Weston Airport, Backweston, Lucan, Co. Dublin
- 23 Feb 2024Received
- 21 Mar 2024Declared exempt
- Status
- Granted
- Decision
- Declared exempt · 21 Mar 2024
- Council
- South Dublin County Council
- Type
- Declaration of Exemption Sect. 5
- Site
- 5.76 ha
What’s proposed
The installation of a system of 'Visual Aids to Navigation', including all associated electrical ducting, an aeronautical beacon, runway edge lights, runway lead-in lights, runway threshold identification lights, Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI's), runway end lights, stopway lights, runway guard lights, stop-bars, taxiway edge lights, apron floodlighting and wind-direction indicator (windcone) lights. The standardisation of the width of the straight sections of all taxiways to 11m (with wider than 11m for turns). (Please refer to the cover letter enclosed within for a detailed description of the proposed development)
ED24/0009 is a planning application to South Dublin County Council for the installation of a system of 'Visual Aids to Navigation', including all associated, received on 23 Feb 2024; permission was granted on 21 Mar 2024.
Planning details
- Reference
- ED24/0009
- Local authority
- South Dublin County Council
- Status
- Granted · register status “Decision”
- Received
- 23 Feb 2024
- Observations close
- 29 Mar 2024 (closed 900 days ago)
- Decision due
- 21 Mar 2024 · decided 21 Mar 2024
- Decision
- Declared exempt on 21 Mar 2024
- Proposed development
- The installation of a system of 'Visual Aids to Navigation', including all associated electrical ducting, an aeronautical beacon, runway edge lights, runway lead-in lights, runway threshold identification lights, Precision Approach Path Indicators (PAPI's), runway end lights, stopway lights, runway guard lights, stop-bars, taxiway edge lights, apron floodlighting and wind-direction indicator (windcone) lights. The standardisation of the width of the straight sections of all taxiways to 11m (with wider than 11m for turns). (Please refer to the cover letter enclosed within for a detailed description of the proposed development)As published by the register.
- Site area
- 5.76 ha from the mapped boundary, not the council's figure
- Applicant
- Not published — the national feed carries no applicant name council register
Full planning report for 53.35193, -6.48626
Zoning, appeals, sold prices, flood and heritage constraints — everything for this area in one PDF.
No account, no payment. Not a statutory planning search.
Appeal
Not appealed.
Commencement
No commencement notice matched to this reference.
Zoning at the site
OS: To preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities
Open space with active recreational amenities — pitches, courts, play areas.
RU: To protect and improve rural amenity and to provide for the development of agriculture
Zoned to protect agriculture, rural enterprise and biodiversity. New houses are restricted to demonstrated local need.
Designations within 250 m
No OPW flood extent nearby.
- Radon risk area · 2
Provenance
Register row from the national planning applications feed (NPAD), fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51 (store id 121377). 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/southdublin/application-details/65631.
Source: npad · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 18:51
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