Core Refusal Reason
The development is considered excessive in scale for a High Amenity Zone, resulting in negative visual impacts on a sensitive rural landscape and failing to demonstrate traffic safety on a substandard public road.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The scale of excavation and hardcore surfacing is excessive for the agricultural context and violates the 'G' zoning objective intended to protect and improve high amenity areas.
- The development results in a negative visual impact on a sensitive rural landscape, contrary to specific development plan policies regarding sensitive landscapes, views, and prospects.
- The applicant failed to provide sufficient technical data, including visibility splays and swept path analysis, to prove the development would not create a traffic hazard on the substandard public road.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Zoning Objective GPolicy Objective GIB4Section 12.3.12Section 12.7.3Section 12.7.4
Decision Document Summary
Retention planning permission was sought for changes to the means of access at Hanlon's Lane, Ticknock, Sandyford. The site is situated within a sensitive rural landscape zoned for high amenity under the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Development Plan 2022-2028. The Planning Authority refused the application because the extent of hardcore surfacing and excavation was deemed excessive and visually damaging to the landscape. Additionally, the application was refused on public safety grounds as the ...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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