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 137 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 1971–80, after planning permission began and before building regulations (1992). 2 planning files on this house, the latest from 2006.
Each line is a rule that applies to work done after it.
MeasuredEstimatecouncil register via NPAD · build years: CSO Census 2022, small area
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
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: zoning, rzlt, constraints · fetched 11 Oct 2026, 23:18
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
Lavally Lower, file by file since 2004
2 of 2 decided extensions on the road were approved. New houses in side gardens or on sites: 4 of 5.
ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalid
23 files with "Lavally Lower" 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 · 2004–2026
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.
Calculated9 decided home extensions, 3 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála
Question 4
What's changing around you?
Figure 4
What happens to applications within 500 m
Permission isn't building. Of 9 permissions since 2016, 1 show a start notice and 0 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.
Measured12 applications in 10 years · NPAD, An Coimisiún Pleanála, BCMS start notices and completion certificates
Figure 5
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 6
Applications within 500 m, by year
Between 1 and 5 a year; busiest 2022. 100% of decisions were approvals.
ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalidUndecided
2019 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 15 Oct 2026, 02:04
0Named places nearby: estate, schemes, crèches, schoolsHow busy is this area About as busy as most of Cork County Council.
Homes approved
Here0
Council middle0
Homes started
Here2
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 047273003
Nearest school
358 m
S N Rathain, 125 pupils
Schools, stops and the council
Schools
S N Rathain · primary · 125 pupils · 358 m
Stops 0
Schools growing or shrinking planning in 3 years · pupils last year
S N Rathain · 358 m+19% pupils (125)
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 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
Planning here goes back to 2006: is the house built as approved?
Ask for: The original planning grant and an opinion of compliance.
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
Lavally Lower
Electoral division
Rahan
Electoral area
Mallow
Council
Cork County Council
Everything we found, as a list 7 lines
2 applications on this site; latest 06/11576, refused 2006.
Zoned G3 (high amenity); no vacant land tax.
Nothing nearby looks set to change.
No scheduled public transport within 800 m.
Here (2022 census): 92% owner-occupied (council 73%); 9% of homes empty (council 13%); most built 1971–1980; 70% drive to work (council 66%); population up 5% since 2016.
The council decides in a median 66 days (about 9 weeks).
2 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.
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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)