Observation pack · Meath County Council

Dunshaughlin Road , Ratoath , Co.Meath

The development will consist of i) construction of 4 no. Semi-detached two storey, three bed houses. Each dwelling to be provided with car parking spaces and private amenity space, (ii) new vehicular access to be provided from Woodlands Park and (iii) landscaping, boundary treatments, SuDs drainage and all associated ancillary works

Observations close 9 Dec 2026 25 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 4 Nov 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 7 Jan 2027

The application

Reference: 2661361 · full record
Authority: Meath County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: PRE_VALIDATION
Units: 1
Floor area: 420 m²
Site area: 860 m²
Received: 4 Nov 2026
Decision due: 7 Jan 2027

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/2661361/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2661361 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 9 Dec 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
R2 Existing residential	A1 - Existing Residential: Existing Residential	meath county development plan 2021 2027	3 Nov 2021 → 2 Nov 2027
R2 Existing residential	A1 - Existing Residential: Existing Residential	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 within 100 m

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels
Recorded monument × 2
Field boundary · R171642

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660803	Conditional	29 Oct 2026	1	338 m	the development consists of alterations to previously permitted Planning Reg Ref RA201957. Alterations include revised finished floor levels and ridge heights, changes to window positions and opes, removal of the communal bin store and the addition of individual bin stores to houses currently being constructed. Along with minor amendments to the internal road layout to facilitate additional parking and manoeuvring of vehicles within the development
2660447	Conditional	15 Jun 2026		467 m	planning permission is sought for single storey extension to front, side and rear of existing house for office use and all associated site works
2660054	Conditional	2 Jun 2026	1	0 m	the development consists of permission to construct a single storey dwelling house, new vehicular entrance to be provided from Woodlands Park, landscaping and boundary treatment and all associated site development works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
2561390	Conditional	27 Mar 2026		108 m	The development will consist of: (i) the removal of 1no. pitched roof dormer to front of existing detached dwelling; (ii) construction of a storey and a half entrance extension to front; (iii) construction of part single, part two storey extension to rear; (iv) construction of new rendered front boundary & entrance walls, and entrance pillars, providing widened vehicular entrance off Dunshaughlin Road(R125); (v) other works as part of the development include: alterations to all elevations, internal alterations, rooflights, and all ancillary site works necessary to facilitate the development.
266	Conditional	4 Mar 2026		348 m	permission for proposed attic conversion, with dormer to rear and velux rooflights to front of existing roof, includiing ancillary site works
2560978	Conditional	28 Jan 2026		365 m	the development will consist of the conversion of the existing first floor hair salon to the rear of the property to a studio apartment and the subdivision of the existing vacant ground-floor commercial unit to the front of the property to two smaller commercial units, with the installation of sanitary facilities in the two new commercial units and all associated site works
2460629	Conditional	3 Oct 2024	1	178 m	Single-storey side extension with a roof light, and single-storey extension to the rear.
24147	Conditional	1 Oct 2024	1	142 m	retention of (i) a chimney stack above an outdoor seating area to the rear of the existing house and (ii) a window at attic level to the side gable wall of the existing house, includes all associated site works

Appeals

ACP case	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501644	open	29 Jun 2026	0 m
310874	Granted with conditions	4 Feb 2022	339 m
310783	Granted with conditions	20 Dec 2021	287 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

4 Nov 2026 New application · observations close 9 Dec 2026
4 Nov 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 Meath County Council before relying on it.