Observation pack · Mayo County Council

Drum , Ballyhaunis Road , Knock

construct a summer house in the rear garden that will be ancillary to the main dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services on this site

Observations close 12 Nov 2026 6 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 8 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 2 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 26244 · full record
Authority: Mayo County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 2,448 m²
Received: 8 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 28 Oct 2026, 01:34
Decision due: 2 Dec 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/MayoCC/AppFileRefDetails/26244/0.
Write your observation.Quote 26244 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. Mayo County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 12 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Mayo 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
26153	Conditional	26 Aug 2026	0	0 m	construct a summer house in the rear garden that will be ancillary to the main dwelling house together with all ancillary site works and services
2660023	Conditional	20 Feb 2026	0	313 m	Planning permission for the retention of a domestic storage shed, together with all associated site development works at the above address.
2560581	Refused	20 Oct 2025	0	313 m	Permission for development. The development will consist of the change of use of an existing granny flat with overhead gymnasium (granted under Planning Ref. P23/179) to residential accommodation for international protection applicants, to be used in conjunction with the existing residence (Planning Ref. P05/2738), together with all associated site development works.
25337	Conditional	8 Oct 2025	21	107 m	construct extension to existing housing estate development consisting of 21 units: 14 no. two storey terraced 3 bed houses, 2 no. single storey terraced 3 bed houses, 2 no. single storey semi detached 2 bed houses, 3 no. single storey terraced 2 bed houses with connection to public sewer together with all ancillary site works and services
2560136	Conditional	8 Aug 2025	1	0 m	Planning permission to demolish an existing derelict dwelling house and construct a new dwelling house & garage as shown on plans and all ancillary site developments at Drum, Glenbrook, Knock, Co. Mayo
2360472	Conditional	9 Jan 2024	0	313 m	Retention of the established use of the premises as a Guest house as constructed and as set out on the planning application drawings together with all Ancillary Site Works, Services and Signage.
23179	Conditional	19 Jul 2023	0	313 m	retention of granny flat with over-head gymnasium facility to the rear of the existing dwelling house (granted planning permission under P05/2738) together with all ancillary site works and services
23156	Conditional	9 Jun 2023	0	396 m	retain as built dwelling house as previously granted planning permission P88/540 together with all ancillary site works and services

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
320392	—	Split	15 Oct 2024	366 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

8 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 12 Nov 2026
8 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 28 Oct 2026, 01:34. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Mayo County Council before relying on it.