Free refusal-reasons report2020
Fingal planning refusal reasons, 2020
952 Fingal planning decisions analysed for 2020, with 189 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: Fingal (952).
952
decisions analysed189
refused20%
refusal rate414
refusal-reason signalsEvidence chart
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Fingal, 2020.
Category counts
- Visual Amenity86
- Residential Amenity83
- Zoning Contravention41
- Design37
- Traffic Sightlines36
- Other32
- Rural Housing Need23
- Wastewater Percolation20
- Ecology13
- Density10
Real refused examples
- F19A/0558Site area (518 sqm) significantly below 2000 sqm minimum for on-site treatment plant; insufficient separation distances.Decided 21 January 2020Wastewater Percolation
- F20A/0434Development gives rise to significant negative impact on residential amenity in terms of overbearing, overshadowing and overlooking.Decided 28 October 2020Residential Amenity
- F19A/0639Minimum requirements for public open space and playground provision not met. Public open space calculation erroneously includes Green Corridor contrary to Development Plan hierarchy. Play...Decided 19 August 2020Design
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