Observation pack · Westmeath County Council

Main Street , Moate , Co. Westmeath

is being sought to construct a town house. The application will also include connections to existing services and the demolishing of existing toilets and front facade of existing motor stores and all ancillary works

Observations close 20 Nov 2026 14 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 16 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 10 Dec 2026

The application

Reference: 2660556 · full record
Authority: Westmeath County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 160 m²
Received: 16 Oct 2026
We first saw it: 3 Nov 2026, 23:01
Decision due: 10 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/WestmeathCC/AppFileRefDetails/2660556/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660556 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. Westmeath County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 20 Nov 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Westmeath 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
M2 Major town centre	Mixed Use: Provide for, protect and strengthen the vitality and viability of town centres, through consolidating development, encouraging a mix of uses and maximising the use of land.	wcc cdp 2021 2027 moate	3 May 2021 → 2 May 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: Westmeath County Council development plan zoning · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Westmeath County Council development plan zoning	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site

NIAH-recorded building × 7
building misc, mill (water) · house · Moate View
Recorded monument × 1
R143948

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2560413	Conditional	10 Feb 2026	1	380 m	construction of a part one-storey, part two-storey detached dwelling and associated single storey garage structure; the construction of a new boundary wall along the site’s eastern boundary, adjacent to the road and all other associated site works, above and below ground
2560483	Conditional	27 Nov 2025	1	456 m	Retention Permission to retain two domestic sheds and all associated site works
2560202	Refused	19 Jun 2025	5	398 m	construct two number two bedroom dwellings and three number three bedroom dwellings. The application will also include new connections to existing public services, new entrance, access road, on street parking, hard and soft landscaping and all associated site-works, boundary treatments, and drainage.
2460223	Conditional	29 May 2025	2	343 m	construction of two number four bedroom dwellings. The application will also include new connections to existing public services, new entrance and all associated site-works, boundary treatments, and drainage
2460483	Conditional	28 May 2025	1	463 m	development will consist of erection of dwelling house, installation of effluent waste water treatment system and percolation system, and also for the renovation of existing derlict building on site to form shed and all ancillary works
2560035	Refused	2 Apr 2025	0	173 m	to erect a 15m high telecommunications monopole support structure (18.97m overall structure height to top of single omni antenna) carrying antennas, dishes and associated telecommunications equipment, together with new ground level equipment cabinets, fencing and landscaping. The proposal includes the removal of an existing 10m wooden pole with emergency services equipment to be relocated onto the new support structure
2460360	Conditional	5 Nov 2024	1	456 m	RETENTION permission for as constructed alterations to existing dwelling and permission to deep retrofit and extend existing dwelling. Permission is also sought to demolish existing shed and all associated site works
2460307	Conditional	22 Oct 2024	1	378 m	Retention Permission is being sought for amendments to the extension. This extension was previously granted in the application with reference 20/7067. The amendments include internal changes, an additional basement garage and the omittance of a pitched roof with a flat roof design

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
318301	—	Refused	22 Jul 2024	173 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

16 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 20 Nov 2026
16 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 Westmeath County Council before relying on it.