Core Refusal Reason
The proposal seeks to extend an unauthorized residential structure, fails to demonstrate a genuine local rural housing need, and represents inappropriate suburban-style ribbon development in a rural area.
Decision Maker's Conclusion
- The development would consolidate an unauthorized residential use on a site where no planning permission for a dwelling has been established.
- The applicants failed to provide evidence of compliance with local rural housing need criteria as required by Policy RH 2 of the County Development Plan.
- The scale and suburban design of the proposal would exacerbate ribbon development and contribute to the haphazard suburbanisation of a rural area under significant development pressure.
Cited Policies (CDP)
Kildare County Development Plan 2017-2023Chapter 4Chapter 16Chapter 17Section 16.5RH 2RH 3RH 4RH 5RH 9RH 9(iv)RH 10RH 11RH 12RH 14RH 15
Decision Document Summary
The applicants sought permission for a large extension to an existing structure at Loughanure Commons, Clane, which the Planning Authority identified as an unauthorized converted outbuilding. Due to the scale of the proposal—being five times the size of the existing structure—it was assessed as a new dwelling in the countryside rather than a mere extension. The application was refused because it would consolidate an unauthorized use, lacked evidence of the applicants' local rural housing need, a...SOURCE PDFOpen Original
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