Observation pack · Limerick City and County Council

Rawleystown , Lough Gur , Co. Limerick

The as-constructed ground mounted Solar PV array comprising 64 panels in total (arranged in 4 separate blocks of 16 panels each), serving existing dwellinghouse together with all associated site works

Observations close 3 Dec 2026 19 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 29 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 23 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2661239 · full record
Authority: Limerick City and County Council
Type: RETENTION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Site area: 2.67 ha
Received: 29 Oct 2026
Decision due: 23 Dec 2026

How to submit an observation

Read the file on the council register.Drawings, planning statement and site notices are at https://eplanning.ie/LimerickCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2661239/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2661239 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. Limerick City and County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 3 Dec 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Limerick City and 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.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2561222	Conditional	27 Jan 2026	1	355 m	the renovation and extension of an existing dwelling house, with the existing house to be used as a granny flat for combined living, the decommissioning of the existing septic tank and installation of a packaged wastewater treatment unit with percolation area, together with all associated site works
2461027	Conditional	27 Feb 2025	1	25 m	a) Construct a new two storey extension to the rear of the existing dwelling house; b). renovate the existing dwelling house including elevational changes; c). demolish existing rear extension to dwelling house and existing haybarn; d). change of use of existing outhouse adjoining the dwelling house from storage shed to a family flat/ independent living unit including elevational changes; e) change of use of existing stand- alone outhouse from storage shed to residential use ancillary to the main dwelling; f). decommission existing septic tank system and installation of new wastewater treatment unit and percolation area to serve both units; (g). all associated site works and services.
22969	Conditional	25 Oct 2022		347 m	the construction of an extension to the rear of existing dwelling house, relocation of existing wastewater treatment system, repair & renewal of existing polishing filter with extension to the polishing filter to facilitate proposed extended dwelling house together with all associated site works
22303	Conditional	14 Jul 2022	1	137 m	the construction of a new dwelling, garage, wastewater treatment system, polishing filter entrance and all associated site works

What has happened on this file

29 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 3 Dec 2026
29 Oct 2026 Decision

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