Observation pack · Cork City Council

Ballincrossig, Glanmire, Cork

Outline Planning Permission for the construction of 2 no. new two storey

Observations close 19 Oct 2026 window closed

5 weeks from receipt (received 14 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 9 Nov 2026

The five-week window has passed. Late observations are returned unread. If the council has decided, the next door is the appeal window — but under s.37 only the applicant and those who made a valid observation may appeal.

The application

Reference: 26/45030 · full record
Authority: Cork City Council
Type: OUTLINE PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 1,103 m²
Received: 14 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 4 Oct 2026, 23:40
Decision due: 9 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=26/45030.
Write your observation.Quote 26/45030 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 19 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.	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: Cork City Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Cork City Council development plan zoning	—	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
2544278	Conditional	26 Jan 2026	1	358 m	Permission for an amendment to the previously permitted planning application ref. no: 25/43792 to include (1) A change of use of the existing boiler house (7 sq. m.) and existing ground floor public house (42 sq. m.) to banking use, (2) Proposed new totem pole signage, (3) The blocking up of an existing external door to the south elevation, (4) The blocking up of an existing external window to the east elevation, (5) Elevational alterations to west elevation including a new data box and (6) All associated site works.
2544282	Conditional	6 Jan 2026	1	165 m	Permission for the alteration of the existing brick facades of the existing dwelling with a new through colour render on external insulation on all four facades and all associated site works.
2543670	Conditional	12 Jun 2025	0	149 m	Permission for change of use of an existing 2-storey domestic garage to a 2-storey dwelling, removal of the existing garage roof and for the construction of a new pitched roof increased in height to allow for new habitable space on the first-floor level, a new 2-storey extension to the rear of the existing garage, elevational alterations, an amended site entrance and all associated site works.
2543792	Conditional	3 Jun 2025	0	357 m	Permission for the following: (1) The change of use of part of the existing ground floor public house, off-licence, and associated storage areas to a Banking use; (2) Alterations to the existing shop front to form a new shop front for the Banking Use; (3) New shopfront signage; (4) Alterations to existing facades including changes to existing doors and windows; (5) The addition of new doors and windows to the existing facades; and including all associated site works, all at the existing detached two storey building.
2543794	Conditional	3 Jun 2025	0	357 m	Permission for the following: (1) The change of use of part of the existing ground floor, and all of the existing first floor, currently used as a public house and ancillary areas, to a childcare/creche use on both floors; (2) Alterations to the existing shopfront to form a new shop front for the creche; (3) New shopfront signage; (4) Alterations to existing facades including changes to existing doors and windows; (5) The addition of new doors and windows to the existing facades; and including all associated site works, all at the existing detached two storey building.
2443051	Conditional	25 Feb 2025	0	43 m	Permission for the construction of 15 no. townhouse units in 3 no. blocks, the refurbishment of the existing dwelling on site including the provision of a first floor balcony to the rear elevation of the existing dwelling and fenestration alterations and the extension of the existing dwelling on site to provide 1 no. 4 bed dwelling and all associated ancillary development works including pedestrian access, 1 no. pedestrian crossing on the R615, parking, footpaths, drainage and landscaping
2241523	Conditional	16 May 2023	0	173 m	Permission for construction of a two-storey flat roof extension to side of existing single-storey dwelling house with a proposed new connection to the existing sewer.
2341709	Conditional	9 May 2023	0	200 m	Permission for the change of use of existing financial services premises to take-away restaurant premises including front elevational changes and new business signage on all elevations.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
317198	—	Granted with conditions	22 Sept 2023	200 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

14 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 19 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.