Observation pack · Laois County Council

Dunmore , Durrow , Laois

Re-instate an existing stone house ruin into a dwellinghouse, ancillary family accommodation and a shed and conversion of an existing outbuilding into a home gym and winter garden on a total site area of 1.5 Ha. The development will also consist of the decommissioning of an existing septic tank, installation of a new septic tank and all other site and development works, including landscaping and alterations to the existing site entrance

Observations close 25 Nov 2026 11 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 21 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 15 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2660763 · full record
Authority: Laois County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Site area: 1.61 ha
Received: 21 Oct 2026
Decision due: 15 Dec 2026

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/2660763/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660763 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 25 Nov 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.

Designations on or near the site within 100 m

Recorded monument × 3
Church · Graveyard · R140495

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2560614	Conditional	11 Nov 2025	1	167 m	CHANGE THE HOUSE DESIGN ON PLANNING FILE REG 2460520 FOR TWO STOREY DWELLING AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
2560065	Conditional	31 Mar 2025	1	167 m	USE MOBILE HOME DURING CONSTRUCTION OF DWELLING GRANTED PERMISSION UNDER PLANNING FILE 2460520, AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITE WORKS
2460520	Conditional	25 Oct 2024	2	167 m	construct a storey and a half type dwelling, entrance, garage, septic tank and percolation area and all associated site works
2360346	Conditional	24 Oct 2023		358 m	construct new agricultural shed and slatted unit and all associated site works
2360047	Conditional	5 Apr 2023	1	0 m	erect a single storey extension to the side and rear of the the existing two storey dwelling and associated site works.
2216	Conditional	27 Apr 2022	2	40 m	construct two storey dwelling house with attached car port, septic tank percolation area, new entrance and all associated and necessary site works
21804	Conditional	27 Jan 2022	4	59 m	retain (A) window in gable at first floor level; (B) Garage; (C) Domestic store; (D) Fuel Store; (E) Glasshouse; (F) Amend site boundaries from that granted under file 02/1044 and all associated site works

What has happened on this file

21 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 25 Nov 2026
21 Oct 2026 Decision

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