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Site planning risk brief

Citywest Road and Magna Drive, Citywest, Dublin 24

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

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Local planning pattern

17% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 2,101 decisions within 5 km, 1 exact-site or onsite candidate record, and 973 structured appeals.

Matched source
SHD3ABP-306602-20
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

1 register record is within the point-match tolerance; a parcel boundary is needed to treat this as exact.

1 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

973 structured nearby appeal records.

973 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
2,101Nearby applications
1Site-linked candidates
17%Nearby refused
973Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

SHD3ABP-306602-20

Construction of a residential development of 463 dwellings comprising 353 apartments, 89 houses and 21 duplex apartments, creche (c.587.8sq.m) and community building (c.141sq.m) as follows: (A) 353 apartments in 7 apartment buildings (with balconies or terraces [including communal terraces] as follows: Block 1 (6 storeys with a part 7 storey level) of 57 apartments; Block 2(6 storeys with a part 7 storey level) of 47 apartments; Block 3 (6 storeys over undercroft/semi-basement with a part 7 storey level) of 56 apartments with car parking and ancillary plant/storage at basement level; Block 4 (6 storeys over undercroft/semi-basement with a part 7 storey level) of 56 apartments with car parking and ancillary plant/storage at basement level; Block 5 (6 storeys with a part 7 storey level) of 47 apartments; Block 6 (6 storeys over undercroft/semi-basement with a part 7 storey level) of 58 apartments with car parking and ancillary plant/storage at basement level; Block 7 is 6 storeys of 32 apartments (creche at ground and first floor) with outdoor play area. (B) 89 houses; House types 1A, 2A, 4, 4A- 3 storey to front [2 storey to rear] remainder of house types 2 storey. (C) 21 duplex apartments in 2 3-storey buildings. (D) Single storey community building including management office, 3 single storey ESB substations, single storey bicycle and bin stores. (E) 401 car parking spaces (including 3 car sharing spaces) to serve overall development and 364 bicycle spaces ([for apartments] with apartment bicycle storage provided internally at ground floor level for apartment blocks 1-7). (F) Provision of public open space areas within the development (including playground areas and communal open space areas); all ancillary landscape works, public lighting, planting and boundary treatments including regrading/re-profiling of site where required as well as provision of footpaths and cycle paths. (G) Vehicular access to the proposed development will be from the Citywest Road (N82) and will include pedestrian crossings and works to facilitate access (including vehicular and footpath/bridges over stream/ditch), secondary vehicular and pedestrian access to boundary to lands to north (currently under construction) and pedestrian to boundary to Magna Drive. (H) Provision of surface water and underground attenuation and all ancillary site development work. The application contains a statement setting out how the proposal will be consistent with the objectives of the relevant SDCC Development Plan.

Granted0.0 km26 May 2020
SD24A/0213

We, Rockface Developments Limited, intend to apply for Planning Permission for proposed roof mounted Solar PV Panels to the warehouse building as part of an overall previously permitted warehousing development at Magna Avenue and Magna Drive, City West Business Campus, Co Dublin. (Existing granted planning Reg.: SD22A/0065 with associated warehousing development works currently under construction on site). The subject elements for which Planning Permission is sought are as follows: Provision of 2,572No Monocrystalline Solar PV Panels to the warehouse roof with a total area of 5,658sqm. Elevations, Site plan & drainage layout remain unaltered, and the building area remains the same as per previous planning application.

Granted0.2 km24 October 2024
SD25B/0553W

The construction of a 31m2 shed in the rear garden to be used as a gym, and all associated site development works above and below ground.

Granted0.2 km06 November 2025
SD22A/0065

Provision of a warehouse unit with ancillary office and staff facilities and associated development. The building will have a maximum height of 15.5m with a gross floor area of 13,604sq.m including a warehouse area (12,568sq.m), staff facilities (489sq.m) and ancillary office area (538sq.m). The development will also include a vehicular and pedestrian entrance to the site from Magna Avenue, a separate HGV entrance from Magna Drive; 69 ancillary car parking spaces; covered bicycle parking; HGV parking and yards'; level access good doors; dock levellers; access gates; signage; hard and soft landscaping; lighting boundary treatments; ESB substation; sprinkler tank and pump house; an all associated site development works above and below ground.

Granted0.2 km11 July 2022
SD25A/0031W

Planning Permission for omission from a warehouse development site under construction of the superstructure associated with an ancillary sprinkler tank and pumphouse with substructure remaining as per granted planning application Reg. Ref. SD22A/0065 at Magna Avenue and Magna Drive, Citywest Business Campus, Co. Dublin.

Granted0.2 km07 April 2025
SD26A/0016W

Change of use of the ground floor of Unit C, Citywest Shopping Centre from its permitted Office use (permitted under South Dublin County Council Reg. Ref. SD03A/0857), to a Health Centre - specifically for the provision of support services to persons with intellectual disabilities.

Granted0.2 km16 March 2026

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