Flood zone (development plan) · not in Zone A or B
Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail
ZoningG3 · High amenityWhat it says
Greenbelt1: Discourage strongly new individual housing from being located within the greenbelts around the Main Towns.
Protected high-amenity landscape. Development is resisted to preserve the character of the area.
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.
Vacant land taxNo not on the map
Flood riskNone mapped within 500 m
Within 500 m
Count
For example
Monuments
4
Ringfort - rath; Souterrain
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 OPW flood map's licence lets us show a yes/no only.
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
A new house in a garden is harder: 90% approved.
0%50%100%
New house in a garden or site20 decided · more info asked 0%
90% · 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 · 20 nearby, 8,048 council-wide
Figure 3
Licknavar, file by file since 1998
3 of 3 decided extensions on the road were approved. New houses in side gardens or on sites: 1 of 1.
ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalid
31 files with "Licknavar" 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.
Bars are medians; whiskers show the middle half. Medians of separate steps don't add up exactly.
Calculated12 decided home extensions, 5 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála
Question 4
What's changing around you?
Figure 5
What happens to applications within 500 m
Permission isn't building. Of 9 permissions since 2016, 8 show a start notice and 3 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.
Measured13 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
Figure 7
Applications within 500 m, by year
Between 1 and 2 a year; busiest 2021. 100% of decisions were approvals.
ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalidUndecided
2017 and 2026 are part years (*). Exemption requests and time extensions are left out.
Measuredcouncil register via NPAD
Every application within 500 m 0 in the last 12 months
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 12 Oct 2026, 01:44
0How busy is this area About as busy as most of Cork County Council.
Homes approved
Here0
Council middle0
Homes started
Here1
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
MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 047293006
Bus
720 m
Coronea · 266a, 266b
Schools, stops and the council
Schools
None nearby.
Stops 2
Coronea · 266a, 266b · 0/hour at peak · 720 m
Coronea · 266a, 266b · 1/hour at peak · 733 m
Sources: gtfs, schools, 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 11 Oct 2026, 23:43
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
Extension (99/942) approved 1999: built as approved?
Ask for: The grant and an opinion of compliance.
Seller · solicitor
Zoned G3 (high amenity), not for homes: could you extend?
Ask for: A solicitor's or planner's view.
Solicitor · planner
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
Licknavar
Electoral division
Skibbereen Rural
Electoral area
Skibbereen-West Cork
Council
Cork County Council
Everything we found, as a list 7 lines
1 application on this site; latest 99/942, approved 1999, built? unknown.
Zoned G3 (high amenity); no vacant land tax.
Nothing nearby looks set to change.
No morning-peak service within 500 m; nearest is Coronea, 720 m away (9 a day).
Here (2022 census): 82% owner-occupied (council 73%); 18% of homes empty (council 13%); most built 2001–2010; 53% drive to work (council 66%); population up 8% since 2016.
The council decides in a median 66 days (about 9 weeks).
1 homes started within 1 km in 3 years (council middle 1).
What the terms mean 3 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.
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 24
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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)