Observation pack · Carlow County Council

Athy Road , Carlow

demolish an existing single storey ruin and 2no. sheds and construct a 2-storey dwelling, new mains water and sewage connection, new boundary treatments and all associated site works

Observations close 13 Nov 2026 5 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 9 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 3 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2660310 · full record
Authority: Carlow County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 359 m²
Received: 9 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 14 Oct 2026, 01:45
Decision due: 3 Dec 2026
Decision: N/a

The national dataset truncates descriptions (80 characters for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and omits the applicant. The full description and the drawings are on the council register linked in step 1.

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at http://www.eplanning.ie/CarlowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660310/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660310 at the top, give your name and the address the authority should reply to, and confine it to planning matters — zoning objective, height, overlooking, traffic, drainage, heritage. What you say here is what you can later appeal on.
Pay the €20 fee.Every submission needs it; without it the observation is invalid and is returned. Carlow County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 13 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Carlow County Council. The test is the date the authority receives it, not the date you post it.
Keep the acknowledgement.The council's receipt is your proof of a valid observation — see below.

Statutory basis. Section 34(1) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended) requires a planning authority to consider any submission or observation made to it in accordance with the Regulations. Article 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) sets the window: a submission or observation must be received by the authority within five weeks beginning on the date of receipt of the application, and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee of €20. A submission received after the window, or without the fee, is invalid and the authority must return it.

After you submit: keep the acknowledgement. Under the 2024 Act it secures your right to appeal — only the applicant and a person who made a valid observation may bring the council's decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála, within four weeks of the decision. Making a valid observation is also what buys a right of appeal: under s.37(1) of the 2000 Act, only the applicant and a person who made a valid submission or observation to the planning authority may appeal the decision to An Coimisiún Pleanála (within four weeks of the decision). Missing the five-week window closes both doors.

What the site is zoned

Code	Objective	Plan	In force
R2 Existing residential	Existing / Infill Residential: To protect and improve existing residential amenity; to provide for appropriate infill residential development; to provide for new and improved ancillary services	carlow graiguecullen joint urban local area plan 2024 2030	10 Sept 2024 → 9 Sept 2030
R2 Existing residential	Existing / Infill Residential: To protect and improve existing residential amenity; to provide for appropriate infill residential development; to provide for new and improved ancillary services	carlow county development plan 2022 2028 variation number 4 carlow town and environs	4 Jul 2022 → 3 Jul 2028

An application that accords with the zoning objective is hard to resist on principle; one that does not may be a material contravention, which the council can only grant by the s.34(6) procedure with its own notice and window.

Source: Carlow County Council development plan zoning · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:04

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Carlow County Council development plan zoning	—	4 Oct 2026, 23:04	open

Designations on or near the site

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660117	Conditional	2 Nov 2026	0	309 m	to erect pitch flood lighting and associated poles and all necessary site works
2660277	Conditional	22 Oct 2026	0	317 m	development of the alteration, renovation and extension to the existing hostel including Change of Use to a Domestic Violence Refuge development comprising of 2 no. two-bed units, 4 no. one-bed units and 4 no. studio units (10 no. units in total) and associated support spaces including resident communal and play areas, staff facilities, offices, counselling and meeting rooms and associated plant, store and sanitary facilities. The proposal includes partial demolitions (including of outbuildings and sheds) and alterations. New one and two storey extensions with flat roofs are proposed. New landscaping for amenity areas, pedestrian access with planted privacy buffers; common bike parking, bin and garden storage and a plant room are proposed. The development includes for connections to existing services (including existing mains drainage and a new electricity kiosk), works to the boundary treatments including realigning the entrance gate to the boundary line, temporary construction signage, new building signage, lighting and all associated ancillary site development works
2560420	Conditional	30 Jul 2026	0	299 m	a period of 5 years for the continuance of use of the existing Protected Structure (RPS Ref. CT46; NIAH Ref. 10000768), formerly St. Brigid’s Nursing Home, comprising 50 no. bedrooms across lower ground, ground, first and second floors, for the purpose of providing emergency residential accommodation for Internationally Protected Persons (IPP), together with the continued use of all existing internal communal areas, sanitary facilities, circulation spaces and ancillary service rooms, with no external works or physical alterations proposed to the Protected Structure, and all associated site works and services
2660047	Conditional	13 Apr 2026	0	390 m	a single-storey modular unit comprising of a toilet and shower block, link roof and all associated site works at the rear of the Capuchin Friary, 43 Dublin Street, Carlow, R93 PH27. The proposed development consists of works to a protected structure (Protected Structure Ref: CT44 Carlow Town) and is located within the Dublin Street Architectural Conservation Area
2660024	Conditional	31 Mar 2026	0	361 m	alterations to the layout of the existing car park, to provide additional parking spaces, to reduce the diameter of the internal hospital roundabout and to provide an accessible parking space adjacent the roundabout together with associated works
2560198	Conditional	30 Jan 2026	0	420 m	construction of a 211sq/m, single-storey building for the purpose of providing Funeral Industry training classes, and all associated site works. The proposed building will be ancillary to the existing funeral home and the proposed operating hours are 10:30 am to 7:30pm, Monday to Friday
2560258	Conditional	26 Jan 2026	1	60 m	a new single storey four bedroom dwelling, new residential site entrance plus all associated site works including all over ground / underground services to facilitate the development
2560260	Conditional	24 Nov 2025	8	168 m	the development will consist of alteration to previously approved under planning Ref: 23/60101. Alterations include amendments to demolition works, revised number of units, site boundary, elevations, external storage building and all ancillary works

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
324064	—	Other	14 Jul 2026	109 m
500866	—	Invalid	25 Feb 2026	60 m
318387	—	Refused	18 Jul 2024	373 m
317365	—	Granted with conditions	23 Oct 2023	430 m
311835	—	Refused	11 Jan 2023	134 m

If neighbours here have appealed before and lost, the inspector's report on that case is the single most useful thing to read.

What has happened on this file

9 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 13 Nov 2026
9 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 14 Oct 2026, 01:45. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Carlow County Council before relying on it.