Free refusal-reasons report2017
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2017
329 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2017, with 24 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: Clare (321), Cavan (8).
329
decisions analysed24
refused7%
refusal rate53
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Ireland, 2017.
Category counts
- Visual Amenity10
- Traffic Sightlines8
- Residential Amenity7
- Rural Housing Need7
- Design4
- Other3
- Zoning Contravention3
- Procedure Invalid2
- Wastewater Percolation2
- Density1
Year-by-year trend
- 202616 refused of 161 analysed decisions; 2 reason signals10%
- 202528 refused of 363 analysed decisions; 21 reason signals8%
- 202428 refused of 293 analysed decisions; 34 reason signals10%
- 202349 refused of 406 analysed decisions; 53 reason signals12%
- 202266 refused of 705 analysed decisions; 111 reason signals9%
- 2021152 refused of 1,438 analysed decisions; 317 reason signals11%
- 2020301 refused of 2,220 analysed decisions; 652 reason signals14%
- 201915 refused of 372 analysed decisions; 21 reason signals4%
- 201813 refused of 485 analysed decisions; 18 reason signals3%
- 201724 refused of 329 analysed decisions; 53 reason signals7%
Real refused examples
- 17692Site contains existing unauthorised development (church, shed, parking area); permitting further development would not accord with orderly development of the area.Decided 03 November 2017Other
- 1739Proposal materially contravenes LDR 1 gateway zoning, representing haphazard development that pre-empts comprehensive servicing of adjoining lands.Decided 22 August 2017Zoning Contravention
- 17354Proposed connection to the existing septic tank without a site characterization assessment or qualified engineer's report is prejudicial to public health, particularly given the area's kn...Decided 30 June 2017Wastewater Percolation
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