Observation pack · Clare County Council

Circular Road , Kilkee , Co. Clare

to renovate and extend the existing derelict dwelling house along with all associated site works and services

Observations close 28 Oct 2026 12 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 23 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 17 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 2660623 · full record
Authority: Clare County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 1
Floor area: 1 m²
Site area: 342 m²
Received: 23 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 29 Sept 2026, 23:03
Decision due: 17 Nov 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/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660623/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660623 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. Clare County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 28 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Clare 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
M2 Major town centre	Mixed Use: The use of land for ‘mixed use’ developments shall incl. the use of land for a range of uses, making provision, where appropriate, for primary and secondary uses e.g. commercial/retail development as the primary use with residential dev. as secondary	kilkee settlement plan	20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029

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: Clare County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Clare County Council development plan zoning	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site

NIAH-recorded building × 2
Nolan · house

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660523	Conditional	5 Oct 2026	1	8 m	to restore and renovate the derelict dwelling house, to include the installation of new window and door openings, and all associated site works and services
2660507	Conditional	1 Oct 2026	1	134 m	for the renovation and adaptation of the existing dwelling, Marine House, Strand Line, Kilkee, Co. Clare, including the demolition of a single storey lean-to, reinstatement of external openings, replacement of windows as part of a thermal upgrade, provision of one new off-street parking space to the front garden and all necessary ancillary works and site services. The proposed development includes work to the exterior of a structure located within an Architectural Conservation Area
26209	Conditional	16 Sept 2026	1	319 m	of an extension (35.8m2) to the rear of the property
2660479	Conditional	16 Sept 2026	0	270 m	to (a) change the use of the ground floor from a disused premises to a licenced bar/ restaurant; (b) construct a ground floor extension to the rear of the existing premises; (c) complete the construction of the unfinished first-floor apartment; (d) addition of new roof light windows to existing flat roofs; (e) all associated siteworks and services; and RETENTION permission for minor alterations to the layout and elevations of the development previously authorised under planning permission Ref No. 09/773.
2660478	Conditional	14 Sept 2026	1	323 m	to demolish the existing sub-standard dwelling house and to construct a replacement dwelling house along with all associated site works and services
2660175	Conditional	8 Sept 2026	0	62 m	of the conversion of the building from storage facility to a residential unit to include elevational changes and all associated site works and services
2560430	Conditional	2 Jul 2026	0	138 m	to alter, renovate and extend the existing property to provide 3 No. self-contained apartments and one commercial office unit to include demolition of the existing rear extensions with all necessary ancillary services
26115	Conditional	23 Jun 2026	0	224 m	to construct protective sheeted roof over existing rear seating/dining area with separate Storage Room plus all ancillary site works

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
500975	—	Granted	13 Jul 2026	460 m
324410	—	pending	26 Jun 2026	393 m
500646	—	Split	14 May 2026	134 m
320967	—	Granted with conditions	20 Aug 2025	173 m
321258	—	Granted with conditions	11 Jun 2025	318 m
317611	—	Refused	11 Dec 2024	138 m
319885	—	Refused	21 Oct 2024	446 m
314475	—	Refused	24 Nov 2023	342 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

23 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 28 Oct 2026
23 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 29 Sept 2026, 23:03. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Clare County Council before relying on it.