Observation pack · Clare County Council
Dulick and Knockaderry , Ennis , Co. Clare
for a development comprising 53no. residential units, (4no. detached houses, 33no. Terrace houses and 16no. Duplex units), ancillary surface car parking, vehicular & pedestrian access to the proposed development including a new road from the Oakleigh Wood road to join to the Ballycorey road, new footpath along the Oakleigh Wood road, widening of the Ballycorey road, connection to existing public water supply; foul water drainage services including the provision of surface water attenuation outfalling to the North via a headwall and reedbed and all associated site development and landscape works. The planning application is accompanied by an NIS (Natura Impact Statement)
Observations close 12 Nov 2026 7 days left
5 weeks from receipt (received 8 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 2 Dec 2026
The application
- Reference
- 2660655 · full record
- Authority
- Clare County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Status
- NEW APPLICATION
- Applicant
- not published by the national dataset — see the council register
- Units
- 53
- Floor area
- 258,099 m²
- Site area
- 2.51 ha
- Received
- 8 Oct 2026
- We first saw it
- 21 Oct 2026, 02:10
- Decision due
- 2 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/ClareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660655/0.
- Write your observation.Quote
2660655at 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 12 Nov 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| G1 Open space with recreation | Open Space: It is intended that lands zoned ‘open space’ will be retained as undeveloped open space, mainly for passive open space related activities. The open space/park areas could contain active play facilities such as children’s play areas etc. | ennis and environs | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| G1 Open space with recreation | Open Space: It is intended that lands zoned ‘open space’ will be retained as undeveloped open space, mainly for passive open space related activities. The open space/park areas could contain active play facilities such as children’s play areas etc. | ennis and environs | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| R1 New residential | Residential use shall be taken to primarily include the use of land for domestic dwellings. It may also provide for a range of other uses particularly those that have the potential to foster the development of new residential communities etc. | ennis and environs | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| R2 Existing residential | Existing Residential: The obj. for land zoned ‘existing residential’ is to conserve & enhance the quality and character of the areas, to protect residential amenities and to allow for small scale infill development which is appropriate to the character and pattern of Dev | ennis and environs | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| G1 Open space with recreation | Open Space: It is intended that lands zoned ‘open space’ will be retained as undeveloped open space, mainly for passive open space related activities. The open space/park areas could contain active play facilities such as children’s play areas etc. | ennis and environs settlement plan variation no 1 | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| G1 Open space with recreation | Open Space: It is intended that lands zoned ‘open space’ will be retained as undeveloped open space, mainly for passive open space related activities. The open space/park areas could contain active play facilities such as children’s play areas etc. | ennis and environs settlement plan variation no 1 | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| R1 New residential | Residential use shall be taken to primarily include the use of land for domestic dwellings. It may also provide for a range of other uses particularly those that have the potential to foster the development of new residential communities etc. | ennis and environs settlement plan variation no 1 | 20 Apr 2023 → 19 Apr 2029 |
| R2 Existing residential | Existing Residential: The obj. for land zoned ‘existing residential’ is to conserve & enhance the quality and character of the areas, to protect residential amenities and to allow for small scale infill development which is appropriate to the character and pattern of Dev | ennis and environs settlement plan variation no 1 | 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 25 Oct 2026, 23:00
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clare County Council development plan zoning | — | 25 Oct 2026, 23:00 | open |
Designations on or near the site
- Recorded monument × 2Enclosure · R120145
Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years
Decisions
| Reference | Decision | Decided | Units | Distance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2560743 | Conditional | 6 Aug 2026 | 0 | 404 m | to change the design, footprint and use of the proposed development, previously authorised under planning permission ref no. 24-60087, to include the following changes: (a) A revised split use of the building to consist of a restaurant / take away, coffee shop, flower shop, car sales office and storage building; (b) elevational changes to the building; (c) changes to the permitted roof profile and finishes; (d) changes to the permitted building footprint; (e) changes to the permitted internal layout and configuration of the building; (f) changes to the car parking area and external landscape; (g) all associated site works and services |
| 2660141 | Conditional | 22 Jul 2026 | 0 | 478 m | to (a) change the use of the abattoir to a gym and to carry out alterations to the buildings to include an exterior leisure area, and (b) demolition of the cattle shed and (c) construct 4 no. padel courts with carparking together with associated site works and services. A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been included in the application |
| 2560432 | Conditional | 2 Apr 2026 | 0 | 173 m | for development which will consist of; 1.) the construction of a Leisure Building containing 4 Padel Courts, shop and café ancillary to the leisure building at reception, changing rooms, first floor studios, 2.) new site entrance, associated parking spaces, secure bicycle parking spaces, 3.) solar photovoltaic panels at roof level to leisure building, 4.) internal road layout, landscaping, external lighting and boundary treatment, 5.) new surface water attenuation area, 6.) connection to existing public foul water drainage system 7.) building signage and all ancillary site works above and below ground |
| 25306 | Conditional | 18 Nov 2025 | 1 | 153 m | to RETAIN the following amendments to the previously granted plan P21/442. These are (i) Modified roof height of extension which matches height of existing house, (ii) The addition of a picture window in the extension gable, (iii) An open pergola in place of the previously granted garage extension, (iv) The raising of the rearmost section of the boundary wall to facilitate the pergola roof |
| 25184 | Conditional | 31 Jul 2025 | 0 | 212 m | to widen entrance and increase the hard surface area within the curtilage of the dwelling |
| 2560318 | Conditional | 24 Jul 2025 | 1 | 422 m | to (a) retain and complete refurbishment works, consisting of minor elevation changes and alterations to existing dwelling house in disrepair, replacement and extension of demolished garage with provision of pitched roof, widened entrance/exit and all ancillary site works, and (b) permission to provide stone gabion wall to side and rear boundaries |
| 2560232 | Conditional | 23 Jun 2025 | 0 | 237 m | for development at Clare Technology Park, Ennis, Co. Clare, on a site measuring c. 0.44 hectares, for a Renal Dialysis Facility comprising: 1) The construction of a single storey building measuring c. 904 sqm gross floor space; 2) Vehicular and pedestrian access point from existing Clare Technology Park road network, associated car / vehicle parking, site hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatments; and, 3) Provision of signage, bin store, external mechanical and electrical plant and equipment, drainage infrastructure and connections to services / utilities, and all other associated and ancillary development and works above and below ground level. A Natura Impact Statement will be submitted to the planning authority with the application. |
| 2560078 | Conditional | 10 Apr 2025 | 1 | 161 m | for development which will consist of changes to house finished floor levels along with associated changes in road levels and services levels which were previously permitted under planning reference no. 24/60086 |
Appeals
| ACP case | Type | Outcome | Decided | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 323265 | — | Other | 21 Nov 2025 | 0 m |
| 312969 | — | Granted | 26 Feb 2024 | 366 m |
| 314984 | — | Granted with conditions | 11 Sept 2023 | 486 m |
| 312939 | — | pending | 2 Mar 2022 | 366 m |
| 311859 | — | Granted | 8 Dec 2021 | 366 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
- 8 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 12 Nov 2026
- 8 Oct 2026 Decision
Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 21 Oct 2026, 02:10. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Clare County Council before relying on it.