Observation pack · Westmeath County Council

Daly Auto Sales Lynn Road , Mullingar , Co. Westmeath

To construct a path, wall and clad railing at the rear of my property with all ancillary site works

Observations close 2 Dec 2026 19 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 28 Oct 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20

The application

Reference: 2660585 · full record
Authority: Westmeath County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: INCOMPLETED APPLICATION
Site area: 1,831 m²
Received: 28 Oct 2026

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/2660585/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660585 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 2 Dec 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.

Nearby precedents within 500 m, last 5 years

Decisions

Reference	Decision	Decided	Units	Distance	Description
2660293	Conditional	28 Jul 2026		194 m	the Installation of a new mezzanine floor including internal stairs within the existing warehouse/light industrial unit, demolition of suspended ceiling, minor modifications to the elevations to include a new customer entrance, external signage, increasing the height of 2 no. existing glazed doors and replacing with roller shutter doors, a new fire door, removal of 6 no. posts and all necessary enabling works
2560495	Conditional	8 Jul 2026	73	500 m	development comprising 93 no. residential units and a childcare facility at Saunders Bridge, Ardmore Road, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, on a site of 4.48 Ha. The proposed development will consist of: 81 no. 2-storey housing units; 5 no. 3 bed mid terraced units, 54 no.3 bed semi-detached units, 22 no. 4 bed semi-detached units and 12 no. 2 bed apartment units in a singular block, a creche facility (circa. 242 sqm), the formation of 3 no. vehicular access points off the established residential access road and associated residential road network, active travel route, 184 no. car parking spaces and 220 no. cycle parking spaces. The proposal includes all associated hard and soft landscaping, boundary treatments, footpaths an ESB Sub-Station, and all other ancillary works above and below ground
2560454	Conditional	25 Jun 2026		154 m	Retention Permission for fuel sales from existing office/storage structure, 1no Main I.D Price advertising structure, 3no freestanding signage elements, 4no wall mounted signage elements affixed to gantry, building, and/or tank farm bund structures, 1no Air/Water services unit and fuel/lubricant forecourt displays
2660185	Refused	10 Jun 2026	1	368 m	to convert existing garage space into habitable space and new two storey extension to the side ( North-East ) of the existing dwelling to include a new one bedroom granny flat with new entrance to Side ( North-East ) and all with proposed site development works
2660142	Conditional	21 May 2026	2	0 m	RETENTION permission to retain the existing extensions to the side of my dwelling to include a sun room, w.c. and two bedrooms and to retain shed at rear consisting of storage area's
2660038	Conditional	12 May 2026	1	350 m	to renovate & extend existing semi-detached dwelling. The extension is a single storey extension to the side existing dwelling, also to include revisions to front elevation window sizes, internal alterations & all associated works
2560558	Conditional	8 May 2026	1	274 m	to increase the height of the existing boundary wall to the west (front) of the site, from 1.2m high to 2.1m in height and all associated site works
2660119	Conditional	7 May 2026		107 m	development which will consist of the retention of alterations to the front facade of the existing industrial unit and all associated site works and services

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
501836		Invalid	6 Aug 2026	500 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

28 Oct 2026 New application · observations close 2 Dec 2026
28 Oct 2026 Decision

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