Road, Walkinstown, Dublin 12, D12 KDN8

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 7,584 decisions within 5 km, 15 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 2199 structured appeals.

Matched source
SD25A/0283
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

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

15 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

2199 structured nearby appeal records.

2,199 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
7,584Nearby applications
15Site-linked candidates
11%Nearby refused
2,199Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity1
Traffic Sightlines1

Nearest planning decisions

SD25A/0283

Alterations to the building to facilitate the conversion of the existing Test Centre into a ''Drive - Through'' Test Centre in line with incoming RSA/CVRT regulatory policy. The alterations are mostly internal, including the re-positioning of partitions and the vehicular test equipment to facilitate the proposed 'drive - through' circulation route. Externally, there are alterations to the front facade including the removal of the glazed screen of the existing disused showroom and the insertion in that area of two new vehicular openings that will be similar to the one existing vehicular opening.

Granted0.0 km21 January 2026
SD21A/0089

Erection of signage on the front (southern elevation) of the building, including a trough light for external illumination of the sign at first floor level; reuse of the existing signage structure at the southern, roadside boundary of the site for user and directional signage; this will be a double sided sign; all associated works. The proposed signage relates to the use permitted under Reg. Ref. SD21A/0003.

Granted0.1 km04 August 2021
SD20A/0216/EP

Extend the existing service workshop to provide additional service bays and covered secure parking.

Refused0.1 km04 February 2026
SD20A/0216

Extend the existing service workshop to provide additional service bays and covered secure parking.

Granted0.1 km12 April 2021
SD21A/0003

Use of the premises as a warehouse with ancillary trade counters (for the sale of building related products principally to trade); internal alterations include general reconfiguration of the space to create trade counters and warehouse space including new stairs and lift core; external changes include new entrance door and ramp at south west corner; new ramp and new entrance door at existing point of entry on the south elevation; on the west elevation placement of new condensers and minor alterations to the existing entry point; all ancillary works associated with the development.

Granted0.1 km10 March 2021
SD22A/0462

Works to a commercial warehouse to include demolition of existing extension and ancillary accommodation, internal alterations including general reconfiguration of the space to create ancillary office accommodation, trade counter and warehouse space, external alterations include installation of new cladding system, signage and reconfiguration of existing south and east elevations, all ancillary works associated with the development.

Granted0.1 km21 February 2023

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 7,584 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.

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