Core Refusal Reason
Overdevelopment of a restricted site resulting in adverse impacts on residential amenity, traffic safety hazards, and unresolved technical and legal issues regarding site access and drainage.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The proposed development constitutes overdevelopment of a restricted site, leading to significant adverse impacts on the residential amenities of adjoining properties through overshadowing, overlooking, and overbearance.
- The scheme creates a traffic hazard due to poor pedestrian-vehicle inter-visibility and inadequate parking, while the applicant failed to demonstrate sufficient legal title to utilize the existing private access road.
- Insufficient technical information was provided to assess surface water drainage, and granting permission would set an undesirable precedent for similar developments that are contrary to the proper planning of the area.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Objective PM44
Decision Document Summary
The application proposed an infill development of three two-storey detached houses on a site adjacent to Cloch Choirneal in Balrothery, Co. Dublin. The Planning Authority refused permission because the layout represented overdevelopment that would negatively impact the residential amenity of neighboring properties and contravene Objective PM44 of the Fingal Development Plan. Furthermore, the proposal was deemed a traffic hazard due to poor visibility and parking provision, lacked clarity on lega...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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