Observation pack · Cork City Council

Windy Ridge, Iona Road, Mayfield, Cork

Permission is sought for the following works to an existing two-storey dwelling

Observations close 2 Dec 2026 23 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 28 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 22 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 26/45133 · 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: 690 m²
Received: 28 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 4 Nov 2026, 23:20
Decision due: 22 Dec 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=26/45133.
Write your observation.Quote 26/45133 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 2 Dec 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
26/44696	Conditional permission	22 Jun 2026	—	254 m	Permission for retention for all elevation alterations that was garnted under
25/44359	Conditional permission	8 Apr 2026	—	330 m	Permission to replace the existing flat roof with a hipped roof using Kingspan
2544314	Conditional	30 Mar 2026	1	382 m	Permission for development at St Paul's School, Beech Hill, Montenotte, Cork, T23P529. The development will consist of demolition of an existing single-storey prefabricated building at the western end of the school site and its replacement with a new two-storey special educational needs (SEN) building. This building will consist of eight SEN classrooms with associated toilet and storage areas, a multi-sensory room, occupational therapy space, nurse's room, meeting rooms, staff facilities, and ancillary accommodation. The development will also include alterations to the main entrance at the eastern end of the existing school with a new shelter canopy and a re-aligned vehicle/bus set-down area. Additionally, external soft and hard play areas are proposed, along with a south-facing landscaped pedestrian walkway, alterations to parking layouts, a new maintenance access roadway to the east of the school and associated services, retaining structures, landscaping. and site works.
26/44469	Conditional permission	12 Mar 2026	—	76 m	Permission is sought for construction of a single storey extension to the rear
25/44346	Conditional permission	11 Mar 2026	—	244 m	Permission for retention of as constructed dwelling of 424m2
2543797	Conditional	4 Jun 2025	0	407 m	Permission is sought for the construction of a connecting single-storey school extension, containing a 2 no. classroom SEN Base, 1 no. Central Activities Space, including all associated ancillary educational spaces and circulation area. Together with the provision of a service access road, pedestrian footpaths and entrance gate-way, staff car parking spaces, the relocation of an existing hard surface play-area and all associated ancillary site works, along with connections, to services.
2543702	Conditional	30 Apr 2025	0	205 m	Permission is sought for the retention of a single storey extension to the side and rear of my house and of a detached domestic shed.
2543666	Refused	17 Apr 2025	0	449 m	Permission for the construction of 8 no. five beds, two-storey dwelling houses at Lands at Woodhill Park, Tivoli, Cork. Proposed works include new internal road and footpaths, infiltration and drainage works, all landscape and amenity areas.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
319015	—	Invalid	9 Feb 2024	371 m
313075	—	Granted with conditions	20 Jun 2023	464 m
313040	—	Invalid	15 Mar 2022	464 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

28 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 2 Dec 2026

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 4 Nov 2026, 23:20. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork City Council before relying on it.