Free refusal-reasons report2023
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2023
406 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2023, with 49 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 (333), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (72), Cavan (1).
406
decisions analysed49
refused12%
refusal rate53
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Ireland, 2023.
Category counts
- Traffic Sightlines9
- Residential Amenity8
- Visual Amenity5
- Zoning Contravention5
- Design4
- Density3
- Ecology3
- Other3
- Rural Housing Need3
- Premature Services2
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
- D23A/0351Development fails to comply with protected structure setting requirements. Design unsympathetic with negative visual impact on adjacent RPS 1850 Crinken Cottage. Inadequate rationale prov...Decided 19 December 2023Protected Structure
- D22A/0945Relies on existing access through Stepaside Park Phase One and Two onto Enniskerry Road. Previous permissions limited dwellings accessing this route. ~400 permitted dwellings already, con...Decided 01 February 2023Traffic Sightlines
- D23A/0405Development contrary to infill and corner/side garden site policies due to visual impact, design, and siting on the side boundary.Decided 10 August 2023Design
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