Observation pack · Wicklow County Council

Main Street , Aughrim , Co. Wicklow

''Part 8 - submissions should be made to the relevant department as specified on the site notice ( not the planning department )'' - construction of a new public library and community garden, comprising part single storey, part two storey building with reception area, loan desk, IT space, bookstore and reading areas, children's library, sensory room, public access meeting room and study spaces and changing places wheelchair accessible WC, site works will include selective demolition of the non-original parts of the front boundary wall to Main Street, conservation based repairs to the existing masonry pedestrian access gate to the rear of the site on Mill Lane, provision of vehicular / bicycle parking, connection to all public services, surface water treatment in accordance with SUDS and the creation of a biodiverse sensory garden with native Irish flora, all on site

Observations close 23 Oct 2026 12 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 18 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 12 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 26194 · full record
Authority: Wicklow County Council
Type: PERMISSION
Status: NEW APPLICATION
Applicant: not published by the national dataset — see the council register
Units: 0
Floor area: —
Site area: 701 m²
Received: 18 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 29 Sept 2026, 23:03
Decision due: 12 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/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/26194/0.
Write your observation.Quote 26194 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. Wicklow County Council takes it online with the submission or at the counter.
Submit before 23 Oct 2026.Online through the register above, or in writing to the Planning Department, Wicklow 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	Existing Residential: To protect, provide and improve residential amenities of existing residential areas.	WI-001:DP:aughrim-town-plan	23 Oct 2022 → 23 Oct 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: WICKLOW WI-001:DP:aughrim-town-plan · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
WICKLOW WI-001:DP:aughrim-town-plan	—	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open

Designations on or near the site

NIAH-recorded building × 5
Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart · Aughrim Mills · Aughrim Mills
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
2660569	Conditional	5 Aug 2026	1	467 m	as constructed dwelling and retention permission for revised site boundaries
25277	Conditional	12 Dec 2025	0	242 m	demolition of a store room and reconstruction of a store room on the same footprint and associated works
25119	Refused	3 Jul 2025	0	367 m	erect a two-bedroom dwelling (maisonette), over the Aughrim Butcher Shop. The 99.17 square meter maisonette has its main entrance through the rear gate and yard (private open space) beside and in line with the adjoining existing development entrances. Permission is also required for any ancillary site works including but not limited to, sewage, water, rear yard paving and car parking
2460374	Refused	7 Feb 2025	1	278 m	demolition of existing building on site, a new dwelling, connection to public services, new entrance onto driveway which leads to public road, moving of existing wall and gates which leads to neighbouring dwelling and associate works
24294	Conditional	19 Aug 2024	0	367 m	proposal to extend the existing first floor Office-Storage Area, over Aughrim Butcher Shop, out into the yard at the rear, at the same level, by 36.22 square metres. The extended area will include 3 number south facing Velux Roof Lights in the roof, toilets and any ancillary site works
2460334	Conditional	6 Aug 2024	0	146 m	widening an existing pedestrian entrance in the front garden wall to create a vehicular entrance and change part of the front garden to a parking area for 2no vehicles
2318	Refused	3 Mar 2023	0	455 m	1. Divide the property into two separate dwellings. 2. Permission to provide connections to existing services for the proposed dwelling. 3. Retention for the demolition of boundary wall and relocation of side entrance gate. 4. Retention for constructed boundary wall separating both properties. 5. Retention for carparking area, access pathway and pedestrian entrance
22808	Refused	9 Sept 2022	0	20 m	restoration, refurbishment and extension

Appeals

ACP case	Type	Outcome	Decided	Distance
321979	—	Refused	27 May 2025	278 m
316098	—	Refused	22 Feb 2024	455 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

18 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 23 Oct 2026
18 Sept 2026 Decision

Generated from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live for this page. Source: national planning dataset, fetched 29 Sept 2026, 23:03. Not legal advice — confirm the deadline with Wicklow County Council before relying on it.