Core Refusal Reason
The proposal fails to meet rural housing eligibility criteria, provides substandard parking, and represents over-development of a restricted site.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The applicant failed to demonstrate eligibility for a dwelling in a rural area under strong urban influence, contravening the rural settlement strategy and Objectives RF43 and RF44.
- The proposed car parking is substandard in both quantity and dimensions, which would lead to haphazard parking on the public road and prejudice public safety.
- The development constitutes over-development of a restricted side garden site that is out of character with the area and would set an undesirable precedent for similar developments.
Cited Policies (CDP)
RU zoning objectiveObjective RF43Objective RF44Table 12.8
Decision Document Summary
The proposal sought outline permission for the construction of a dwelling in the side garden of an existing house on Channel Road, Rush, Co. Dublin. The application was refused by Fingal County Council as the applicant did not establish a rural housing need in accordance with the 'RU' zoning objective and rural settlement strategy. Additionally, the planning authority found the site layout to be deficient in car parking provision and concluded that the intensification of the restricted site repr...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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