Observation pack · Cork County Council

Junction of Richmond Street, And Richmond Green,, Buttevant, Co. Cork, P51A8D7

to carry out development namely for the construction of a new building structure comprising 3 No. apartment dwelling units, ground floor defence/yard areas, bin storage, new site boundary walls, bike and car parking including all associated site development works

Observations close 13 Nov 2026 24 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 9 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 3 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 26/2614 · full record
Authority: Cork County Council
Type: Permission
Status: Awaiting Technical Validation
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 361 m²
Received: 9 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 14 Oct 2026, 01:45
Decision due: 3 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/corkcoco/application-details/?ref=26/2614.
Write your observation.Quote 26/2614 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 13 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

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
Muintir na Tíre Hall · Maureen's
Recorded monument × 3
Castle - tower house · Market-house · R115291

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
25/4467	Conditional	17 Jun 2025	—	315 m	Permission for the following:- a) Change of use of existing storage building to new ladies dressing room and an extension to the building. b) Erect a 6m high ball stop net to the eastern boundary and part of the northern boundary of soccer pitch 1 and to part of the eastern boundary and southern boundary of soccer pitch 2. c) Erect an 8m high ball stop net to the western boundary of soccer pitch 1, to part of the northern boundary of soccer pitch 2 and to the western boundary of soccer pitch 2, d) Lay a 2m wide artificial grass running track around the perimeter of soccer pitch 1. e) Erect 17 no. 5m high integrated solar powered lights. f) Resurface existing carpark with wearing coarse macadam and all other associated drainage and development works.
24/6071	Conditional	11 Dec 2024	—	268 m	Permission for the following works: 1) permission to construct a first floor extension to existing dwelling, 2) permission for retention of existing domestic garage/store ancillary to existing dwelling
23/4755	Conditional	12 Feb 2024	—	0 m	The development will comprise the carrying out of development, namely the provision of 5 No. apartment dwelling units. The development will comprise a change of use of existing building (P51ABD7) to 2 No. apartment dwellings including all necessary alterations and extension. Permission is also sought for the demolition of existing outbuilding/shed and to construct a new building comprising 3 No. apartment dwellings, to include all necessary car parking, connection & reconnection to existing site services, site boundaries and all associated site development works.
22/6347	Refused	12 Dec 2022	—	287 m	Permission to demolish the existing shed, to construct a new building incorporating 4 no. residential apartments, a new vehicular entrance to serve existing adjacent former public house property, with car parking spaces, bin storage area and bicycle storage area and all associated site and ancillary works
22/4728	Conditional	10 Nov 2022	—	456 m	Permission to construct a new extension to the side and rear elevations of the existing dwelling, to install 2 number roof windows in the existing roof, with alterations and all associated site and ancillary works
21/5969	Conditional	12 Jul 2022	—	423 m	The development of 62 no. dwelling houses consisting of two storey dwellings with varying house types as follows: Type A 33 No., Type B 3 No., Type C 15 No., Type D 1 No., and Type E 10 No., new vehicular and pedestrian access routes through existing site openings, provision of street lighting to both vehicular and pedestrian roadways, connection to existing public services and all associated site works.
21/6783	Conditional	1 Dec 2021	—	235 m	1) Construct a single storey extension to dwelling, 2) to make alterations to the existing dwelling, 3) to demolish the existing single storey annex at the rear of the dwelling, and 4) to demolish the existing domestic garage and all associated site works.

Appeals

No appeals within 500 m in the last 5 years.

What has happened on this file

9 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 13 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.