Planning report · Cork County Council · 500 m around the house · the last 12 months · 11 Oct 2026, 15:54
Coastguard Cottages
51.52844, -9.54180
Homes here mostly date from before 1919. 3 planning files on this house, the latest from 2024. Home extensions nearby almost always get approved (97%).
Flood zone (development plan) · not in Zone A or B
Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail
ZoningR2 · Existing residentialWhat it says
Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses: The scale of new residential and mixed residential developments within the Existing Residential/Mixed Residential and Other Uses within the settlement network should normally respect the pattern and grain of existing urban development in the surrounding
An established residential area. The objective is to protect existing residential amenity as well as to provide housing — which is the objective a neighbour's objection to an overbearing extension is usually argued under.
cork county development plan 2022 · 6 Jun 2022 – 5 Jun 2028
Not on this site: protected building, heritage inventory, monument zone, conservation area, EU nature site, EU bird site, natural heritage area, tree order, landslide risk, derelict list.
Licensed industrial sites within 1.0 km: Schull (101 m)
Vacant land taxNo lived-in homes don't pay it
Flood riskNone mapped within 500 m
Within 500 m
Count
For example
Heritage inventory buildings
24
house; Allied Irish Bank
Monuments
2
Standing stone; R100317
How we work this out
'On this site' means the record's own map outline touches the registered parcel (or a 12 m circle round the point where there is no parcel). Only the council's own list confirms a protected building; ask the council if in doubt. The council's map for the vacant land tax shows this spot inside an area of existing homes. Homes people live in, and their gardens, don't pay the tax. The OPW flood map's licence lets us show a yes/no only. Land on the vacant land tax map nearby: 1 on the draft 2027 map; 1 on the final 2026 map.
Applications whose site outline (or map point) falls on this property. 'No sign building has started' means we found no notice to the council's building control office; small jobs don't always file one, so ask. A missing completion certificate is not proof of a problem: an owner can opt out of official sign-off for a house or extension built for themselves.
Nothing on this site restricts it: not protected, not in a conservation area.
Figure 2
What happened to applications like yours
Extensions are almost always approved here: 92% by type. A new house in a garden is harder: 94% approved.
0%50%100%
Attic or dormer12 decided · more info asked 0%
92% · council 96%
New house in a garden or site32 decided · more info asked 0%
94% · council 86%
Approved nearbyCork overall
Decided applications within 1.5 km, received in the last 10 years. The kind of work is read from each description.
CalculatedOur classificationcouncil register via NPAD · 44 nearby, 9,057 council-wide
Figure 3
Meenvane, file by file since 1998
37 of 38 decided extensions on the road were approved. New houses in side gardens or on sites: 4 of 5.
ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalid
109 files with "Meenvane" in the address within 600 m, other roads of the same name left out. Hover a dot for the house number and reference.
MeasuredOur classificationcouncil register via NPAD · 1998–2026
Extensions and refusals right beside you 0 within 250 m · 0 refused within 100 m
Extensions and refusals near you 0 extensions within 250 m · the last 12 months
No home extensions within 250 m in the last 12 months.
Refused within 100 m 0 in the last 12 months
Nothing refused this close in the last 12 months.
How we work this out
Home extensions are read from the application's description (extension, attic or dormer, porch, garage conversion, garden room), so a few may be missed or mislabelled. The kind is the first that fits: a dormer with a rear extension counts as a dormer. Refusal reasons come from An Coimisiún Pleanála's inspector reports, so they exist only where the refusal was appealed (Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown so far). The council's own reasons are on its planning file.
A decision takes 54 days. Building starts about 5 months after permission.
Bars are medians; whiskers show the middle half. Medians of separate steps don't add up exactly.
Calculated68 decided home extensions, 50 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála
Question 4
What's changing around you?
⌖ the houseEmpty land zoned for homes
11.9 ha zoned for homesEmpty land zoned for homes · 89 m
Figure 5
What happens to applications within 500 m
Permission isn't building. Of 36 permissions since 2016, 28 show a start notice and 6 have a completion certificate. Most owners opt out of sign-off.
Purple bands are refusals turned into permissions on appeal. "No start notice found" includes small jobs that never needed one and notices we couldn't match.
Measured55 applications in 10 years · NPAD, An Coimisiún Pleanála, BCMS start notices and completion certificates
Figure 6
The next 30 days
Nothing closes within 500 m in the next 30 days.
Measuredcouncil registers and An Coimisiún Pleanála · deadlines worked out from the dates on file
Sites that could change 1 within 500 m
Empty land zoned for homes 1
11.9 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 89 m
Not covered here: council land to be sold, empty land zoned for homes (Dublin only).
Descriptions are shortened by the national planning database (to 80 characters in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, 70 in Fingal), and it does not publish applicants' names.
Sources: npad, acp, bcms · fetched 11 Oct 2026, 01:43
5 The Coastguard, Schull, Cork, P81 WV97 · 16 Dec 2025 · 1 homes · start notice, opted out no sign-off needed · 24/664 · 11 m
How we work this out
Each row is a notice the builder sent to the council's building control office before work started. One notice can cover many homes. 'Signed off as finished' means a completion certificate is on file; work done under an opt-out or a short notice doesn't need one.
Organisations only: a person named on an application is never listed. Inspection dates and links are the publisher's; read their report for the findings.
How busy is this area About as busy as most of Cork County Council.
Homes approved
Here57
Council middle0
Homes started
Here10
Council middle1
How we work this out
Homes approved counts schemes of 10 or more homes (one-off houses are not included). Homes started counts every home in a notice that building work was starting. The council figure is the middle value across the council's built-up squares of the same area (3.1 km², about a 1 km circle), so half of them saw more and half fewer.
Sources: acp, bcms, npad · fetched 9 Oct 2026, 23:03
48% of homes built before 1971 (council 28%). 61% owner-occupied (council 73%).
Homes built before 1971
48% · council 28%
Homes built since 2001
13% · council 36%
Owner-occupied
61% · council 73%
Rented
27% · council 22%
Children under 15
11% · council 21%
Aged 65 and over
29% · council 16%
Households with 2+ cars
30% · council 52%
Work mainly from home
16% · council 12%
This small area (214 people)Cork
MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 047295005/047295002
Bus
51 m
Meenvane · 237, 265 · busiest stop within 500 m: 1 an hour at peak
Nearest school
279 m
Scoil Mhuire N.S.,, 151 pupils
Schools, stops and the council
Schools
Scoil Mhuire N.S., · primary · 151 pupils · 279 m
Schull Community College · postprimary · 359 pupils · 756 m
Stops 4
Meenvane · 237, 265 · 1/hour at peak · 51 m
Meenvane · 237, 265 · 0/hour at peak · 69 m
Schull · 237, 265 · 1/hour at peak · 411 m
Schull · 237, 265 · 0/hour at peak · 433 m
Schools growing or shrinking planning in 3 years · pupils last year
Scoil Mhuire N.S., · 279 m-3.2% pupils (151)
Schull Community College · 756 m0% pupils (359)
Sources: gtfs, schools, npad, consult, moderngov, lda_lands, cso_saps_2022, National Transport Authority, Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development plan layers (CC BY 4.0), dartplus.ie project extents over NTA GTFS rail shapes (CC BY 4.0), EPA strategic noise maps, Fingal County Council · fetched 4 Oct 2026, 23:41
Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development plan layers (CC BY 4.0)
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dartplus.ie project extents over NTA GTFS rail shapes (CC BY 4.0)
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EPA strategic noise maps
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Fingal County Council
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Question 6
What to ask, and who
Attic or dormer (24/664) built without official sign-off: built properly?
Ask for: An engineer's opinion of compliance.
Seller · solicitor
New house (10/220) approved 2010: built as approved?
Ask for: The grant and an opinion of compliance.
Seller · solicitor
Attic or dormer (07/173) approved 2007: built as approved?
Ask for: The grant and an opinion of compliance.
Seller · solicitor
Any work done without planning permission?
Ask for: An opinion of compliance for the whole house.
Seller · solicitor
Reference
Where this is, the terms, the sources
Townland
Meenvane
Electoral division
Skull
Electoral area
Bantry-West Cork
Council
Cork County Council
Everything we found, as a list 8 lines
3 applications on this site; latest 24/664, approved 2025, started, no sign-off needed.
Zoned R2 (existing residential); no vacant land tax.
Flood Zone A 66 m away on the Cork County Development Plan 2022-2028 flood map.
1 site nearby could change: 1 empty zoned plot.
Meenvane (bus 237, 265) 51 m away: 6 a day, fewer than one an hour at morning peak; 2 from all stops within 500 m.
Here (2022 census): 61% owner-occupied (council 73%); 46% of homes empty (council 13%); most built before 1919; 42% drive to work (council 66%); population up 6% since 2016.
The council decides in a median 66 days (about 9 weeks).
Homes started within 1 km: 3 in the last year, 21 three years before.
What the terms mean 5 terms
Vacant land tax(Residential Zoned Land Tax (RZLT)): A yearly tax of 3% of the land's value on land that is zoned for homes and serviced but left unbuilt.
Building started(Commencement notice (BCMS)): The builder must tell the council's building control office 14 to 28 days before work starts.
Signed off as finished(Certificate of Compliance on Completion): A certificate filed when a building is finished, confirming it meets the building regulations.
Approved(Grant of permission): The council said yes, usually with conditions.
What the land is zoned for(Zoning objective): The council's development plan sets what each area is for: homes, shops, open space and so on.
Sources and licences 28
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EPA strategic noise maps
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Fingal County Council
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Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development plan layers (CC BY 4.0)
