Free refusal-reasons report2021
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2021
951 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2021, with 116 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: Carlow (275), Wicklow (210), Fingal (208), Cavan (157), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (101).
951
decisions analysed116
refused12%
refusal rate245
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Ireland, 2021.
Category counts
- Traffic Sightlines36
- Residential Amenity34
- Visual Amenity31
- Design24
- Other23
- Rural Housing Need17
- Zoning Contravention17
- Ecology9
- Density8
- Wastewater Percolation8
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
- 20403Proposed car parking falls significantly below CDP standards (shortfall of ~45 spaces; 59 proposed vs ~104 required). Sub-standard vehicular entrance situated at a busy junction with defi...Decided 08 February 2021Traffic Sightlines
- F20A/0572Site is traversed by a stream with a potential hydrological connection to the Malahide Estuary (Natura 2000). Absence of an Appropriate Assessment Screening fails to demonstrate no signif...Decided 13 January 2021Ecology
- D20A/0942Development is premature pending resolution of significant water/drainage infrastructural shortcomings, upgrading of the local road network for increased traffic/pedestrians, and better l...Decided 17 February 2021Premature Services
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