Core Refusal Reason
Failure to adequately demonstrate local housing need through comprehensive landholding documentation and an inappropriate dwelling design of excessive scale.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The applicant failed to provide sufficient evidence of local housing need, specifically lacking full landholding maps and folio details for all family lands in County Meath to verify compliance with rural housing policy.
- The proposed dwelling design, featuring an overall length of 18.05 metres, is considered excessive and fails to properly assimilate into the rural landscape or adhere to the Meath Rural Design Guide.
- The development would result in the unjustified creation of a gap site to the south and lacks necessary proposals for the upgrade of the private access lane, including required sightlines and surface water drainage measures.
Cited Policies (CDP)
RD POL 1RD POL 2RD POL 3RD POL 28RD POL 29RD OBJ 19Section 9.4Section 9.12Section 9.18Section 10.4
Decision Document Summary
The proposal seeks permission for a single-storey dwelling, domestic garage, and septic tank at Mayo Road, Gibstown Demesne, Navan, Co. Meath, situated within a Gaeltacht area under Strong Urban Influence. While the applicant demonstrated long-term residency in the area, the Planning Authority found the application deficient due to a lack of comprehensive family landholding maps and a dwelling design deemed excessively long at 18.05 metres. Consequently, the authority withheld permission (issuin...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
Note: If code appears below, the council site is blocking the preview. Please open the original file.