Free refusal-reasons report2019
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2019
372 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2019, with 15 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 (311), Clare (61).
372
decisions analysed15
refused4%
refusal rate21
refusal-reason signalsEvidence chart
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Ireland, 2019.
Category counts
- Rural Housing Need4
- Visual Amenity4
- Design3
- Other3
- Traffic Sightlines3
- Ecology1
- Procedure Invalid1
- Residential Amenity1
- Wastewater Percolation1
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
- 181024Planning Authority not satisfied that considerations of a commercial, economic or technical nature beyond the control of the applicant substantially militated against commencement of deve...Decided 14 February 2019Other
- 19305Proposed dwelling elevations and floor plans contain inconsistencies and deviate from the local design guide.Decided 25 October 2019Design
- 181076Site lies within an 'Area of Special Control' / 'Strong Urban Pressure'. Applicants did not demonstrate compliance with CDP 3.11 criteria required for a new countryside house.Decided 09 April 2019Rural Housing Need
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