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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, May 13, 2024

QUESTION NO.8(a)

QUESTION: Councillor L. Hagin Meade

To ask the Chief Executive for a report in tabular form on the number of stand-alone rural home new builds. Report to include planning applications and approvals processed between 2016-2023

REPLY:

The table attached gives details of all planning applications for houses in the rural areas of South Dublin with the zoning RU or HA over the period of the previous 2016-2022 South Dublin County Development Plan and the period up to December 2023 of the current 2022-2028 Development Plan.

In total there have been 139 planning applications for houses in the rural areas.  It should be noted that some of these are repeat applications on the same site or amendments to permissions and these are included in the overall numbers.

The decisions on these can be broken down in summary as:

3 applications currently awaiting a decision by the Board

1 application is awaiting receipt of additional information from the applicant

20 applications were granted permission. Of these, just 9 have lodged a commencement notice. Of the grants, 5 of them were within the life of the current Development Plan, equating to an average of 3.3 grants per annum. The remaining 15 were granted over the 6 year life of the 2016 Development Plan, equating to an average of 2.5 grants per annum.  The majority of those granted were in the RU zoning, with just 4 granted in the HA zoning.  Three grants were made by An Bord Pleanala following a decision to refuse by the Council.

The majority of grants were in Newcastle Electoral District (ED, 8 grants), followed by Bohernabreena ED with 4 and Rathcoole with 3.

112 applications were refused over the period (June 2016 – December 2023).  43 of these were in the HA zoning.  25 refusals were upheld by An Bord Pleanala.  The majority of refusals were in the Electoral District of Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart and Bohernabreena.  As indicated above, a number of these were repeat applications on the same site.

3 applications were withdrawn over the period.