Observation pack · Cork City Council

Kendal, 69 Rosewood, Ballincollig, Cork

Permission for construction of a two storey extension and alterations to a two

Observations close 16 Oct 2026 3 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 11 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 5 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 26/45023 · full record
Authority: Cork City Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 337 m²
Received: 11 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 4 Oct 2026, 23:40
Decision due: 5 Nov 2026
Decision: not yet decided

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 https://planning.agileapplications.ie/corkcity/application-details/?ref=26/45023.
Write your observation.Quote 26/45023 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. Cork City Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 16 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Cork City 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	Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods: To protect and provide for residential uses and amenities, local services and community, institutional, educational and civic uses.	CI-002:DP:cork-city-development-plan-2022-2028-variation-no-3-npf-implementation	8 Aug 2022 → 8 Aug 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: CORKCITY CI-002:DP:cork-city-development-plan-2022-2028-variation-no-3-npf-implementation · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
CORKCITY CI-002:DP:cork-city-development-plan-2022-2028-variation-no-3-npf-implementation	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site

Nothing designated within 100 m of the site.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
26/44663	Conditional permission	24 Sept 2026	—	65 m	Permission for the demolition of garage, single-storey rear extension and
26/44559	Conditional permission	27 Apr 2026	—	426 m	Permission for an single storey ground floor extension to the rear.
25/44428	Conditional permission	23 Feb 2026	—	486 m	Permission for alterations, elevational changes, convert the existing attic spac
2544336	Conditional	26 Jan 2026	1	412 m	Permission is sought for the construction of a part single-storey and part two-storey side extension to the existing dwelling house and all associated site works.
2544294	Conditional	13 Jan 2026	1	276 m	Permission for retention of a rear extension, change of window and door layout on all elevations, a car port, a domestic garage and an out building.
2544092	Conditional	7 Oct 2025	0	343 m	Permission for the construction of a two storey domestic extension to dwelling house together with all associated site works.
2443185	Conditional	13 Jun 2025	0	380 m	Permission is sought for development at the existing secondary school to include: removal of existing temporary accommodation, partial demolitions and alterations to the existing building, extensions ranging from part four-storey, three-storey and single-storey at the front and sides of the existing building, which includes a new P.E. hall facility, special education needs unit, general purpose hall, specialist and general classrooms, roof garden, and all ancillary teacher and pupil facilities, a single-storey sub-station and switch room together with all associated siteworks, including reconfigured site entrances, access roads, parking, bike shelters, ballcourts, site lighting, boundary treatments, landscaping, and all ancillary development works.
2543621	Conditional	2 Apr 2025	0	432 m	Permission for alterations and to construct an attic storage space to include 2 no. velux roof lights to the Front Elevation, (B) Permission for retention of a velux roof light to the rear elevation with all associated site works to my dwelling.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
322979	—	Granted with conditions	11 Nov 2025	380 m
314635	—	Refused	9 Nov 2023	383 m
314636	—	Refused	9 Nov 2023	398 m
315006	—	Granted with conditions	12 Jul 2023	278 m
310650	—	Granted with conditions	15 Nov 2021	198 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

11 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 16 Oct 2026

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:40. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork City Council before relying on it.