Observation pack · Laois County Council

5 Ridge Road , Portlaoise , Co. Laois

Retention Permission to Retain a Single Storey Extension to the Rear of an Existing Dwelling House and to include all Associated Ancillary Works at 5 Ridge Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois.

Observations close 20 Oct 2026 27 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 15 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20

The application

Reference: 2660647 · full record
Authority: Laois County Council
Type: RETENTION
Status: INCOMPLETED APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 1,829 m²
Received: 15 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 22 Sept 2026, 16:10
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/LaoisCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660647/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660647 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. Laois County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 20 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Laois 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

Nothing designated within 100 m of the site.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660359	Conditional	27 Jul 2026	1	235 m	construct a proposed extension to the side and rear of the existing dwelling house, demolish existing shed located to the side of the dwelling house and all associated site works. Permission is also sought to retain the sunroom to the rear.
2660120	Conditional	28 Apr 2026	0	147 m	RETAIN EXISTING SINGLE STOREY DOMESTIC SHED AS CONSTRUCTED AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS.
2560623	Refused	19 Nov 2025	16	410 m	(1) Permission to demolish part of existing boundary wall, (2) Permission is sought to erect 16 no. dwelling units in 2 no. blocks with each block containing 4 no. ground floor apartments & 4 no. townhouses (3) Permission for development to include new road access, services and all associated site works
2560568	Conditional	28 Oct 2025	1	371 m	retain the domestic shed as built. Permission is sought to complete the domestic shed and all associated site works
2560293	Conditional	8 Oct 2025	71	198 m	Construct of 74 no. residential dwellings, comprising of 24 no. Duplexes, consisting of 12 no. two-bed units and 12 no. three-bed units over three storeys and 50 no. Apartments and Houses, consisting of 12 no. one-bed apartments, 10 no. two-bed apartments, 7 no. two-bed houses and 21 no. three-bed houses. All Apartments and Houses are two storeys. The development will also include the provision of private amenity space, 128 car parking spaces, including 6 visitor spaces, landscaped public open space, associated boundary treatments, street lighting, foul and SuDS drainage, and all associated site development works necessary to facilitate the development.
2560419	Conditional	4 Sept 2025	0	388 m	change use from restaurant use to takeaway Pizza outlet, of Unit 05 (floor area 93.77m²) and the addition of business ID signage to the existing shopfront fascia
2560295	Conditional	31 Jul 2025	1	456 m	make material alteration to previously granted planning permission Ref:- 21/885 at Greenville House, (RPS No. 461) Mountmellick Road, Portlaoise, Co. Laois. R32 T86V. The material alteration will consist of amendments to the rear boundary of the site from that of the previously permitted application and adjustments to the proposed apartment extension from that previously granted to be within the new boundary proposed. All works are in the curtilage of protected structure No. 461.
2460422	Conditional	17 Dec 2024	0	486 m	(i) Demolish 85.4sqm, including non-original additions to the existing house and a detached shed; (ii) Renovate the existing protected Maryville House (RPS No. 463); (iii) Constructi two 4-storey residential blocks located to the northeast and southwest of Maryville House connected to the House by single-storey glazed links; (iv) Create 32 no. two-bed apartments, comprising 14 units in Block A, 14 units in Block B and 4 units in Maryville House, served by 673sqm of communal open space. All apartments have private terraces. The development features 90 no. bicycle spaces (16 visitor spaces and 74 resident spaces); 20 no. car parking spaces; refuse storage; landscaping; foul and surface water drainage and all associated site development works.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501389	—	open	25 May 2026	147 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

15 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 20 Oct 2026
15 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 22 Sept 2026, 16:10. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Laois County Council before relying on it.