Core Refusal Reason
The development was refused due to its industrial nature being incompatible with the rural residential context, causing injury to residential amenities and posing a traffic hazard on a substandard access road.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The industrial nature of the proposed coffee roasting facility would seriously injure residential amenities and depreciate property values due to likely odours, noise, and general disturbance.
- The vehicular access via a private roadway is substandard in terms of width, alignment, and surfacing, and is inadequate to safely cater for the additional traffic movements.
- The application lacked sufficient detail regarding the scale of the business, hours of operation, and mitigation strategies for noise and odour emissions.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Section 11.6.3 Landscape Designations
Decision Document Summary
The proposal involved the change of use of a storage unit, ancillary to an existing car repair garage in Lissyvigeen, Killarney, to a coffee roasting and production facility. The site is located in a 'Rural General' zone at the end of a substandard private roadway near several residential properties. Kerry County Council refused permission because the industrial operation would negatively impact the residential amenities of the area through noise and odour, and the inadequate access road would c...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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