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Fingal County Council · F26A/0234E · Retention

Swords Shopping Centre, Rathbeale Road, Swords, Co. Dublin

Data updated 12 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness

Council received 25 Mar 2026We first saw it 11 Sept 2026, 15:18 (171 days after receipt — sources refresh weekly)

F26A/0234E is a planning application for retention at Swords Shopping Centre, Rathbeale Road, Swords, Co. Dublin, received by Fingal County Council on 25 Mar 2026 and first seen by Planning Register on 11 Sept 2026. The application describes: The development will consist of: (1) Retention of a portacabin structu… The council issued a split decision on 19 May 2026 (Grant Retention & Refuse Retention). The five-week observation window closed on 29 Apr 2026. Appeal 501528 is before An Coimisiún Pleanála (lodged 12 Jun 2026). The site is zoned null under the Fingal County Council development plan. Within 500 m there are 71 other decided applications in the last five years and 12 appeals.

Appeal window closes 16 Jun 2026 closed 88 days ago
4 weeks from the council's decision (19 May 2026) · s.37 Planning and Development Act 2000 · €220 to An Coimisiún Pleanála (€110 observer)

Proposal

The development will consist of: (1) Retention of a portacabin structu

The description is truncated at source (70 characters in the national feed). The full text is on the council register.

Status
Planners Report to ACP
Decision
Grant retention & refuse retention on 19 May 2026
Site (from polygon)
1.81 ha
Location precision
site (coords_polygon)

Timeline

  • 25 Mar 2026
    New application
    Observation window closed 29 Apr 2026
  • 19 May 2026
    Decision
    Appeal window closed 16 Jun 2026
  • 12 Jun 2026
    Appeal lodged

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Appeal

ACP 501528 · Planning Appeal · pending
received by the Commission 12 Jun 2026

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    Zoning at the site

    RD - Road: N/A

    G4 — Open space

    OS - Open Space: Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities

    Open space and recreational amenity, to be preserved as such.

    M3 — Neighbourhood centre

    LC - Local Centre: Protect, provide for and/or improve local centre facilities

    A local centre: shops, services and apartments over them, serving the surrounding housing.

    R2 — Existing residential

    RS - Residential: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity

    An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.

    Designations within 250 m

    No OPW flood extent nearby.

    • NIAH-recorded building · 1
      house
    • Radon risk area · 1
      About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
    • Record of Protected Structures · 1
      Thatched Cottage
    • Recorded monument · 1
      R185081

    Provenance

    Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 15:18 (store id 55527). Deadlines were computed by the store from the received / decided dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000 and are recorded as events, not recomputed here. Council register: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/application-details/?ref=F26A/0234E.

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