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Site planning risk brief

Site Adjacent Esplanade Hotel , Strand Road , Bray

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

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Local planning pattern

18% of nearby decided applications were refused. The site check found 1,830 decisions within 5 km, 17 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 399 structured appeals.

Matched source
201159
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

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

17 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Wicklow 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

Confirmed coverage

2 current citations from the Wicklow County Council development plan, each with section, page and source URL.

2 matched

Flood, heritage, ecology and archaeology

Partial coverage

3 of 4 layers are loaded for Wicklow 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

399 structured nearby appeal records.

399 matched

Current policy citations

Confirmed coverage

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

2 matched
1,830Nearby applications
17Site-linked candidates
18%Nearby refused
399Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Residential Amenity16
Traffic Sightlines15
Design14
Other10
Zoning Contravention10

Nearest planning decisions

201159

New 4 storey, 32 bedroom hotel, including three number apartments at third floor level, restaurant/café at ground floor level, semi-basement parking for 8 number vehicles and associated siteworks, together with permission for demolition of single storey commercial building to the front of the site and two storey residential building at the rear of site (Esplanade Hotel - Protected Structure)

Granted0.0 km04 August 2021
18308

Hoarding

Granted0.0 km30 April 2018
18546

Hoarding

Granted0.0 km05 July 2018
1970

Alterations to previously granted Reg Ref 16/333, part single, part two storey extension to the rear and side and all associated works

Granted0.0 km08 March 2019
23296

For the construction of a single storey extension to the side of the existing house and for widening of existing entrance to 4.326 metres and all ancillary site works

Granted0.1 km17 May 2023
211101

Bi-folding windows to north elevation and subsequent to that, planning permission for change of use from open storage area to takeaway restaurant of 11.8 sqm. Together with all associated ancillary works to facilitate the above at 'The Strand Hotel' (a protected structure)

Granted0.1 km27 October 2021

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 1,830 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.

Exact site history and boundary checks

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Policy and mapped constraints

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Appeals and comparable decisions

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Deterministic risk prompts

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