Observation pack · Waterford City and County Council

Kingsmeadow Retail Park , Inner Ring Road , Waterford

Planning permission is sought for a material change of use from vacant retail unit to amusement and entertainment centre on two levels, together with modifications to front and side elevations including new signage and all associated site works

Observations close 30 Oct 2026 22 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 25 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 19 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 2660741 · 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: 381 m²
Received: 25 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 7 Oct 2026, 01:19
Decision due: 19 Nov 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/2660741/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660741 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. Waterford City and County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 30 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.

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
M5 Mixed use — outer core	GB: To provide for and improve General Business uses; this includes suburban district retail and local neighbourhood centres.	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.

Source: 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

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
2660278	Conditional	17 Jun 2026	0	264 m	planning permission for a single storey detached coffee kiosk, signage and all other associated site works, within the existing car park at The Hibernians Football Club, Tramore Road, Waterford.
2660001	Conditional	4 Jun 2026	0	479 m	for a change of use from residential to medical centre (a health and wellbeing facility known as The Well Clinic), which will include internal refurbishment with internal layout rearrangements, parking, vehicular access, boundary treatment, landscaping and all associated site works and connections
2660060	Refused	27 Mar 2026	0	99 m	The development will consist of the replacement of 2 No. (6.28m x 3.5m and 6.4m x 3.4m) advertising displays with 1 No. digital 6.28m x 3.4m advertising display on the south western face of the existing structure (with increase in overall height from 4.93m to 5.8m) and provision of a 1m fence on top of existing boundary wall (overall height approx. 2.1m)
2660018	Conditional	6 Mar 2026	1	177 m	to construct a single storey extension to the side and rear of existing two storey dwelling and all associated works including demolition of existing attached garage
2560790	Conditional	4 Feb 2026	0	403 m	( a period of six years) for the re-establishment and reorganisation of former car parking areas to provide a total of 146 no. overflow car parking spaces, including 7 no. disabled accessible spaces, together with associated access, circulation and site works
2560862	Refused	29 Jan 2026	0	292 m	a single storey detached coffee kiosk, signage and all other associated site works, within the existing car park
2560378	Conditional	24 Sept 2025	0	428 m	the removal of existing front boundary wall and replacing with a new driveway entrance consisting of new piers and wall and forming car parking area including a new dished kerb and all associated site works.
2560114	Conditional	16 Apr 2025	1	387 m	a single storey extension to the side of existing semi-detached house, including all ancillary site works

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501209	—	Refused	4 Aug 2026	99 m
317175	—	Refused	1 Mar 2024	99 m
316668	—	Other	9 Oct 2023	421 m
310750	—	Refused	5 Apr 2022	2 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

25 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 30 Oct 2026
25 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 7 Oct 2026, 01:19. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Waterford City and County Council before relying on it.