Observation pack · South Dublin County Council

20B Airlie Heights, Lucan, Co. Dublin, K78 YP08

The development consists of the retention of 2 no. windows at ground floor level to the (east) side elevation of the existing house and all associated site works.

Observations close 12 Nov 2026 12 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: SD26B/0453W · full record
Authority: South Dublin County Council
Type: Retention
Status: Referral
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: —
Floor area: —
Site area: 440 m²
Received: 8 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 28 Oct 2026, 01:34
Decision due: 2 Dec 2026
Decision: not yet decided

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 https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/71171.
Write your observation.Quote SD26B/0453W 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. South Dublin 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, South Dublin 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	RES: To protect and/or improve residential amenity	south dublin county development plan 2022 2028	8 Mar 2022 → 8 Mar 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: South Dublin County Council development plan zoning · fetched 11 Sept 2026, 23:18

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
South Dublin County Council development plan zoning	—	11 Sept 2026, 23:18	open

Designations on or near the site

Radon risk area × 1
About 1 in 10 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
SD26A/0207W	Grant permission	20 Oct 2026	—	90 m	The erection of perimeter fencing, to a maximum height of 2.4 metres, including associated access gates, around an all-weather pitch (the all-weather pitch works having previously been declared exempt development under Ref. ED25/0023), together with all associated ancillary works.
SD26A/0052W	Grant permission	19 Oct 2026	2	96 m	The development will consist / consists of the demolition of an existing shed to the rear, the subdivision of the site and the erection of two new double storey with loft five-bedroom semidetached houses. The houses will be known as 51A and 51 B Dodsborough cottages. Each house will measure 217.7m2. The houses will have two new site access points from the private laneway to the rear south side of the site known as Shackleton Way. Each house will have space for 2 onsite car parking bays in front of the houses. The development will include all new perimeter walls services and service connections ancillary to the development.
SDZ26B/0006W	Grant permission	28 Sept 2026	—	288 m	Conversion of existing attic space comprising of modification of existing roof structure, new access stairs, 2no. roof window to the front and 3no. roof windows to the rear of existing dwelling and all associated site works.
SDZ26B/0003W	Grant permission	18 Aug 2026	—	170 m	Construction of new flat-roof kitchen / dining / utility room rear extension and minor modifications to existing rear window and existing rear double-doors and all associated site, drainage and structural works.
SD26B/0307W	Grant permission	7 Aug 2026	—	206 m	Construction of a single storey extension to front, two storey extension to side and rear and single storey extension to rear of existing dwelling; New pedestrian access gate to side wall into rear garden.
SDZ26B/0001W	Grant permission	7 Aug 2026	—	313 m	Attic conversion for storage use including four rooflights to the front roof slope and one rooflight on each side roof slope; single storey flat roof extension to the side with front-facing high window.
ED26/0058	Declared exempt	6 Aug 2026	—	387 m	Full wrap around insulation on our home which will cover exterior cladding on the house under the warmer home scheme.
SDZ26A/0024W	Grant permission	5 Aug 2026	—	337 m	Amendment to Planning Permission Ref. SDZ25A/0048W comprising of the construction of a single-storey flat roof rear extension in place of the previously permitted single-storey pitched roof rear extension.

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501183	Planning Appeal	Refused	29 Jul 2026	182 m
321649	Planning Appeal	Granted with conditions	28 Mar 2025	223 m
320889	Planning Appeal	Invalid	23 Sept 2024	356 m
315768	Amend Planning Schema/Add Planning Schema	Granted	23 Apr 2024	127 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

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 South Dublin County Council before relying on it.