Free refusal-reasons report2020
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown planning refusal reasons, 2020
216 Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown planning decisions analysed for 2020, with 27 refusals and the most common planner-cited refusal grounds.Coverage noteThese figures cover decisions whose public planner reports have been indexed and machine-read by PlanIntel. County cuts publish only after the county passes the extraction threshold; national pages show the currently analysed corpus, not every council in Ireland.Included in this page: Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (216).
216
decisions analysed27
refused13%
refusal rate71
refusal-reason signalsTop refusal grounds
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Category counts
- Visual Amenity13
- Residential Amenity12
- Traffic Sightlines8
- Design7
- Protected Structure5
- Other4
- Rural Housing Need3
- Zoning Contravention3
- Density2
- Procedure Invalid2
Year-by-year trend
- 20251 refused of 10 analysed decisions; 1 reason signals10%
- 20248 refused of 30 analysed decisions; 14 reason signals27%
- 202314 refused of 72 analysed decisions; 36 reason signals19%
- 202213 refused of 116 analysed decisions; 39 reason signals11%
- 202117 refused of 101 analysed decisions; 42 reason signals17%
- 202027 refused of 216 analysed decisions; 71 reason signals13%
Real refused examples
- D20A/0636Current design with aluminium cladding is visually obtrusive and incongruous with the main protected dwelling, failing to meet the guiding principle of high quality design that respects a...Decided 30 October 2020Design
- D20A/0489Two-storey dormer design is visually overbearing and constitutes piecemeal backland development contrary to backland standards.Decided 04 September 2020Design
- D20A/0386Proposal results in an incongruous, overbearing development with abrupt scale transition relative to the receiving environment, interfering with surrounding urban landscape character.Decided 24 July 2020Density
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