Observation pack · Limerick City and County Council

Chembur , Old Park Road , Corbally Limerick

Bedroom with en-suite, a kitchen/living room, a detached home office a garden shed, and a boiler house, all for ancillary use of the dwelling. Permission is also sought for construction of a front porch

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: 2661242 · full record
Authority: Limerick City and County Council
Type: RETENTION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Site area: 1,169 m²
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/2661242/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2661242 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.

What the site is zoned

Code	Objective	Plan	In force
R2 Existing residential	Existing Residential: To provide for residential development, protect and improve existing residential amenity.	limerick development plan 2022 2028	29 Jul 2022 → 1 Jun 2028

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: Limerick City and County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Limerick City and County Council development plan zoning	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site within 100 m

NIAH-recorded building × 2
Janemount House · Janemount Lodge

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
264	Conditional	30 Jul 2026		461 m	construction of a new single storey extension to the western elevation of the existing Protected Structure, Boat Club
2640	Conditional	2 Jul 2026		365 m	construction of 8 no. lighting columns for Star Rovers AstroTurf pitch and grass pitch and demolition and removal of 4 no. existing lighting columns
267037	Refused	24 Jun 2026		465 m	the construction of a two-storey detached dwelling house, new site entrance, boundary walls, and connection to services including all associated site works. Original Planning Ref. No. 21/648
2660502	Conditional	24 Jun 2026		50 m	the demolition of a chimney stack and construct a single storey lean-to extension for a wheelchair accessible bathroom, to the south side of the house, with consequent changes in the elevations
2660438	Conditional	9 Jun 2026		421 m	the construction of a single-storey side and rear extensions to an existing dwelling including the following works (a) construction of a new raised roof over the entire dwelling, (b) attic conversion to part of the new roof, (c) elevational changes including roof lights, (c) demolition of the rear conservatory, (b) demolition of a separate garage, and all associated site works
2560953	Conditional	25 Mar 2026	25	59 m	25 no. residential units: 8no. duplex units with 8no. one-bedroom units and 8no. two-bedroom units (total 16 units) in 2no. three-storey blocks, and also 9no. three-bedroom, two-storey houses in Corbally Limerick. There will also be a bike store and bin store, extensive landscaping including rewilding of the remainder of the lands including a bat house. There will be an improved entrance onto Corbally Road via existing laneway, drainage works, attenuation and all ancillary works at a site to the west of Corbally Road, and bounded by the Ennis-Limerick Rail line to the north, and the Abbey river to the west, Corbally, Limerick. A Natura Impact Statement and Appropriate Assessment Screening Report shall also be submitted
25381	Conditional	19 Mar 2026	1	346 m	demolition of an existing dwelling on the site and the construction of a new two storey house complete with a site entrance and a connection to the public water and drainage systems
2561084	Conditional	12 Dec 2025		247 m	change of use from a coffee shop (previously permitted under planning application reference 24/60815) to an Audiologist

Appeals

ACP case	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501157	Granted	24 Jul 2026	346 m
323363	Refused	14 Nov 2025	455 m
319944	Granted with conditions	30 Oct 2024	355 m
313602	Granted with conditions	4 Dec 2023	452 m
312559	Granted with conditions	20 Sept 2022	254 m
312039	Granted with conditions	8 Apr 2022	420 m
311145	Granted with conditions	1 Mar 2022	114 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

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

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 11 Nov 2026, 23:00. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Limerick City and County Council before relying on it.