Observation pack · Meath County Council

Clonardran , Garlow Cross , Navan

to construct revised house design and revised site layout from that granted planning permission under planning register reference no. 25209 including all ancillary site works

Observations close 26 Nov 2026 17 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 22 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 16 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 26220 · full record
Authority: Meath County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: PRE_VALIDATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 1
Floor area: 359 m²
Site area: 3,937 m²
Received: 22 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 3 Nov 2026, 23:01
Decision due: 16 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/MeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/26220/0.
Write your observation.Quote 26220 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. Meath County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 26 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Meath 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
P5 Rural and agricultural	RA - Rural Area: Rural Area	meath county development plan 2021 2027	3 Nov 2021 → 2 Nov 2027
P5 Rural and agricultural	RA - Rural Area: Rural Area	meath county development plan 2021 2027 as varied	3 Nov 2021 → 2 Nov 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: Meath County Council development plan zoning · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:04

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Meath County Council development plan zoning	—	4 Oct 2026, 23:04	open

Designations on or near the site

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
25209	Conditional	17 Dec 2025	2	0 m	the construction of private residence, detached domestic garage, installation, of wastewater treatment system and percolation area, vehicular entrance and associated piers and wing walls, including all ancillary site works
2460613	Conditional	25 Mar 2025	1	403 m	planning permission consequent on the grant of Outline Permission, register reference number 2360418, for development at Lismullin, Garlow Cross, Navan, Co. Meath. The development will consist of 1 No. detached dwelling house and detached domestic garage. Outline planning permission was granted for 4 No. detached dwelling houses, each with a proprietary treatment system & percolation area, each with a detached domestic garage, entrance onto the public road and all associated site services
2360418	Conditional	23 Jan 2024	1	361 m	outline planning permission for 4 No. detached dwelling houses, each with a proprietary treatment system & percolation area, each with a detached domestic garage, entrance onto the public road and all associated site services
2360137	Conditional	25 Aug 2023	0	225 m	Demolition of existing school and construction of a single/ two storey 16 No. classroom primary school (previously granted planning permission Ref: NA/130357, extended AA/180160, modified AA/180402) and ancillary accommodation, 40 no. car parking spaces, 20 No. bicycle spaces, new vehicular entrance and exit, bus drop off, new septic tank, percolation area, new surface water drainage connection to outflow at Garlow Cross, hard play area, fencing and landscape planting.
221350	Conditional	5 Dec 2022	0	235 m	the development will consist of temporary accommodation for student decant during construction of main school building (granted planning permission ref: NA/130357, modified AA/180402) as follows: (1) -2 no. two storey and 1 no. single storey temporary buildings (1083m2) comprising 8 no. classrooms with en suite toilets, 2 no. SET rooms, 2 no. offices, 1 no. staffroom and all associated foul and surface water drainage and ancillary works (as per granted planning permission AA/190077). (2) Retention of prefabricated single storey building (112m2) comprising classroom and special education room and associated site works (as per granted planning permissions AA/170419 and AA170839)
22794	Conditional	21 Sept 2022	1	324 m	planning permission to construct a private dwelling house, domestic garage, proprietary effluent treatment system and percolation area, entrance onto public road and all ancillary site services
22515	Conditional	10 Jun 2022	1	158 m	the construction of a storey and a half style dwelling, septic tank, percolation area, connection to public water and all associated site works including domestic garage.
22207	Conditional	12 Apr 2022	1	43 m	to construct velux roof lights to the front north facing roof to the attic store with a dormer window to the rear and permission to retain the conversion of existing garage to living accommodation and the single storey sunroom to the rear of the existing dwelling and associated site works

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
314037	—	Granted with conditions	18 Oct 2023	130 m
311156	—	Refused	29 Mar 2022	311 m
310462	—	Refused	17 Dec 2021	131 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

22 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 26 Nov 2026
22 Oct 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 3 Nov 2026, 23:01. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Meath County Council before relying on it.