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Site planning risk brief

Former Bray Golf Club Lands , Off Ravenswell Road and Dublin 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 2,043 decisions within 5 km, 4 exact-site or onsite candidate records, and 513 structured appeals.

Matched source
SH202103
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

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

4 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

513 structured nearby appeal records.

513 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
2,043Nearby applications
4Site-linked candidates
18%Nearby refused
513Structured appeals

Top refusal reasons nearby

Design14
Residential Amenity14
Traffic Sightlines13
Other9
Zoning Contravention9

Nearest planning decisions

SH202103

Change of use of lands from golf course use to residential and other uses consisting of 591 no. residential units and c. 1,336 sq.m of other uses comprising of a retail unit, 2 no. commercial units, a childcare facility and a café. The development will comprise of 76 no. houses consisting of 13 no. 2-bedroom 2-storey terraced houses, 51 no. 3-bedroom 2-storey terraced houses and 12 no. 4-bedroom 3-storey terraced houses; 26 no. 2-bedroom own door ground floor apartments with 26 no. 3-bedroom own door duplex apartments over resulting in 52 no. units with balconies and gardens within 26 no. 3 storey terraced buildings; and 4 no. apartment blocks ranging in height from 3 to 8-storeys and containing 463 no. units consisting of 171 no 1-bedroom units, 288 no. 2-bedroom units and4 no. 3-bedroom units. The proposed development will include: • 551 no. ancillary car parking spaces • 14 no. Resident motorcycle spaces at undercroft level • 1,184 no. Bicycle parking spaces The proposed development will also include all associated plant; refuse storage areas; communal open space; public open space; playgrounds; multi-use games area; associated internal roads and drainage arrangements; facilitating utility connections, facilitating linkages with adjoining sites; landscaping; public lighting; construction compounds and all site development works

Granted0.0 km01 November 2021
20672

Mixed use development of residential (603 units), community and commercial and all other associated works on a site of c.15.99 hectares

Granted0.1 km07 September 2020
2560681

Amendments to the Strategic Housing Development permitted under ABP-311181-21. The retention permission for amendments sought to Block C comprise of: A. Relocation of the vehicular entrance to the under-croft car park for Block C. B. Reconfiguration and changes of uses at the ground floor layout of Block C resulting in: - an increase in gross floor area of the permitted childcare facility from 627 sqm to 672 sqm; - the relocation of the permitted café unit and an increase in gross floor area from 195 sqm to 228 sqm; - the relocation of the permitted convenience retail unit and an increase in gross floor area from 249 sqm to 420 sqm; and - the relocation and reconfiguration of ancillary uses. These changes have resulted in a net increase in gross floor area of 249 sqm (45 sqm increase to the childcare facility use, 33 sqm increase to the café use, 171 sqm increase to the convenience retail use) but with no change to the building footprint. C. Minor alterations to the ground floor external elevations to reflect relocation of vehicular entrance, reconfiguration of internal uses impacting on the positions of windows and door openings and addition of 2 no. external on-street car parking spaces

Granted0.1 km09 October 2025
ABP31468622

The proposed development will consist of the change of use of lands from former

Granted0.1 km19 August 2024
2560207

Mixed-use development comprising 341 no. residential units, commercial spaces (total gross floor area c. 10,778 sq.m), retail/retail services spaces (total gross floor area c. 8,155 sq.m), car and bicycle parking for residents and visitors, open spaces and associated supporting development infrastructure. The residential component will consist of: (i) 94 no. terraced houses (2-3 storeys in height) comprising 62 no. 3-bedrooms and 32 no. 4-bedrooms; all houses are provided with private open space, internal storage space, and refuse storage. (ii) 106 no. duplex own-door units (2-3 storeys in height) comprising 53 no. 2-bedrooms located at ground level and 53 no. 3-bedrooms at the upper floor level; all duplex own-door units are provided with private open space, internal storage space, and refuse storage. (iii) 109 no. apartments in Block E (3-15 storeys in height) consisting of 9 no. 1-bedroom, 83 no. 2-bedrooms, 9 no. 3-bedrooms and 8 no. 4-bedrooms and residential amenity spaces (c. 602 sq.m); all apartments are provided with balconies or terraces, internal storage space, and refuse storage within 1 no. internal refuse storage area on the undercroft floor level; (iv) 32 no. apartments in Block H (3-4 storeys in height) consisting of 18 no. 1-bedroom, 12 no. 2-bedrooms and 2 no. 3-bedrooms; all apartments are provided with balconies or terraces, internal storage space, and refuse storage within 2 no. internal refuse storage areas on the ground floor level; The commercial and retail/retail services component will consist of: (i) Block E comprising 1 no. public house (c. 804 sq.m), 2 no. retail units (combined c. 908 sq.m); (ii) Block G (1-2 storeys in height) comprising 3 no. retail units (total gross floor area c. 2,550 sq.m); (iii) Block H comprising 1 no. medical centre (c. 706 sq.m), 1 no. childcare facility (c. 762 sq.m), and 1 no. retail unit (c. 94 sq.m); and (iv) Block I (3-7 storeys in height) comprising 1 no. hotel of 150 no. rooms (c. 10,016 sq.m) with associated wellbeing centre and pool (c. 1,169 sq.m), wedding/function venue (c. 633 sq.m), rooftop restaurant (c. 883 sq.m), and 1 no. retail unit (c. 408 sq.m). In addition, the proposed development will also comprise the provision of supporting and ancillary infrastructure, including 532 car parking spaces, 1,003 bicycle parking spaces, open spaces, and all associated ancillary site works

Granted0.1 km30 September 2025
22442

New two storey extension to the rear of the dwelling house, new window at first floor and new door at ground floor at North west facing side gable and all associated site works

Refused0.2 km15 June 2022

The brief summarizes the pattern across all 2,043 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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