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Site planning risk brief

Site 4 Briarhill Business Park , Bothar na dTreabh , in the townlands of Ballybrit and Doughiska

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 1,780 decisions within 5 km, 5 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 153 structured appeals.

Matched source
20218
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

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

5 matched

Zoning and settlement

Partial coverage

1 of 2 layers are loaded for Galway City 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 Galway City 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 Galway City 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

153 structured nearby appeal records.

153 matched

Current policy citations

Not yet covered

No current-dated citation is loaded for Galway City Council. Historic references extracted from decisions are never presented as current policy.

1,780Nearby applications
5Site-linked candidates
17%Nearby refused
153Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

No reasons on record yet

More refusal reasons are being processed from public planning records.

Nearest planning decisions

20218

Permission is sought for the development which will consist of construction of an eight storey over basement, 186 no. bedroom hotel with below ground pool plant equipment, tank room, standby generator and pumping station (Gross Floor Area: c. 12,478sqm). The development includes for hotel uses on the ground floor including a reception area, lounge area, a restaurant, a bar, a lobby, toilet facilities, and back of house rooms. The ground floor also includes an LV switchroom, an MV switchroom, an ESB substation, a transformer/LV switchroom, a public entrance to the spa and spa facilities including a swimming pool, a whirlpool, a sauna/steam room, male and female changing rooms, and storage rooms. The first floor incorporates spa facilities including a treatment room, a studio, a gym, a lobby area, a storage area, 8 no. meeting rooms with associated reception area, an office, toilet facilities and a pantry. The upper floors incorporate 186 no. hotel bedrooms. The development also includes for a green roof, emergency fire escapes, an upgrade to the existing entrance/exit from the Business Park Campus, new guest vehicle entrance from the Business Park Campus to the north of the site, 2 no. new vehicle entrances from the west of the site, 153 no. car parking spaces, 3 no. set down spaces at the main entrance, service entrance layby to the west of the site, 28 no. cycle spaces, electrical vehicle charging spaces, pumping station kiosk, signage, associated landscaping and boundary treatments, and all other site development works and services ancillary to the proposed development

Granted0.0 km24 February 2022
2560065

Permission for development which consists of: the development will consist of internal works and change of use at ground and first floor level of Unit 21/22 (835sq.m) to medical and related uses with associated signage.

Granted0.1 km28 April 2025
18293

Permission for retention for first floor offices and all associated works, Previous Planning Ref. Nos. 932/98 & 806/97

Refused0.1 km20 February 2019
19331

Retention permission is being sought for a business hub including offices located in first floor unit. (Previous planning ref 932/98 & 97/806)

Granted0.1 km30 January 2020
20143

Permission is sought for the development which will consist of errecting signage to front and rear elevations

Granted0.1 km22 July 2020
23252

Permission for development which consists of change of use of first floor to gym/indoor recreation use to include all associated works and planning permission to erect advertising signage to front and rear elevations

Granted0.1 km09 February 2024

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 1,780 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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