Core Refusal Reason
The application was refused due to the proposed development's failure to integrate into a high-sensitivity landscape and the potential for significant adverse effects on protected European sites (Natura 2000) due to insufficient environmental assessment.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The proposed dwelling and garage, by virtue of their scale and prominent siting on a locally elevated site within a High Landscape Sensitivity area, would constitute an obtrusive feature that fails to effectively assimilate into the rural setting.
- The Planning Authority is not satisfied that the project will not adversely affect the integrity of the Lough Corrib SAC and SPA, as the submitted Natura Impact Statement failed to rule out significant negative effects on all European sites within a 15km radius.
- The development would set an undesirable precedent for similar future development in the area and contravenes multiple landscape and environmental protection objectives of the Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Policy Objective LCM 2Policy Objective LCM 3Policy Objective RH 9DM Standard 46DM Standard 8Policy Objective NHB 1Policy Objective NHB 2Policy Objective NHB 3DM Standard 50Policy Objective RH 1Policy Objective FL 1Policy Objective WR 1
Decision Document Summary
Edel Lyons sought planning permission to construct a substantial two-storey dwellinghouse (463sqm) and domestic garage (68sqm) with a private wastewater treatment system at Buaile na Sruthán, a rural site approximately 1km west of Galway City. The subject site is located within a High Landscape Sensitivity area and is adjacent to a watercourse leading to the Lough Corrib SAC. Galway County Council refused the application because the development's scale and elevated siting would be visually intru...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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