Rockcastle , Ozanam Street , Rathfadden Waterford
the construction of 26 No. single-storey residential units for older persons, comprising 6 No. 2-bed mid-terrace bungalow units, 4 No. 2-bed end-terrace bungalow units, 4 No. 1-bed end-terrace universally accessible bungalow units, 2 No. 2-bed end-terrace universally accessible bungalow units, 6 No. 2-bed mid-terrace universally accessible bungalow units and 4 no. 2-bed semi-detached bungalow units. The development will include alterations to the existing access road at the junction with Ozanam Street, the widening of this existing access road to provide for two-way vehicular access and new pedestrian access, along with all associated site development works including roads, paths, vehicular parking, landscaping, open spaces, boundary treatments, sustainable urban drainage systems and all necessary site works and site service provisions .A Natura Impact Statement (NIS) has been submitted as part of this application.
The application
- Reference
- 2660683 · full record
- Authority
- Waterford City and County Council
- Type
- PERMISSION
- Status
- NEW APPLICATION
- Applicant
- not published by the national dataset — see the council register
- Units
- 0
- Floor area
- —
- Site area
- 1.16 ha
- Received
- 4 Sept 2026
- We first saw it
- 18 Sept 2026, 15:44
- Decision due
- 29 Oct 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/WaterfordCCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660683/0.
- Write your observation.Quote
2660683at 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. Waterford City and County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
- Submit before 9 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Waterford City and 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.
What the site is zoned
| Code | Objective | Plan | In force |
|---|---|---|---|
| G1 Open space with recreation | OS: Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| G1 Open space with recreation | OS: Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| G1 Open space with recreation | OS: Preserve and provide for open space and recreational amenities. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | RS: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | RS: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | RS: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | RS: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | RS: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| R2 Existing residential | RS: Provide for residential development and protect and improve residential amenity. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 2028 |
| S3 Community infrastructure | CI: Provide for and protect civic, educational, religious, community, health care and social infrastructure. | WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | 19 Jul 2022 → 18 Jul 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.
Sources: WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028, WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| WATERFORD WA-001:DP:wccc-development-plan-2022-2028 | — | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
Designations on or near the site
- Recorded monument × 2R132586 · Mound
Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years
Decisions
| Reference | Decision | Decided | Units | Distance | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2660556 | Refused | 17 Sept 2026 | 0 | 141 m | for a gated access to rear garden, together with all other associated ancillary site works. |
| 2660557 | Refused | 17 Sept 2026 | 0 | 134 m | change of use of the existing 2 bedroom terrace house to use as short-term tourist letting accommodation (holiday/visitor letting), together with all ancillary site works and services. No external alterations or extension to the existing building are proposed as part of this application; the building fabric is retained as existing |
| 2660481 | Conditional | 19 Aug 2026 | 1 | 258 m | This development will consist of a single storey extension to the left of the dwelling measuring 6.15 x 3.36m (20.6sqm), and a single storey rear extension measuring 5.11 x 8.46m (43.2sqm). Both extensions will include monopitch roof with new windows and render finish, in keeping with existing. Works will include the demolition of an existing garage, kitchen extension & coal shed. |
| 2660188 | Conditional | 14 May 2026 | 1 | 211 m | (a)Retain indefinitely the attic conversion of the existing single storey detached house __ domestic storage and home office accommodation, together with the associated dormer and velux rooflighting. (b) Retain indefinitely the single storey kitchen extension to the rear of the existing detached house. (c) Retain indefinitely the existing adjoining garage/store outbuilding. |
| 2660097 | Conditional | 1 Apr 2026 | 0 | 400 m | the installation of 3 no. new single-storey school buildings at Holy Family Junior School and Our Lady of Mercy Senior Primary School, Military Road, Waterford. The proposed development includes 1 no. single-storey school building with Special Educational Needs classroom (100m²) and a new fenced soft play area (50m²) to Holy Family Junior School; 1 no. single-storey school building with 3 no. mainstream classrooms (250m²) to Holy Family Junior School; 1 no. single-storey school building with Special Educational Needs classroom (100m²) and a new fenced soft play area (50m²) to Our Lady of Mercy Senior Primary School; new fence and gates proposed to the playground of Our Lady of Mercy Senior Primary School; and all associated site and ancillary works. |
| 2560704 | Conditional | 4 Feb 2026 | 1 | 246 m | the raising of the existing roof to make the previous single storey house a two storey dwelling with the addition of a rear balcony and works to existing rear boundary walls along with the associated site works. |
| 2560778 | Conditional | 18 Dec 2025 | 1 | 449 m | a new single-storey extension to the side and front of existing dwelling, together with all associated site works |
| 2560685 | Conditional | 13 Nov 2025 | 1 | 210 m | Demolish existing single storey extension and construct a new two-storey extension to the rear, elevational alterations to the front and side and associated site works |
Appeals
| ACP case | Type | Outcome | Decided | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 319243 | — | Refused | 21 Aug 2024 | 169 m |
| 314974 | — | Granted with conditions | 8 Mar 2024 | 413 m |
| 313334 | — | Granted with conditions | 8 Dec 2023 | 140 m |
| 316596 | — | Other | 4 Oct 2023 | 291 m |
| 316682 | — | Other | 22 Sept 2023 | 337 m |
| 316826 | — | Other | 21 Sept 2023 | 140 m |
| 312816 | — | Granted with conditions | 24 Mar 2023 | 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 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 9 Oct 2026
- 4 Sept 2026 Decision
Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 18 Sept 2026, 15:44. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Waterford City and County Council before relying on it.