Core Refusal Reason
The development was refused due to its significant adverse visual impact on a highly sensitive Class 5 landscape and the setting of a National Monument, combined with the applicant's failure to demonstrate a substantiated rural housing need under Objective RHO 3.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The proposed dwelling and garage would be an overly prominent feature in a Class 5 Unique Landscape of outstanding value, detracting from the visual and residential amenities of the area and contravening landscape conservation objectives.
- The applicant failed to provide sufficient documentation to demonstrate long-standing local intrinsic rural links to the area, thereby failing to meet the rural housing need criteria set out in Objective RHO 3 of the County Development Plan.
- The development would negatively interfere with the visual context and setting of a registered National Monument (Dún Fearbhaí / Ringfort), setting an undesirable precedent for similar developments in a sensitive heritage area.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Objective RHO 3Objective RHO 9Objective LCM 1Objective LCM 2DM Standard 6Section 9.10.1Section 9.11Section 13.3Section 13.4
Decision Document Summary
Adrian Concannon sought permission for a 194 sqm dwelling and garage at Ceathrú An Lisín on Inish Meáin, Co. Galway. The site is located within a highly sensitive Class 5 karstic limestone landscape adjacent to the Dún Fearbhaí National Monument. Galway County Council refused the application because the development would form an intrusive feature in a landscape of outstanding value and interfere with the setting of a historic monument. Furthermore, the Planning Authority determined that the appl...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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