Observation pack · Dublin City Council
5B Griffith Avenue, Grace Park, Dublin 9, D09 AE81
Construction of a two-storey, five-bedroom detached dwelling with habitable attic accommodation, incorporating two dormer windows to the rear roof slope and three rooflights to the front roof slope, to the rear of Saint Mary's Lodge, 5B Griffith Avenue. The development will include a new vehicular entrance and dropped kerb onto Glandore Road, off-street parking, landscaping and all associated site works
Observations close 11 Dec 2026 27 days left
5 weeks from receipt (received 6 Nov 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20
The application
- Reference
- WEB3708/26 · full record
- Authority
- Dublin City Council
- Type
- Permission
- Status
- Registered Application
- Received
- 6 Nov 2026
How to submit an observation
- Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at https://planning.agileapplications.ie/dublincity/application-details/?ref=WEB3708%2F26.
- Write your observation.Quote
WEB3708/26at 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 11 Dec 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| S5 Sustainable neighbourhood infrastructure | Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure: To protect and provide for community uses and social infrastructure. | development plan 2022 2028 | 14 Dec 2022 → 31 Dec 2028 |
| S5 Sustainable neighbourhood infrastructure | Z15: Community and Social Infrastructure: To protect and provide for community uses and social infrastructure. | 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 within 100 m
- 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 | Distance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5217/26 | Further information | 5 Nov 2026 | 408 m | The development will consist of (a) demolition of garden shed at rear. Partial demolition of garden wall & railing at side, along boundary with shared access lane, (b) new pedestrian gate at front and reinstatement of railing at front to match existing, (c) construction of a single storey extension to front & side and a two storey extension at rear. Extended area's to contain kitchen/dining, utility room, shower room, extended hallway and bedroom. The extension at side and rear to extend along boundary of the shared access lane, (d) new window a first floor level on existing gable wall with obscure glazing and new velux roof-light at side of existing house roof (north east elevation), (e) new access gate to rear from shared access lane and also alterations to existing house, together with all associated site works. |
| WEB3251/26 | Grant permission | 4 Nov 2026 | 408 m | We Jonathan and Laura Eadie intend to apply for permission For development at this site 4 Saint Aidan's Park Avenue, Marino, Dublin 3, D03 VY61. The development will consist of a single storey flat roof extension (area 20.3Sq.m) to the rear of existing dwelling. |
| WEB3064/26 | Application declared invalid | 25 Aug 2026 | 408 m | We Jonathan and Laura Eadie intend to apply for permission For development at this site 4 Saint Aidan's Park Avenue, Marino, Dublin 3, D03 VY61. The development will consist of a single storey flat roof extension (area 20.3Sq.m) to the rear of existing dwelling. |
| 5141/26 | Grant permission | 20 Jul 2026 | 262 m | PROTECTED STRUCTURE We, The Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland intend to apply for permission for development at the site of, and lands north of, the Casino Marino, a Protected Structure (RPS Ref. 4858) and National Monument (No. 302, RMP no. DU018-144), Casino Park, Malahide Road, D03HH70. The development will consist of the construction of a single-storey Visitor Centre with a floor area of 454sqm on the site of the partially built medico-legal building located to the north of the Casino Marino. The Visitor Centre will accommodate exhibition space, public café, office and associated sanitary, welfare and storage facilities. Restoration of landscape setting of the Casino Marino, to include removal of existing twentieth century ditch and wall, removal of temporary portacabin and replacement of the existing tarmacadam access road and vehicular parking area with a reinforced green maintenance/emergency access route to the Casino. Conservation and restoration of existing sections of late 18th Century (altered) stone and brick boundary walls to northern site perimeter. Relocation of public entrance, car and bus parking area from Casino Park; provision of 3no. new car parking spaces, pedestrian and vehicular maintenance/emergency access routes to the Visitor Centre; provision of ancillary single-storey standalone plant/store room and substation (floor area of 50sqm) north of the Visitor Centre; bin storage, 46no. bicycle parking spaces, hard and soft landscaping, lighting, signage, drainage and all ancillary site works. |
| 5132/26 | Grant permission | 6 Jul 2026 | 381 m | Widen the front garden existing pedestrian access to create a new vehicular entrance for off-street car parking and all associated site works . |
| WEB1993/26 | Grant permission | 19 Jun 2026 | 396 m | Conversion of their attic to storage including changing their existing hipped end roof to a gable end roof, a dormer window to the rear, a velux rooflight to the front and a new window to the new gable wall, all at roof level. |
| WEB1819/26 | Grant permission | 3 Jun 2026 | 436 m | Roof attic conversions with extensions to new side gable, dormer windows to rear (2), velux windows to front and rear, removal of chimney stacks to rear (2) and all associated site works. |
| WEB1415/26 | Grant permission | 17 Apr 2026 | 313 m | Two-storey front and side extension; ground floor front bay window extension; single-storey flat roof rear extension; Velux rooflight to the front roof slope; and widening of the existing front vehicular access with new dropped kerb. |
Appeals
| ACP case | Type | Outcome | Decided | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 324344 | Disability Certificate | Granted with conditions | 16 Sept 2026 | 484 m |
| 324431 | Referral - Points of Detail in dispute | pending | 10 Jul 2026 | 348 m |
| 321037 | Planning Appeal | Refused | 20 Feb 2025 | 459 m |
| 317438 | Appeal - LRD | Granted with conditions | 11 Oct 2023 | 484 m |
| 313550 | Planning Appeal | Granted with conditions | 17 Jul 2023 | 317 m |
| 312687 | Planning Appeal | Granted with conditions | 23 May 2022 | 220 m |
| 310187 | Referral | Other | 17 Nov 2021 | 453 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
- 6 Nov 2026 New application · observations close 11 Dec 2026
Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 13 Nov 2026, 23:41. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Dublin City Council before relying on it.