Observation pack · Cork City Council

Whispering Pines, Piercetown, Whites Cross, Cork, T23YVH7

Permission for retention of conversion of former office/showroom to 3 no. studio

Observations close 21 Oct 2026 7 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 16 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 10 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 26/45037 · full record
Authority: Cork City Council
Type: RETENTION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 2,482 m²
Received: 16 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 4 Oct 2026, 23:40
Decision due: 10 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=26/45037.
Write your observation.Quote 26/45037 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 21 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
P5 Rural and agricultural	City Hinterland: To protect and improve rural amenity and provide for the development of agriculture.	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
2442649	Conditional	3 Apr 2024	0	483 m	Permission for retention for the construction of a domestic garage onto side of dwelling house and for a sunroom to the rear of dwelling house.
23/5974	Conditional	26 Nov 2023	—	214 m	Construction of a dwelling, a site entrance and all associated site works including a waste water treatment system.
2241282	Conditional	15 Sept 2022	0	491 m	Permission to construct (I) Palisade fencing with gate to replace existing chain-link fence and gate (II) V Mesh fence behind existing roadside hedge and all associated site works.

Appeals

No appeals within 500 m in the last 5 years.

What has happened on this file

16 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 21 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.