Planning report · Kerry County Council · 500 m around the house · the last 12 months · 12 Oct 2026, 18:44
Knockmoyle
52.26705, -9.72043
Homes here mostly date from the 1970s. 2 planning files on this house, the latest from 2020. Home extensions nearby almost always get approved (98%).
Applications, appeals and commencement notices for this county. Consultations, zoning and RZLT maps: Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow only for now.
2planning files on this houselatest 202098%of home extensions approved nearbyn=123 · 1.5 km · 10 yrs55 daystypical wait for a decisionmiddle half 53–550open 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 55 days
- 4Appeal window4 weeks after the decision
- 5AppealAt An Coimisiún Pleanála
- 6PermissionLasts 5 years
- 7StartStart notice to the council. Here about 4 months after
- 8Sign-offCompletion cert, or the owner opts out
What's the planning story of this house?
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 2020.
Each line is a rule that applies to work done after it.
MeasuredEstimatecouncil register via NPAD · build years: CSO Census 2022, small area
- 202020495 · garden room · approved 2020 · started, no sign-off neededapprovedstartedsigned off?
- 201818336 · work already done · approved 2018 · work already doneapprovedstartedsigned off?
On this site
R2
Zoning · Existing residential
Yes
Vacant land tax · 3% of land value a year
Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail
ZoningR2 · Existing residential
What it says
Existing Residential: To protect and improve existing residential areas
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.
tralee municipal district settlements s plan variation no 1 of the kcdp 2022 2028 · 21 Jul 2025 – 14 Aug 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: Henry Denny & Sons Limited (792 m)
Vacant land taxYes 3% of the land's value a year
Flood riskNone mapped within 500 m
| Within 500 m | Count | For example |
|---|---|---|
| Heritage inventory buildings | 6 | Ballyrickard House; Katy's Cottage |
| Monuments | 7 | Enclosure; 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. This land is on the council's final map for the vacant land tax. Unless it is a home someone lives in (or its garden), the owner pays 3% of the land's value a year until homes are built or the zoning changes. The OPW flood map's licence lets us show a yes/no only. Land on the vacant land tax map nearby: 44 on the draft 2027 map; 41 on the final 2026 map.
Sources: zoning, epa_leap, rzlt, constraints, constraints.niah, constraints.smr · fetched 11 Oct 2026, 23:18
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| zoning | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 Oct 2026, 23:18 | open |
| epa_leap | CC-BY-4.0 | 5 Oct 2026, 23:09 | open |
| rzlt | CC-BY-4.0 | 12 Oct 2026, 00:14 | open |
| constraints | mixed — CC-BY-4.0 except OPW flood (CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0, publishable=false) | 27 Sept 2026, 19:37 | open |
| constraints.niah | CC-BY-4.0 | 27 Sept 2026, 19:35 | open |
| constraints.smr | 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.
Could you extend?
Nothing on this site restricts it: not protected, not in a conservation area.
What happened to applications like yours
Extensions are almost always approved here: 95–100% by type. A new house in a garden is harder: 84% approved, and 1 in 3 is asked for more information.
Single-storey rear22 decided · more info asked 5%
95% · council 99%
Two-storey rear16 decided · more info asked 44%
100% · council 98%
New house in a garden or site37 decided · more info asked 32%
84% · council 87%
Approved nearbyKerry 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 · 75 nearby, 3,595 council-wide
Tralee, file by file since 2017
29 of 30 decided extensions on the road were approved. New houses in side gardens or on sites: 1 of 3.
ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalid
55 files with "Tralee" 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 · 2017–2026
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.
How long, and what if someone objects?
A home extension's journey here
A decision takes 55 days. 1 in 4 is asked for more information, which adds about 74 days. Building starts about 4 months after permission.
Bars are medians; whiskers show the middle half. Medians of separate steps don't add up exactly.
Calculated123 decided home extensions, 20 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála
What appeals changed
2 of 5 appealed refusals became permissions. 3 of 15 appealed approvals were reversed.
Refusals appealed5 decided
2 became permissions
Approvals appealed15 decided
3 reversed
Ended approvedEnded refusedWithdrawn, invalid or other
Every appeal decided within 1.5 km in 10 years, any kind of development.
CalculatedAn Coimisiún Pleanála cases linked to the council file
Appeals nearby 2 in the last 12 months
What's changing around you?
- 143 O Rahilly's Villas, Tralee 2660576
- 21.5 ha zoned for homes
- 33.8 ha zoned for homes
- 40.6 ha zoned for homes
- 50.8 ha zoned for homes
- 61.6 ha zoned for homes
- 70.4 ha zoned for homes
- 8Pat Healy Park, Knockanacuig 2660275
- 938 Cois li, Ballyvelly 2560990
What happens to applications within 500 m
Permission isn't building. Of 38 permissions since 2016, 4 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.
Measured44 applications in 10 years · NPAD, An Coimisiún Pleanála, BCMS start notices and completion certificates
The next 30 days
1 deadline within 500 m; the first closes 16 Oct 2026.
Time to appeal ends
- Time to appeal ends 16 Oct 20264 days left12660576 · CONDITIONAL — Permission to (a) renovate existing dwelling, (b) demolish existing area at rear of dwelling, (c) build a…€220 to An Coimisiún Pleanála (€110 observer) · 443 m away
Measuredcouncil registers and An Coimisiún Pleanála · deadlines worked out from the dates on file
Sites that could change 10 within 500 m
Empty land zoned for homes 10
- 21.5 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 83 m
- 33.8 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 92 m
- 40.6 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 92 m
- 50.8 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 92 m
- 61.6 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 94 m
- 70.4 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 95 m
- 0.3 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 133 m
- 0.4 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 164 m
- 0.5 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 209 m
- 4.2 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 0 m
Not covered here: council land to be sold, empty land zoned for homes (Dublin only).
Applications within 500 m, by year
Between 3 and 6 a year; busiest 2019. 86% 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 4 in the last 12 months
See every application on the map
- 143 O Rahilly's Villas , Tralee , Co.Kerry Approved with conditionsPermission to (a) renovate existing dwelling, (b) demolish existing area at rear of dwelling, (c) build a…
- 8Pat Healy Park , Knockanacuig , Tralee Co. Kerry Approved with conditionspermission for demolition and removal of existing dressing-rooms building, storage containers and pitch…
- 938 Cois li , Ballyvelly , Tralee RefusedRetention Permission to retain existing dwelling as constructed within revised boundaries
- 38A COIS LI , BALLYVELY , TRALEE RefusedBUILD A PRIVATE TWO STOREY DWELLING WITH CONNECTION TO MAIN SEWER
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.
Named places nearby: estate, schemes, crèches, schools
Named places estate, developments, inspections
Crèches and schools inspected
| Name | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Benin Casa Montessori School · Crèche | 22 Feb 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | 508 m |
| McConologue Montessori · Crèche | 1 Apr 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 m |
| Bright Stars · Crèche | 12 Feb 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 m |
| Buddies Crèche & Childcare Facility · Crèche | 29 Jul 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 m |
| Ballyard Montessori School · Crèche | 21 Apr 2026 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 m |
| Budding Explorers · Crèche | 28 May 2026 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 m |
| Camp Community Childcare CLG · Crèche | 27 Aug 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 m |
| Dromtacker Creche Limited · Crèche | 9 Apr 2026 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | approx. 702 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.
How busy is this area Busier than most of Kerry County Council.
Homes approved
Here14
Council middle0
Homes started
Here147
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.
What's the area like?
This street block against the council
78% owner-occupied (council 70%).
Homes built before 1971
28% · council 26%
Homes built since 2001
0% · council 32%
Owner-occupied
78% · council 70%
Rented
17% · council 24%
Children under 15
14% · council 18%
Aged 65 and over
37% · council 19%
Households with 2+ cars
29% · council 44%
Work mainly from home
10% · council 11%
This small area (170 people)Kerry
MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 077161001
Bus
141 m
Kerins Park · 290A · busiest stop within 500 m: 1 an hour at peak
Nearest school
717 m
Holy Family, 265 pupils
Schools, stops and the council
Schools
- Holy Family · primary · 265 pupils · 717 m
- St Itas & St Josephs Ns · primary · 127 pupils · 785 m
- Scoil Eoin · primary · 589 pupils · 935 m
Stops 12
- Kerins Park · 290A · 1/hour at peak · 141 m
- Strand Street · 290A · 1/hour at peak · 285 m
- Spa Road · 290B · 1/hour at peak · 305 m
- Strand Street · 290B · 1/hour at peak · 551 m
- Ash Gr · 290A · 1/hour at peak · 605 m
- Tralee Prnce's St · 300 · 0/hour at peak · 686 m
- Tralee Prnce's St · 273, 275 · 1/hour at peak · 722 m
- Tralee Prnce's St · 273, 275 · 1/hour at peak · 734 m
Schools growing or shrinking planning in 3 years · pupils last year
- Holy Family · 717 m-6.4% pupils (265)
- St Itas & St Josephs Ns · 785 m+0.8% pupils (127) · an extension 2026, no decision yet
- Scoil Eoin · 935 m-0.5% pupils (589)
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
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| gtfs | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 Oct 2026, 23:43 | open |
| schools | CC-BY-4.0 | 27 Sept 2026, 23:32 | open |
| npad | CC-BY-4.0 | 12 Oct 2026, 01:44 | open |
| consult | public | 12 Oct 2026, 01:26 | open |
| moderngov | public | 12 Oct 2026, 01:27 | open |
| lda_lands | 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 | — | — |
What to ask, and who
- Garden room (20495) built without official sign-off: built properly?Seller · solicitorAsk for: An engineer's opinion of compliance.
- Work already done (18336): work kept with permission. Done as approved?Seller · solicitorAsk for: The retention grant and an opinion of compliance.
- On the vacant land tax map: is the 3% tax being paid?SolicitorAsk for: Your solicitor's check of liability or exemption.
- Any work done without planning permission?Seller · solicitorAsk for: An opinion of compliance for the whole house.
Where this is, the terms, the sources
- Townland
- Tralee
- Electoral division
- Tralee Urban
- Electoral area
- Tralee
- Council
- Kerry County Council
Everything we found, as a list 8 lines
- 2 applications on this site; latest 20495, approved 2020, started, no sign-off needed.
- Zoned R2 (existing residential); on the vacant land tax map.
- 10 sites nearby could change: 10 empty zoned plots.
- Kerins Park (bus 290A) 141 m away: 10 a day, fewer than one an hour at morning peak; 2 from all stops within 500 m.
- Here (2022 census): 78% owner-occupied (council 70%); 8% of homes empty (council 22%); most built 1971–1980; 54% drive to work (council 62%); population up 23% since 2016.
- Around here the council decides in a median 55 days (about 8 weeks); 1 in 3 is asked for more information.
- Homes started within 1 km: 92 in the last year, 11 three years before.
- 4 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.
- Appeal (Appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála): The applicant, or anyone who commented in time, can appeal the council's decision within four weeks.
- Permission for work already done (Retention permission): An application to keep something that was built without permission.
- 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
| Source | Publisher | Licence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 9 Oct 2026 |
| data.nbco.gov.ie | National Building Control Office (BCMS) | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 Oct 2026 |
| data.gov.ie | Various (see each layer) | mixed — CC-BY-4.0 except OPW flood (CC… | 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 | https: | Local authorities (consultation portals) | public | 12 Oct 2026 |
| www2.courts.ie | — | all-rights-reserved | 12 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 | 5 Oct 2026 |
| data.epa.ie | Environmental Protection Agency (LEAP licence register) | CC-BY-4.0 | 5 Oct 2026 |
| transportforireland.ie | National Transport Authority | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 Oct 2026 |
| lda.ie | Land Development Agency | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 Sept 2026 |
| meetings.fingal.ie | Local authorities (council meetings) | public | 12 Oct 2026 |
| services.arcgis.com | Department of Housing (National Planning Application Database) | CC-BY-4.0 | 12 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) | PSI — PSRA re-use terms (psr.ie/re-use… | 12 Oct 2026 |
| services.arcgis.com | Local authorities (RZLT maps) | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 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 (Tusla statutory register; ackn… | 5 Oct 2026 |
| services.arcgis.com | Local authorities via the Department of Housing (GZT / MyPlan) | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 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 12 Oct 2026, 18:44 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.