Observation pack · Cork County Council
Saint Bridget's Terrace, Bandon, Co Cork
The proposed development consists of the construction of 7 no. two-storey terraced dwelling houses, comprising 3 no. 2 bedroom units and 4 no. 3-bedroom units. The development will also include all associated site development works, including new connections to the public water mains and public sewer infrastructure, at Saint Bridget's Terrace, Bandon, Co. Cork.
Observations close 23 Oct 2026 3 days left
5 weeks from receipt (received 18 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20
The application
- Reference
- 26/2433 · full record
- Authority
- Cork County Council
- Type
- Permission
- Status
- Invalid - Prepare Letters
- Applicant
- not published by the national dataset — see the council register
- Units
- —
- Floor area
- —
- Site area
- 1,249 m²
- Received
- 18 Sept 2026
- We first saw it
- 7 Oct 2026, 01:19
- Decision due
- —
- 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/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2433.
- Write your observation.Quote
26/2433at 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 County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
- Submit before 23 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Cork County 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 | Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses: The scale of new residential and mixed residential developments within the Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses within the settlement network should normally respect the pattern and grain of existing urban development in the surrounding | cork county development plan 2022 | 6 Jun 2022 → 5 Jun 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 County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cork County 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26/0858 | Grant with conditions | 30 May 2026 | — | 8 m | Permission to (i) upgrade the existing surface and install low level lighting on existing walkway around main pitch and (ii) extend the backstop net on both sides of the existing backstop net located on the Eastern side of the top pitch, all to existing GAA facility. |
| 25/5072 | Refused | 29 Apr 2026 | — | 419 m | Permission for the construction of 22 no. residential units, comprising 8 no. 3-bedroom terraced houses, 2 no. 2-bedroom terraced houses, 6 no. 2-bedroom duplex apartments, and 6 no. 3-bedroom duplex apartments. The development also includes the part demolition of an existing wall, access arrangements, boundary treatments, and all associated landscaping and ancillary site development works |
| 26/0472 | Grant with conditions | 21 Apr 2026 | — | 463 m | Permission for retention of a side extension to existing dwelling. |
| 25/5372 | Conditional permission | 18 Feb 2026 | — | 246 m | Planning permission for the development of an educational campus, extending the existing Colaiste na Toirbhirte and including a new building for the relocated Gaelscoil Droichead na Banndan from north of the N71 onto the site immediately south of an Colaiste Na Toirbhirte. Permission for 1) the construction of a part 2 storey and part 3 storey post-primary school building comprising internal classrooms (16no.). specialist teaching rooms, offices, special education needs base, double-height multi-purpose room and ancillary accommodation on and accessed at the lower ground floor and ground floor levels, 2) a 2-storey primary school comprising of 12 classrooms with 2 classroom SEN base, to accommodate the existing Gaelscoil, including learning, administration and ancillary spaces and a general purpose hall, 3) outdoor play areas and ballcourts with perimeter fencing, site lighting, an amphitheatre overlooking one of the ball courts, external heat pumps and LPG tanks enclosure, and a new ESB substation, 4) site works, including alteration of 2 no. existing vehicular entrances to L2032 Cloghmacsimon public road, a new pedestrian site entrance, set-back from N71 Bandon relief road, the relocation of existing onsite surface carparking and the provision of additional car parking spaces, roadworks, canopied bicycle parking, alterations to existing boundary walls, new fencing, drainage and surface water attenuation works, landscaping, site lighting, signage and all associated site works, 5) the demolition of existing 4 no. ballcourts, a water storage tank, 810m2 of temporary prefabricated building, and ancillary hardstanding and landscaping, 6) minor alterations to the existing school building and construction of 2 no. linking canopies, 7) ESB cable diversion, at the site immediately south of and at Coláiste na Toirbhirte, Ard Aoibhinn, Cloghmacsimon, Bandon, Co. Cork. |
| 25/5037 | Conditional permission | 22 Jul 2025 | — | 331 m | Permission for change of use of existing garage to habitable accommodation, to serve as extension to main dwelling and to construct a new single storey extension to dwelling, for use as granny flat along with all associated site works. |
| 24/4209 | Conditional | 4 Mar 2025 | — | 342 m | Permission for change of design of the permitted change of use of St. Fintan’s National School (a protected structure) from existing disused school building to Community Centre (as granted under planning permission reg number 22/5172, as follows – a ) The construction of a revised new single storey extension , now proposed to be constructed to the side and rear of the existing building and b) The re-orientation of the permitted new ramped and stepped access within the curtilage of the site, from the public footpath, and all associated site works. |
| 24/6035 | Conditional | 3 Mar 2025 | — | 331 m | Permission to construct a single storey extension to existing domestic garage, together with change of use of said garage to habitable accommodation – all to be utilised as a granny flat ancillary to the existing dwelling – together with associated site works. |
| 24/4020 | Conditional | 26 Jun 2024 | — | 87 m | Permission for retention of side and rear extensions to dwelling and permission for retention of domestic stores also to rear of existing dwelling. |
Appeals
| ACP case | Type | Outcome | Decided | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 500968 | — | Refused | 7 Apr 2026 | 246 m |
| 319926 | — | Refused | 10 Feb 2025 | 273 m |
| 313670 | — | Granted with conditions | 31 Aug 2023 | 435 m |
| 313196 | — | Refused | 30 Jan 2023 | 408 m |
| 313202 | — | Refused | 30 Jan 2023 | 408 m |
| 313673 | — | pending | 26 May 2022 | 435 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
- 18 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 23 Oct 2026
Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 7 Oct 2026, 01:19. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork County Council before relying on it.