Core Refusal Reason
The development was refused due to its failure to integrate into a designated Area of High Scenic Quality and the applicant's failure to demonstrate compliance with local rural housing need criteria.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The proposed site is excessively open and exposed within an Area of High Scenic Quality, meaning the dwelling would fail to integrate into the landscape and would result in a scarring feature.
- The applicant failed to provide sufficient documentary evidence, such as land registry certificates, to prove they are the child of a qualifying landowner or that they have a demonstrable rural housing need.
- The proposal represents ad-hoc, piecemeal development that would lead to further encroachment in the rural area and set an undesirable precedent for similar developments.
Cited Policies (CDP)
HOU 41HOU 42HOU 47NBG 37Section 13.9.4Table 3.4
Decision Document Summary
Kevin Roche sought permission for a single-storey dwellinghouse, garage, and wastewater treatment system on a 0.310ha site at Ballymakenny, Drogheda, Co. Louth. The site is located within Rural Policy Zone 1 and an Area of High Scenic Quality. Louth County Council refused the application because the development would be visually prominent in an open agricultural field lacking natural boundaries, and the applicant failed to establish a clear rural housing need or prove their status as a child of ...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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