Free refusal-reasons report2018
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2018
485 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2018, with 13 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: Cavan (267), Clare (218).
485
decisions analysed13
refused3%
refusal rate18
refusal-reason signalsEvidence chart
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Ireland, 2018.
Category counts
- Traffic Sightlines4
- Visual Amenity4
- Residential Amenity2
- Wastewater Percolation2
- Zoning Contravention2
- Other1
- Premature Services1
- Rural Housing Need1
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%
- 202242 refused of 429 analysed decisions; 50 reason signals10%
- 2021116 refused of 951 analysed decisions; 245 reason signals12%
- 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
- 17707Elevated, exposed site with bulk/scale of building and yard would be visually obtrusive in the rural landscape, setting an undesirable precedent for similar commercial developments on unz...Decided 24 January 2018Visual Amenity
- 18113Poor onsite percolation, high water table, ponding, and reliance on off-site effluent removal on a locally important aquifer with extreme groundwater vulnerability, constituting a disorde...Decided 30 May 2018Wastewater Percolation
- 17993Insufficient access information demonstrates the site cannot be satisfactorily accessed, leading to haphazard development, sub-standard living conditions, and injury to the amenity of fut...Decided 21 June 2018Residential Amenity
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