Observation pack · Kildare County Council

16 Clonwood Heights , Clane , Kildare

for a 24sqm single storey detached garden cabin providing a non-habitable garden room/home office to the side (North) of the existing single storey dwelling house with usual associated site development works.

Observations close 27 Oct 2026 1 day 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: 2661052 · full record
Authority: Kildare County Council
Type: RETENTION
Status: INCOMPLETED APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 655 m²
Received: 22 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 29 Sept 2026, 23:03
Decision due: —
Decision: N/a

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 http://www.eplanning.ie/KildareCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661052/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2661052 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. Kildare County 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, Kildare 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

No current zoning polygon covers this site in the store.

Designations on or near the site

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 10 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
263	Refused	26 Feb 2026	0	210 m	File Ref: 21/72 the construction of proposed single storey flat roof extension to front, side and rear of existing dwelling, minor alterations to existing dwelling and all ancillary site works
2561081	Conditional	14 Nov 2025	0	299 m	for A) Single storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling along with internal alterations and site works
2560596	Conditional	26 Aug 2025	0	480 m	for constructing a car-wash bay with a 1.8m high surrounding wall on 5 No existing car-parking spaces, and all associated ancillary site-works
2560094	Conditional	22 May 2025	1	42 m	for proposed sub-division of an existing site, construction of a detached bungalow type dwelling, detached domestic garage, connection to public foul drain system, to be accessed off an existing recessed vehicular entrance/egress point & access avenue, and all associated ancillary site-works
2461128	Conditional	4 Dec 2024	0	485 m	for a new single storey rear extension with roof windows, comprising of bedroom, wet room, utility room and sitting room, all associated site works
2460727	Conditional	17 Sept 2024	0	410 m	to accommodate early years children including preschool and school age children between 2 and 12 years of age along with all other associated works in the portion of the building area previously granted permission under reg. ref. 22/1004 & 23/247. This area will be ancillary to the main creche facility already approved
24119	Refused	20 May 2024	0	188 m	Extension of Duration of Planning Ref. 19/26 comprising of an extension to the East of the existing food processing factory (gross floor area: 279m2, maximum height 8.4m) and all ancillary works
2360521	Conditional	13 May 2024	0	238 m	for constructing a motor repair and sales showroom with ancillary office space on two floors, external wash bays, valet bays, car-parking and all associated site-works

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
317872	—	Refused	13 Sept 2023	70 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
22 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 29 Sept 2026, 23:03. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Kildare County Council before relying on it.