Free refusal-reasons report2020
Wicklow planning refusal reasons, 2020
488 Wicklow planning decisions analysed for 2020, with 53 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: Wicklow (488).
488
decisions analysed53
refused11%
refusal rate119
refusal-reason signalsEvidence chart
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Wicklow, 2020.
Category counts
- Traffic Sightlines17
- Visual Amenity15
- Other14
- Residential Amenity14
- Rural Housing Need13
- Design11
- Premature Services7
- Wastewater Percolation7
- Procedure Invalid5
- Zoning Contravention5
Real refused examples
- 20375Failure to demonstrate a proven need for locating truck parking and maintenance in a rural area, contrary to strategic objectives requiring employment development on zoned/designated land...Decided 23 October 2020Rural Housing Need
- 20325Structure significantly breaks the established building line, contrary to SF seafront zoning objectives requiring new buildings to follow the established building line.Decided 01 July 2020Zoning Contravention
- 20322Site lies within a pristine rural landscape designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Structure occupies a prominent hillside position visible from protected prospects, with no vi...Decided 01 July 2020Visual Amenity
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