Observation pack · Louth County Council
Knocknagoran , Omeath , Co. Louth
Permission for internal alterations to an existing retail shop to accommodate an off-licence area for the sale of alcohol products and associated site development works
Observations close 28 Oct 2026 19 days left
5 weeks from receipt (received 23 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 17 Nov 2026
The application
- Reference
- 2660651 · full record
- Authority
- Louth County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Status
- NEW APPLICATION
- Applicant
- not published by the national dataset — see the council register
- Units
- 0
- Floor area
- —
- Site area
- 135 m²
- Received
- 23 Sept 2026
- We first saw it
- 7 Oct 2026, 01:19
- Decision due
- 17 Nov 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/LouthCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660651/0.
- Write your observation.Quote
2660651at 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. Louth County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
- Submit before 28 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Louth 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 and enhance the amenity and character of existing residential communities. | LO-001:DP:louth-county-development-plan | 11 Nov 2021 → 1 Jan 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: LOUTH LO-001:DP:louth-county-development-plan · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| LOUTH LO-001:DP:louth-county-development-plan | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
Designations on or near the site
- Recorded monument × 3Church · Graveyard · R175373
Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years
Decisions
| Reference | Decision | Decided | Units | Distance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2591 | Conditional | 12 Jun 2026 | 0 | 340 m | Permission for the demolition of existing retail unit and the construction of a new cafe and associated signage with ancillary staff rooms and storage at first floor level and all ancillary and associated site works including site clearance works, car parking, cycle parking, bin storage, hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works. *Significant Further Information received on 22/05/2026* |
| 2560740 | Conditional | 24 Apr 2026 | 1 | 318 m | Permission consequent for a dwelling house and associated site development works. (Outline Permission Ref 23/60199 & ABP-318008-23) |
| 25164 | Conditional | 17 Dec 2025 | 1 | 456 m | Permission for the widening of an existing vehicular entrance to the front of an existing dwelling house and associated site development works |
| 2560513 | Conditional | 28 Nov 2025 | 0 | 0 m | The proposed development will include the installation of a standalone totem signage and new canopy over the existing petrol pumps and partially over the existing building, along with illuminated advertising signage to the canopy structure and all other associated site works. |
| 2560204 | Conditional | 18 Jul 2025 | 0 | 336 m | Permission for the following: 1. Increase to site boundaries previously granted planning permission, 2. Construction of new playing field to include all groundworks, 3. Erection of 4 No. 18m high steel columns for floodlighting to new playing field, 4. Fencing around perimeter of new playing field, 5. Construction of pedestrian walkway together with low level lighting around new playing field, 6. Extension of existing ball stops to rear of goals, 7. New scoreboard and all Associated site development works. |
| 2460340 | Refused | 18 Jun 2025 | 20 | 376 m | Permission for (a) Construction of 20 no. residential units comprising of: (i) 5 no. 2 storey, 3 bed dwelling houses in 1no. terrace block; (ii) 10 no. 2 storey, 2 bed dwelling houses in 2 no. terrace block of 5 units in each block; (iii) 1 no. detached 2 storey 4 bed dwelling house fronting onto Howe’s Hill; (iv) 1 no. detached 2 storey 2 bed dwelling house; (v) 1 no. detached single storey 1 bed dwelling house; (vi) partial demolition, extension, renovation, restoration and subdivision of Prospect House, a 2 storey dwelling house into 2 separate dwelling houses. Prospect House is a protected structure within the Louth County Development Plan 2021-2027 (Ref. LH005-067); (b) demolition of existing outbuilding and (c) associated site development works including hard and soft landscaping, planted weldmesh retaining wall, self-contained ecological/wildlife corridor, connection to mains sewerage, installation of new surface water drainage system, mixed boundary treatments, provision of public amenity space *Significant Further Information Received on 06/05/2025 & Revised Notices 13/05/2025 - subject of a revised stage 2 appropriate assessment (Natura Impact Statement) with the reduction of residential units from 20 to 17 and the provision of 3 new short term let units* |
| 2460822 | Conditional | 6 Jun 2025 | 0 | 484 m | Demolition of 2 no. existing commercial units (café / retail / storage use) and construction of a three storey mixed commercial & residential building. The lower ground floor comprises of a two bed room apartment and bike & storage area, the ground floor includes 2no. ground floor retail units, with 1no. two bed apartment and 1no. one bed apartment and the first floor comprises of 1no. one bed and 1no. two bed apartments (5no. apartments and 2no. retail units in total) on a site of 0.1318 hectares. All residential units to be provided with private amenity space in the form of balconies. The development includes the provision of new vehicular entrance area, car and bike parking areas, bin storage, EV charging points, revised boundary treatments, new footpaths and stepped access, foul and surface water drainage, watermains, alterations to the existing site levels, retaining walls, all associated / ancillary landscaping and site development works. An AA Screening report was submitted as part of this application *Significant Further Information Received on 13/05/2025* |
| 24103 | Refused | 30 May 2025 | 0 | 340 m | Permission for development within the curtilage of Protected Structure, Nucella Lodge, Knocknagoran - Ref. No. LHS005-068 & NIAH Ref. 13833012, for the demolition of existing retail unit and the construction of a new cafe and associated signage with ancillary storage at first floor level and all ancillary and associated site works including clearance works, car parking, cycle parking, bin storage, hard and soft landscaping and boundary treatment works *Significant Further Information Received on 08/05/2025 - revised internal layout, elevational changes and revised site layout to include additional parking* |
Appeals
| ACP case | Type | Outcome | Decided | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 322683 | — | Other | 18 Nov 2025 | 376 m |
| 323032 | — | open | 14 Jul 2025 | 376 m |
| 318983 | — | Granted with conditions | 5 Feb 2025 | 307 m |
| 318008 | — | Granted with conditions | 27 Jun 2024 | 301 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
- 23 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 28 Oct 2026
- 23 Sept 2026 Decision
Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 7 Oct 2026, 01:19. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Louth County Council before relying on it.