Planning report · Cork County Council · 500 m around the house · the last 12 months · 20 Oct 2026, 00:42

Creamery Hill / Closheen Lane

51.57729, -9.03652

Homes here mostly date from before 1919. 2 planning files on this house, the latest from 2006. Home extensions nearby almost always get approved (100%).

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Time

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Not held yet for Cork County Council: council consultations.

2planning files on this houselatest 2006 100%of home extensions approved nearbyn=34 · 1.5 km · 10 yrs 63 daystypical wait for a decisionmiddle half 54–141 0open for comments nearbywithin 500 m

How planning works, with this area's numbers

steps can overlap · medians for home extensions within 1.5 km, 10 years

1ApplySite notice up, plans online
2Comments5 weeks, €20. Comment to keep your right to appeal
3Decision8 weeks by law. Here 63 days
4Appeal window4 weeks after the decision
5AppealAt An Coimisiún Pleanála
6PermissionLasts 5 years
7StartStart notice to the council
8Sign-offCompletion cert, or the owner opts out

Question 1

What's the planning story of this house?

Figure 1

When it was built, and the rules since

Most homes here were built before 1919, before planning permission was needed. 2 planning files on this house, the latest from 2007.

Each line is a rule that applies to work done after it.

MeasuredEstimatecouncil register via NPAD · build years: CSO Census 2022, small area

2007
06/2587 · new house · approved 2007 · built? unknown
approvedstarted?signed off?
2006
06/2284 · new house · withdrawn
approved?started?signed off?

On this site

Vacant land tax · not on the map

Flood zone (development plan) · not in Zone A or B

Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail

No zoning in the plans we hold.

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
Heritage inventory buildings	26	house; Rosscarbery Post Office
Monuments	16	Standing stone; Ringfort - rath

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.

Sources: Development plan zoning (councils), Residential Zoned Land Tax maps, Constraint layers (bundle), National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Sites and Monuments Record · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 00:29

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Development plan zoning (councils)	CC BY 4.0	18 Oct 2026, 23:24	open
Residential Zoned Land Tax maps	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 00:29	open
Constraint layers (bundle)	CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	open
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 19:35	open
Sites and Monuments Record	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 19:29	open

How we work this out

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.

Sources: Building Control Management System (commencement notices), National Planning Application Database · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 01:33	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open

Question 2

Could you extend?

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: 95% approved.

New house in a garden or site43 decided · more info asked 0%

95% · 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 · 43 nearby, 8,048 council-wide

Figure 3

Townlands, file by file since 2000

16 of 16 decided extensions on the road were approved. New houses in side gardens or on sites: 7 of 9.

ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalid

79 files with "Townlands" 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 · 2000–2026

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.

Sources: National Planning Application Database, An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed) · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open
An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed)	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026, 23:06	open

Sources: An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed), Building Control Management System (commencement notices), National Planning Application Database · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed)	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026, 23:06	open
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 01:33	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open

Question 3

How long, and what if someone objects?

Figure 4

A home extension's journey here

A decision takes 63 days.

Bars are medians; whiskers show the middle half. Medians of separate steps don't add up exactly.

Calculated34 decided home extensions, 5 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála

Appeals nearby 1 in the last 12 months

501031 Granted with conditions · Gleann Curaheen, Curraheen, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork · 380 m

Sources: An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed), Courts Service legal diary (judicial reviews), National Planning Application Database · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed)	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026, 23:06	open
Courts Service legal diary (judicial reviews)	© the publisher	19 Oct 2026, 01:37	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open

Question 4

What's changing around you?

Street map around Creamery Hill / Closheen Lane with 5 numbered planning items — ⌖ the houseApprovedRefusedNo decision yet

16A Gleann Alainn, Downeen 25/6278Approved with conditions · 295 m
2No 1 Downeen, Rosscarbery 26/1962Approved with conditions · 378 m
3Gleann Curaheen, Curraheen 25/6973Refused · 380 m
4St. Fachtna's Cathedral and Parish Hall, Carbery Lane 26/1737No decision yet · 433 m
5Curraheen, Rosscarbery 26/1718Approved with conditions · 436 m

Figure 5

What happens to applications within 500 m

Permission isn't building. Of 46 permissions since 2016, 12 show a start notice and 5 have a completion certificate.

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.

Measured77 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 4 and 11 a year; busiest 2023. 87% of decisions were approvals.

ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalidUndecided

2016 and 2026 are part years (*). Exemption requests and time extensions are left out.

Measuredcouncil register via NPAD

Every application within 500 m 7 in the last 12 months

See every application on the map

2No 1 Downeen, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork, P85 Y654 Approved with conditions
Construction of detached domestic garage and all associated site works at dwellinghouse
26/196210 Sept 2026378 m
4St. Fachtna's Cathedral and Parish Hall, Carbery Lane, Rosscarbery, P85 C430 No decision yet
1. Internal alterations to St. Fachtna’s Cathedral (Protected Structure RPS Ref. 790) including lowering of…
26/173729 Jun 2026433 m
5Curraheen, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork Approved with conditions
Outline permission for two dwellinghouses, two vehicular entrances, the provision of a wastewater treatment…
26/171820 Aug 2026436 m
St. Fachtna's Cathedral and Parish Hall, Carbery Lane, Rosscarbery, P85 C430 Withdrawn or not valid
1. Internal alterations to St. Fachtna’s Cathedral (Protected Structure RPS Ref. 790) including lowering of…
26/14713 Jun 2026433 m
3Gleann Curaheen, Curraheen, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork Refused
Construction of a detached dwelling house accessed from the existing estate, connection to public services…
25/697324 Feb 2026380 m
Carbery Court, Curraheen, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork Withdrawn or not valid
Construct 2 no. two storey detached dwelling houses and associated site works to include connections to all…
25/64117 Nov 2025317 m
16A Gleann Alainn, Downeen, Rosscarbery, Cork, P85CC93 Approved with conditions
Permission for the conversion of an existing attic to residential accommodation including forming a new…
25/627818 Dec 2025295 m

How we work this out

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: National Planning Application Database, An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed), Building Control Management System (commencement notices) · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open
An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed)	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026, 23:06	open
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 01:33	open

Building work nearby 1 in the last 12 months

1 no sign-off needed

6a Gleann Alainn, Rosscarbery, Cork, P85 R653 · 29 Apr 2026 · 1 homes · short notice no sign-off needed · 25/6278 · 311 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.

Source: Building Control Management System (commencement notices) · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 01:33

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 01:33	open

Homes coming 0 not started

Curraheen Rosscarbery Co. Cork · 16 homes · building started · 379 m
Downeen Rosscarbery Co. Cork · 12 homes · ran out · runs out 5 Jun 2023 · 198 m
Curraheen Rosscarbery Co. Cork · 10 homes · building started · 379 m

How we work this out

Schemes of 10 or more homes approved since 2019, from the council and An Coimisiún Pleanála registers. 'Building started' means the builder told the council's building control office that work was starting (a commencement notice).

Sources: An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed), Building Control Management System (commencement notices), National Planning Application Database, Social housing construction status report · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed)	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026, 23:06	open
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 01:33	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open
Social housing construction status report	CC BY-SA 4.0	9 Oct 2026, 23:01	open

Named places nearby: estate, schemes, crèches, schools

Named places estate, developments, inspections

Crèches and schools inspected

Name	Latest inspection	Distance
Reenascreena Community Playschool · Crèche	24 Feb 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 250 m
Rosscarbery Community Playschool Ltd · Crèche	18 Nov 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 250 m
Rosscarbery Montessori School · Crèche	7 Nov 2023 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 250 m

How we work this out

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.

Sources: Department of Education school list, Tusla early years register · fetched 14 Oct 2026, 23:20

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Department of Education school list	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 23:32	open
Tusla early years register	Public register	14 Oct 2026, 23:20	open

How busy is this area Busier than most of Cork County Council.

Homes approved

Here0

Council middle0

Homes started

Here16

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: An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed), Building Control Management System (commencement notices), National Planning Application Database · fetched 19 Oct 2026, 02:08

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
An Coimisiún Pleanála cases (ArcGIS feed)	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026, 23:06	open
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 01:33	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open

Question 5

What's the area like?

Figure 8

This street block against the council

49% of homes built before 1971 (council 28%). 47% owner-occupied (council 73%).

Homes built before 1971

49% · council 28%

Homes built since 2001

26% · council 36%

Owner-occupied

47% · council 73%

Rented

47% · council 22%

Children under 15

6% · council 21%

Aged 65 and over

27% · council 16%

Households with 2+ cars

33% · council 52%

Work mainly from home

18% · council 12%

This small area (162 people)Cork

MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 047282003

Bus

256 m

Rosscarbery · 237 · busiest stop within 500 m: 1 an hour at peak

Nearest school

984 m

Mount St Michael, 403 pupils

Schools, stops and the council

Schools

Mount St Michael · postprimary · 403 pupils · 984 m

Stops 4

Rosscarbery · 237 · 0/hour at peak · 256 m
Rosscarbery · 237 · 256 m
Rosscarbery N71 · 230 · 1/hour at peak · 492 m
Rosscarbery N71 · 230 · 0/hour at peak · 497 m

Schools growing or shrinking planning in 3 years · pupils last year

Mount St Michael · 984 m+6.3% pupils (403)

Sources: Public transport stops and routes (NTA GTFS), Department of Education school list, National Planning Application Database, Council consultation portals, Council meetings (ModernGov), Land Development Agency public land register, 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 19 Oct 2026, 02:28

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Public transport stops and routes (NTA GTFS)	CC BY 4.0	18 Oct 2026, 23:44	open
Department of Education school list	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 23:32	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026, 02:08	open
Council consultation portals	Public	19 Oct 2026, 01:38	open
Council meetings (ModernGov)	Public	19 Oct 2026, 02:28	open
Land Development Agency public land register	CC BY 4.0	11 Sept 2026, 16:43	open
cso_saps_2022	CC BY 4.0	—	open
National Transport Authority	CC BY 4.0	—	—
Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development plan layers (CC BY 4.0)	CC BY 4.0	—	—
dartplus.ie project extents over NTA GTFS rail shapes (CC BY 4.0)	CC BY 4.0	—	—
EPA strategic noise maps	CC BY 4.0	—	—
Fingal County Council	CC BY 4.0	—	—

Question 6

What to ask, and who

New house (06/2587) 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: Townlands
Electoral division: Rosscarbery
Electoral area: Skibbereen-West Cork
Council: Cork County Council

Everything we found, as a list 8 lines

2 applications on this site; latest 06/2587, approved 2007, built? unknown.
No vacant land tax.
Flood Zone A 26 m away on the Cork County Development Plan 2022-2028 flood map.
Nothing nearby looks set to change.
Rosscarbery N71 (bus 230) 492 m away: 11 a day, fewer than one an hour at morning peak.
Here (2022 census): 47% owner-occupied (council 73%); 45% of homes empty (council 13%); most built before 1919; 52% drive to work (council 66%); population up 17% since 2016.
The council decides in a median 66 days (about 9 weeks).
7 applications nearby in the last 12 months.

What the terms mean 7 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.
Approval ran out without being built (Permission lapsed / expired): Most permissions last five years.
Appeal (Appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála): The applicant, or anyone who commented in time, can appeal the council's decision within four weeks.
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 27

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EPA strategic noise maps	—	CC BY 4.0	—
Fingal County Council	—	CC BY 4.0	—
Fingal County Council and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council development plan layers (CC BY 4.0)	—	CC BY 4.0	—
National Transport Authority	—	CC BY 4.0	—
services-eu1.arcgis.com	An Coimisiún Pleanála	CC BY 4.0	16 Oct 2026
data.nbco.gov.ie	National Building Control Office (BCMS)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026
data.gov.ie	Various (see each layer)	CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0	27 Sept 2026
services-eu1.arcgis.com	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026
services-eu1.arcgis.com	National Monuments Service (SMR)	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026
dlrcoco.citizenspace.com	Local authorities (consultation portals)	Public	19 Oct 2026
www2.courts.ie	—	© the publisher	19 Oct 2026
cso.ie	—	CC BY 4.0	—
dartplus.ie project extents over NTA GTFS rail shapes (CC BY 4.0)	—	CC BY 4.0	—
services-eu1.arcgis.com	Local authorities (derelict sites registers)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026
services-eu1.arcgis.com	—	CC BY 4.0	—
transportforireland.ie	National Transport Authority	CC BY 4.0	18 Oct 2026
lda.ie	Land Development Agency	CC BY 4.0	11 Sept 2026
meetings.fingal.ie	Local authorities (council meetings)	Public	19 Oct 2026
services.arcgis.com	Department of Housing (National Planning Application Database)	CC BY 4.0	19 Oct 2026
services-eu1.arcgis.com	Tailte Éireann	CC BY 4.0	11 Sept 2026
services-eu1.arcgis.com	CSO, Tailte Éireann, OpenStreetMap contributors	CC BY 4.0	4 Oct 2026
propertypriceregister.ie	Property Services Regulatory Authority (PPR)	© PSRA, PSI licence	19 Oct 2026
services.arcgis.com	Local authorities (RZLT maps)	CC BY 4.0	18 Oct 2026
gov.ie	Department of Education	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026
gov.ie	Department of Housing	CC BY-SA 4.0	9 Oct 2026
tusla.ie	Tusla (Early Years Inspectorate)	Public register	14 Oct 2026
services.arcgis.com	Local authorities via the Department of Housing (GZT / MyPlan)	CC BY 4.0	18 Oct 2026

Measured

counted from a public register

Calculated

a rate or median we worked out from those counts

Our classification

we sorted it by reading each description

Estimate

inferred from another source (census, map data)

Rule summary

the law, simplified: check before relying on it

How we work this out

Generated 20 Oct 2026, 00:42 from the Planning Register store; nothing was fetched live. Not a legal search: the council's planning file is the record. Deadlines come from published dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000: confirm with the council before relying on them. Street map © OpenStreetMap contributors; building outlines © Overture Maps Foundation. The text version carries every figure with its source, for an AI assistant.

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