Swords Shopping Centre, Rathbeale Road, Swords, Co. Dublin
Data updated 12 Sept 2026 · register lag up to 7 days · sources & freshness
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.
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 2026New applicationObservation window closed 29 Apr 2026
- 19 May 2026DecisionAppeal window closed 16 Jun 2026
- 12 Jun 2026Appeal lodged

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Appeal
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
RD - Road: N/A
OS - Open Space: Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities
Open space and recreational amenity, to be preserved as such.
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.
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
- Radon risk area · 1
- Record of Protected Structures · 1
- Recorded monument · 1
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.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 15:18
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