Observation pack · Wicklow County Council

Donard Demense West , Donard , Co. Wicklow

construction of 10 No. two storey houses (8 No. 3 Bedroom semi-detached house in 4 blocks and 2 detached 4 bedroom houses), entrance, landscaping, connection to public foul sewer and all associated site works

Observations close 27 Oct 2026 16 days left

5 weeks from receipt (received 22 Sept 2026) · s.34 Planning and Development Act 2000 · art. 29 Regulations 2001 · fee €20 · council decision due 16 Nov 2026

The application

Reference: 2660849 · 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: 5,323 m²
Received: 22 Sept 2026
We first saw it: 29 Sept 2026, 23:03
Decision due: 16 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/2660849/0.
Write your observation.Quote 2660849 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 27 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
R3 Rural cluster	Secondary Development Area: To provide for the sustainable development of a mix of uses including residential, employment, community and recreational uses that provide for the needs of the existing settlement and that allows for the future growth of the settlement.	WI-001:DP:donard-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:donard-town-plan · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 19:37

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

Designations on or near the site

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	Distance	Description
2660580	Conditional	10 Aug 2026	202 m	single storey porch to the rear of the existing Donard Community Hall within the curtilage of an (NIAH) National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Reg no. 16311004
2660279	Conditional	26 May 2026	203 m	Planning permission is sought for change of use at Barrack Street, Donard Co Wicklow, W91 A2Y7. The development will consist of change of use (removal of condition 2A of planning reference 05/3262) from restricted use as a dwelling to use by all classes of persons.
2626	Conditional	10 Mar 2026	165 m	section 254 licence - hoarding
2560739	Conditional	18 Dec 2025	245 m	(A) demolition of existing ruins of a house. (B) planning permission for a replacement two bedroom storey and a half type house and (C) connection into the existing main foul sewer and all associated site works
2560718	Conditional	16 Dec 2025	266 m	(A) demolition of the existing lean to roof extension to the rear (south west) elevation of the existing house, (B) planning permission for a single storey extension to front (north east) elevation and side (south east) elevation consisting of new front door entrance and an open plan kitchen / living area with new bedroom to the rear (south west) elevation. (C) the removal of the existing front door on the front (north east) elevation and being replaced with a single window and the insertion of new fenestration windows to the front (north east) elevation and to the rear (south west) elevation and (D) minor internal alterations within the existing house with the existing chimneys being removed
2560697	Conditional	28 Oct 2025	477 m	change of house type on site Nos. 1 – 8 inclusive in previously granted residential development (Ref. 21/730) comprising of 2 No. 3-bedroom detached dormer dwellings & 6 No. 3 bedroom semi-detached dormer dwellings in lieu of 2 No. 2-bedroom bungalows & 6 No. 2-bedroom semi-detached bungalows. All ancillary site development works including estate road, vehicular entrance, services infrastructure, landscaped public open spaces & boundary treatment will be as previously granted permission under Ref. 21/730
2581	Conditional	28 Jul 2025	342 m	a new recessed agricultural entrance to replace existing entrance and all ancillary works
2460292	Conditional	13 Sept 2024	131 m	proposed residential development of 14no. pitched roof houses (Type A - 8no 4bed Semi Detached 2storey with converted attic and dormer to front, Type B - 4no 3bed Semi Detached 2storey and Type C - 2no 3 bed Detached 2storey) and all associated site development works to include services infrastructure, landscaping and boundary treatments with a new opening to the existing boundary wall to form site entrance on Barrack Street to facilitate new estate road, vehicular and pedestrian access and footpath to include the relinquishment of the existing public car parking at the location of the new proposed site entrance

Appeals

No appeals within 500 m in the last 5 years.

What has happened on this file

22 Sept 2026 New application · observations close 27 Oct 2026
22 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.