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Permission for retention of single storey detached building for use as a potting shed and tool store ancillary to family home and permission for polytunnel, landscaping/rewilding, bee hives, alterations to existing building, pedestrian entrance to L-8920-0 along with all associated site works

Refused

Core Refusal Reason

Visual impact on a High Value Landscape and lack of a spatial ancillary relationship with the primary dwellinghouse.

Decision Maker's Conclusion

  • The development is situated on an elevated and exposed site within a designated High Value Landscape, resulting in significant injury to the visual amenities and rural character of the area.
  • The building is located away from the curtilage of the applicant’s dwellinghouse, failing to establish a necessary ancillary relationship with the main residence.
  • Granting permission would set an adverse precedent for the placement of ancillary buildings at a significant removal from the primary dwelling in sensitive rural locations.

Cited Policies (CDP)

GI14-9(a)GI 14-12GI 14-15HE 16-21(a)

Decision Document Summary

The proposal sought the retention of a single-storey detached potting shed at Inches, Eyeries, Beara, Co. Cork. The site is located within a High Value Landscape as designated by the Cork County Development Plan 2022-2028. The planning authority refused the application because the structure's elevated and exposed position, combined with its physical separation from the main dwelling's curtilage, fails to respect the rural character of the area and contradicts specific landscape protection object...
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