Observation pack · Cork City Council

29 The Drive, Lios Cara, Killeens, Cork

Permission for 2 no. rooflights to the front elevation of my dwelling.

Observations close 3 Nov 2026 3 days left

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

The application

Reference: 26/45070 · 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: 347 m²
Received: 29 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 9 Oct 2026, 23:52
Decision due: 23 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=26/45070.
Write your observation.Quote 26/45070 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 3 Nov 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
26/44865	Conditional permission	13 Aug 2026	—	416 m	Permission for retention is being sought for a garden room with a shower room
2543873	Conditional	7 Jul 2025	0	57 m	Permission for (A) Retention of attic conversion, (B) To construct a new single storey rear shed to be used as a games room and associated ancillary site development works.
2443044	Conditional	29 Jan 2025	0	383 m	A) Construction of 5 No. dwelling houses, B) Proposed entrance from Sunset Place, C) Proposed pedestrian crossing at The Lawn/Sunset Place, D) Proposed bus stop and set-down area at current bus stop, E) Associated site works, all on a site of 0.12Ha
2443408	Refused	20 Jan 2025	0	256 m	Permission for the construction of a two storey dwelling, installation of a wastewater treatment system and carrying out of all associated site works
2443191	Conditional	9 Oct 2024	0	386 m	The development involves the conversion of the existing Killeens Wastewater Treatment Plant to a Pumping Station, with wastewater pumped away to the Cork City drainage network. The development will consist of: Decommissioning of existing infrastructure at the Wastewater Treatment Plant site, including the inlet works, stormwater holding tank, primary settlement tank, Rotating Biological Contactors (2 No.), sand filter, sludge holding tank, final clarifiers (2 No.), outlet meter chamber, balancing tank, New infrastructure on the current Wastewater Treatment Plant site associated with its intended use as a pumping station, including pump sump and valve chamber, flowmeter chamber, Motor Control Centre (MCC) kiosk, new stormwater holding tank, odour control chemical storage tank and dosing plant, New access road and entrance gate on the eastern boundary of the site, post and rail fencing/screen planting/entrance gate/farm gates along the new access road. Use of the existing entrance off the N20 will be discontinued. Rising main pipeline through Gleann Iris estate and along Rathpeacon Road, with a passive Odour Contol Unit at the high point on the rising main, and a gravity sewer pipeline from that high point to a connection point on the public sewer at Northpoint Business Park. New ground mounted Solar Photovoltaic (PV) panels together with mounting structures and inverters Biodiversity enhancement including planting of native woodland on part of the discontinued site access road off the N20, amenity grassland, removal of existing Leylandii trees along North-Eastern site boundary and replacement with native planting. Site development including landscaped and hard standing areas, internal roads on the Wastewater Treatment Plant site.
2341971	Conditional	31 Jul 2023	0	258 m	Permission to construct a new vehicular entrance and all associated site works.
2341970	Conditional	31 Jul 2023	0	308 m	Permission to construct a new dwelling house, new vehicular entrance, new domestic wastewater treatment system and all associated site works.
2241547	Conditional	2 Jun 2023	0	383 m	Permission for the following; (a) Construction of 5 no. dwelling houses, (B) Proposed entrance from Sunset Place, (C) Proposed pedestrian crossing at The Lawn/Sunset Place, (D) Proposed bus stop and set-down area at current bus stop, (E) Associated site works, (F) Demolition of existing structures (previously used as a shop) all on a site of 0.12 Ha. All works to be carried out at...

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
317376	—	Refused	1 May 2024	383 m
314892	—	Granted with conditions	3 Nov 2023	456 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

29 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 3 Nov 2026

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 9 Oct 2026, 23:52. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork City Council before relying on it.