Observation pack · Kilkenny County Council

No. 26 Archers Crescent , Kilkenny , Co. Kilkenny

for a new single storey extension to the rear of our existing dwelling, plus alterations to our existing site entrance, plus all associated site works

Observations close 18 Nov 2026 9 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 14 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 8 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2660657 · full record
Authority: Kilkenny County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 408 m²
Received: 14 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 28 Oct 2026, 01:34
Decision due: 8 Dec 2026
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/KilkennyCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660657/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660657 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. Kilkenny County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 18 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Kilkenny 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: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities	kilkenny city and county development plan 2021 2027	15 Oct 2021 → 14 Oct 2027
R2 Existing residential	Existing Residential: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities	kilkenny city and county development plan 2021 variation 8b	15 Oct 2021 → 15 Oct 2027

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: Kilkenny County Council development plan zoning · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:04

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Kilkenny County Council development plan zoning	—	4 Oct 2026, 23:04	open

Designations on or near the site

Nothing designated within 100 m of the site.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Distance	Description
2560696	Conditional	1 Oct 2026	471 m	for development at this site situated at IDA Business and Technology Park, Ring Road, Loughboy, Kilkenny. The development will consist of the construction of an eight-storey office building, with rooftop amenity terraces at upper levels and plant at roof level. The application also seeks permission for the construction of a single-storey facilities management store, a single-storey secure bicycle shelter, a single-storey esb substation and switchroom, a single-storey refuse store, 2no. single-storey external meeting pods, vehicular entrances from existing IDA park road network, carparking and set-down, bicycle parking, new pedestrian and cyclist entrance from Loughboy Park, internal pedestrian pathways, landscaping & amenity spaces, site lighting, boundary treatments, surface water drainage and disposal, watermain and wastewater connections to existing services, and all associated site works.
2560705	Conditional	5 Jan 2026	495 m	for the construction of a single storey extension consisting of one additional classroom with toilet facilities, link corridor, connection to existing school services and all associated site works
2560488	Conditional	25 Sept 2025	319 m	for Entrance from Public Road at North Side of property
2560243	Conditional	9 Sept 2025	361 m	for development at Block E, Danville Business & Technology Park, Bohernatounish Road, Danville, Kilkenny. The development will consist of the construction of a logistics warehouse with ancillary office and staff facilities. The proposed development will have a maximum building height of 16 meters with a gross floor area of 2754.81 sq. m including a warehouse (1840.7 sq. m), ancillary office space (444.15 sq. m) and staff facilities (469.96 sq. m). The development will also include: Provision of vehicular access to the site including pedestrian access; Car parking spaces and bicycle parking; HGV yard to rear; level access goods door and 3 No. dock levellers; site lighting; ESB substation; sprinkler storage tank and associated pumphouse; bin store; hard and soft landscaping; PV panels to roof and all associated development works
2560311	Conditional	23 Jul 2025	431 m	for the construction of a single-storey extension to the rear & lean-to type roof over existing garage to the side and all associated ancillary works
2544	Conditional	14 Jul 2025	264 m	to retain single storey rear extensions to existing dwelling, including all associated site works
2538	Refused	4 Jul 2025	477 m	for (A) Alterations to site boundary, including boundary treatment. (B) Alterations and provision of a vehicular entrance to my residential site including all associated site works related to these changes
2560093	Conditional	23 Apr 2025	171 m	for a single storey extension to the rear of existing outreach and training day service facility and all associated site works

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
323020	—	open	14 Jul 2025	477 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

14 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 18 Nov 2026
14 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 28 Oct 2026, 01:34. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Kilkenny County Council before relying on it.