What a Planning Feasibility & Risk Report contains
This is a real report, eight pages, produced for a Dublin 6 mews site — subdivision of a rear garden for a two-storey mews dwelling. The site details are anonymised; nothing else is.
If your site is somewhere else, the shape of the report is the same but the precedents and the grounds are the ones that recur in that county — they are read out of the decisions for that area, not carried over from this one.
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What is in it
Executive summary and critical alerts
The constraints that decide the application, split into what is working against the site and what is working for it. For the sample: separation distances, private open space for the parent dwelling, and overdevelopment — against compact-growth policy and R2 zoning support.
Site profile and zoning audit
The zoning objective in the words of the development plan, what is permissible, what is open for consideration, and any planning history already recorded on the site itself.
Planning precedent analysis
Nearby applications with the real distance to each, what was proposed, the decision, and — where it was refused — the reasoning the council actually cited. Local decisions and An Bord Pleanála files.
Geospatial and environmental risk scan
Flood zone against OPW/CFRAM national mapping, GSI subsoil classification, slope, whether a peat stability assessment is triggered, and protected features from NPWS.
Quantitative feasibility and development obligations
Whether Part V applies at the proposed scale, and the Section 48 contribution rate for that authority quoted from its published scheme — for the sample, the Dublin City Council scheme 2023–2026.
Risk register and recommendations
Each risk with what it means for the design, and the roadmap to pre-planning.
Where the numbers come from
Every planning application decided by the 31 Irish planning authorities, with the decision reasoning pulled out of the refusals — council decision documents and An Bord Pleanála files, all public records. Zoning comes from the national land use zoning layer, flood extents from OPW/CFRAM, subsoils from the GSI, protected sites from NPWS, and levy rates from each authority's own published Section 48 scheme.
Anything that cannot be established is printed as TBC rather than guessed.
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