Observation pack · Cork County Council

Oaklands, Gully, Bandon, Co Cork

Permission for change of design of dwelling house, as granted under planning permission reg. number 23/5780, permission for domestic garage and all associated site works. The site is within the grounds of Oaklands House, which is a protected structure.

Observations close 2 Nov 2026 17 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 28 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20

The application

Reference: 26/2514 · full record
Authority: Cork County Council
Type: Permission
Status: Invalid - Case Closed
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 3,874 m²
Received: 28 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 14 Oct 2026, 01:45
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=26/2514.
Write your observation.Quote 26/2514 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 County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 2 Nov 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
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

NIAH-recorded building × 2
Oaklands · Oaklands

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
26/0961	Grant with conditions	30 Sept 2026	—	330 m	Planning Permission for the construction of 3 no. dwelling houses and all associated ancillary site development works including access, parking, drainage and landscaping. All works are within the curtilage of a protected structure (RPS00706).
26/0858	Grant with conditions	30 May 2026	—	166 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	—	10 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	—	279 m	Permission for retention of a side extension to existing dwelling.
25/6549	Grant with conditions	26 Jan 2026	—	341 m	Permission for Retention of door to side elevation of extension (currently under construction, Planning Ref. 23/4666) to dwelling and for Permission for stone cladding to front of elevation of said dwelling and all associated site works.
25/5037	Conditional permission	22 Jul 2025	—	70 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	—	420 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	—	70 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.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
319926	—	Refused	10 Feb 2025	392 m
313670	—	Granted with conditions	31 Aug 2023	11 m
313196	—	Refused	30 Jan 2023	0 m
313202	—	Refused	30 Jan 2023	0 m
313673	—	pending	26 May 2022	11 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 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 2 Nov 2026

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 14 Oct 2026, 01:45. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Cork County Council before relying on it.