Core Refusal Reason
Traffic safety hazards due to inadequate access infrastructure and the negative impact on local biodiversity and hedgerows.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The local access boreen is of deficient size and capacity, rendering it incapable of providing a safe and usable means of vehicular access for the proposed dwelling.
- The development would create a traffic hazard and impede the establishment of a necessary turning bay for the adjacent Pairc na Gleann estate, setting an undesirable precedent.
- Achieving safe access would likely require widening the laneway and removing significant hedgerows/biodiversity along a designated amenity walkway, which contravenes policy objectives for natural amenity retention.
Cited Policies (CDP)
BE 15-6
Decision Document Summary
The proposal involved the construction of a single-storey dwelling and a new site entrance at Ballycotton, Co. Cork. The application was refused by the local authority because the existing access boreen is structurally inadequate to handle additional traffic safely and would interfere with planned infrastructure for a neighboring estate. Additionally, the planning authority found that the development would necessitate the removal of vital local hedgerows and biodiversity along a designated walkw...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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