Observation pack · Cork City Council

1 Castle Meadows, Skehard Road, Mahon, Cork, T12FW6A

Permission for construction of a new porch at the front of the existing dwelling

Observations close 17 Nov 2026 4 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 13 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 7 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 26/45097 · full record
Authority: Cork City Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Site area: 468 m²
Received: 13 Oct 2026
Decision due: 7 Dec 2026

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=26/45097.
Write your observation.Quote 26/45097 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 17 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

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
26/45042	Conditional permission	11 Nov 2026	379 m	Permission at Mahon Point Shopping Centre, Mahon, Cork. The development will
26/44941	Conditional permission	29 Sept 2026	247 m	Permission for the installation of a modular spectator stand to the western
2543899	Conditional	13 Aug 2025	272 m	Permission for subdivision of existing dwelling into two separate dwellings, boundary treatment, new vehicular entrance, and all associated site development works.
2443537	Conditional	20 Feb 2025	479 m	Permission for the construction of 8 no. 18m high floodlights to existing pitch with an average luminance of 400 lux at pitch level generator plant room to include bunded fuel tank and fence and associated site works.
2443511	Conditional	18 Feb 2025	281 m	Permission for the construction of single-storey dwelling together with associated services site development works and vehicular access from existing entrance on Ballinure Avenue.
2342310	Conditional	10 Nov 2023	246 m	Permission to construct a single-storey side extension to the existing two-storey clubhouse, elevational changes including decreasing existing first-floor window sizes and all associated site development works.
2341906	Conditional	23 Aug 2023	371 m	For planning permission. The development will consist of a Ground Mounted Solar PV Array, in the existing car park with 2334m2 or 495.5kWp (991 no.) of Solar PV Panels mounted on a structure which will be supported by steelwork and anchored in concrete footings, at our premises.
2241106	Conditional	18 Oct 2022	247 m	Permission for the erection of 6 no. floodlighting columns on the main pitch at the existing sports ground and associated site works.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
311788		Granted with conditions	11 Aug 2022	425 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

13 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 17 Nov 2026

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 23 Oct 2026, 09:21. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork City Council before relying on it.