Observation pack · Dublin City Council
42, Botanic Avenue, Botanic, Dublin 9
Creation of a new vehicular access to the front of the property to provide one off-street parking space, including the partial removal of the existing front boundary wall.
Observations close 27 Oct 2026 3 days left
5 weeks from receipt (received 22 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20
The application
- Reference
- WEB3331/26 · full record
- Authority
- Dublin City Council
- Type
- Permission
- Status
- Registered Application
- Applicant
- not published by the national dataset — see the council register
- Units
- —
- Floor area
- —
- Site area
- —
- Received
- 22 Sept 2026
- We first saw it
- 4 Oct 2026, 23:38
- 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.No register URL is recorded for this reference; search the Dublin City Council planning register for WEB3331/26.
- Write your observation.Quote
WEB3331/26at 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. Dublin City Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
- Submit before 27 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Dublin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zone Z1 - DEV PLAN 2022-2028 | Dublin City Council development plan | — | |
| R2 Existing residential | Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities. | development plan 2022 2028 | 14 Dec 2022 → 31 Dec 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | Z1: Sustainable Residential Neighbourhoods: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities. | development plan 2022 2028 variation no 11 | 14 Dec 2022 → 31 Dec 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: Dublin City Council development plan zoning · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:04
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dublin City Council development plan zoning | — | 4 Oct 2026, 23:04 | open |
Designations on or near the site
- Radon risk area × 1About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years
Decisions
| Reference | Decision | Decided | Units | Distance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WEB2975/26 | Refuse permission | 30 Sept 2026 | — | 325 m | New vehicular entrance from Iona Road and driveway to allow for the installation of an EV charging point and all associated site works at 76 Iona Road, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, D09 E6W2. |
| WEB2931/26 | Refuse permission | 25 Sept 2026 | — | 259 m | The development consists of Planning Permission being sought for the conversion of the existing Storage Unit into a garage for the parking of 1No. car. This garage will be in keeping and in line with the rest of the garages to the rear of Hollybank Road and Botanic Avenue. This space will be used for the secure storage of bicycles for the staff of Kennedy’s Public House during the day, with the parking of 1No. car in the evening hours, as there is no parking allowed within the laneway. This proposal entails the provision of a roller shutter to the northern elevation with a single door to the eastern elevation. Both the northern and eastern elevations are to receive a brick finish at Victoria Lane rear on 1 Hollybank Road, Dublin 9 and all associated site works. |
| WEB2376/26 | Grant retention permission | 28 Jul 2026 | — | 329 m | RETENTION PERMISSION :The development will consist of Retention permission for 1. New roof light window to the front elevation. 2. A rear facing flat roof dormer attic window, (constructed larger in width and height to previously approved under planning grant application REF. 1372/07) the dormer is externally finished in dark-grey metal cladding, the attic use consists of a home office and WC. |
| WEB2708/26 | Application declared invalid | 14 Jul 2026 | — | 454 m | Alterations to existing three storey terraced house to include demolition of existing rear ground floor extension and rear first floor bathroom return. Proposed works to include internal reconfiguration, rear ground floor extension to include steel frame glazed canopy, rear first floor extended bathroom return, flush type rooflight, alteration and reduction of existing rear third floor window opening, landscaping works and all associated ancillary works to facilitate the development. |
| WEB2371/26 | Application declared invalid | 7 Jul 2026 | — | 394 m | Conversion of existing attic space comprising of modification of existing roof structure, new access stairs, 2no. roof windows to the front and flat roof dormer to the rear. |
| WEB2095/26 | Grant permission | 26 Jun 2026 | 1 | 463 m | Re-instatement of the curtilage of No.01 Iona Road (from amalgamation with No.03 Iona Rd, Dublin 9, D09 V8N5 as Botanic View, bed & breakfast) & Change of use from bed & breakfast to 5 bedroom residential family dwelling, with internal modifications and associated site works |
| WEB2498/26 | Application declared invalid | 17 Jun 2026 | — | 460 m | The application seeks permission for; a) The demolition of existing single storey rear return and associated extensions to the rear of the building. b) The provision of a partial two storey extension and screened first floor terrace to the rear of the property. c) All ancillary works roof lights, privacy screens associated gates, perimeter fences, drainage and all associated site works. |
| 5063/26 | Grant permission | 11 Jun 2026 | — | 60 m | Installation of a new dormer window and roof to the rear in the main roof and conversion ot the attic into a study and storage . Construction of a single storey garage to the side . Installation of new bathrooms at first and first return levels . Installation of a new window in the gable to serve a proposed ensuite bathroom . Alterations of bedroom layout at first floor level . Conversion of the attic to a study and storage . Installation of rooflights in the rear main roofs . |
Appeals
| ACP case | Type | Outcome | Decided | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 501125 | Planning Appeal | Granted | 29 Jun 2026 | 458 m |
| 500718 | Planning Appeal | Refused | 8 May 2026 | 455 m |
| 322989 | Planning Appeal | Granted with conditions | 29 Oct 2025 | 377 m |
| 314724 | Railway Order Application | Other | 30 Sept 2025 | 384 m |
| 320823 | Planning Appeal | Refused | 12 Aug 2025 | 463 m |
| 319359 | Planning Appeal | Refused | 20 Dec 2024 | 448 m |
| 319542 | Planning Appeal | Granted with conditions | 21 Oct 2024 | 298 m |
| 314232 | Railway Order Application | Other | 18 Jul 2024 | 380 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
- 22 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 27 Oct 2026
Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:38. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Dublin City Council before relying on it.