Free refusal-reasons report2024
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2024
293 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2024, with 28 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 (262), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (30), Cavan (1).
293
decisions analysed28
refused10%
refusal rate34
refusal-reason signalsTop refusal grounds
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Category counts
- Visual Amenity7
- Other4
- Residential Amenity4
- Traffic Sightlines4
- Wastewater Percolation3
- Zoning Contravention3
- Design2
- Procedure Invalid2
- Rural Housing Need2
- Ecology1
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
- D24A/0638/WEBDevelopment causes significant overbearing and overshadowing impacts to recently approved private amenity spaces of adjacent units to the west.Decided 09 October 2024Residential Amenity
- 2460005Site elevated >9m above road level on the Ballyryan Scenic Route (ID5) with extensive western views. The 32m wide dwelling footprint creates an overly visible, obtrusive hillside feature...Decided 19 September 2024Visual Amenity
- 2360205Sight lines at the western entrance are not demonstrated in line with the CDP. Sightlines to the east at this entrance are non-existent, increasing hazard to road users.Decided 11 September 2024Traffic Sightlines
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