Planning report · Wexford County Council · 500 m around the house · the last 12 months · 17 Oct 2026, 04:49

Bellefield, Enniscorthy Rural ED, The Municipal District of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Leinster, Éire / Ireland

52.51101, -6.57930

Homes here mostly date from the 2000s. 1 planning file on this house, the latest from 2025. Most home extensions nearby get approved (88%).

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Time

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Not held yet for Wexford County Council: council consultations.

The council's planning feed has nothing received after 21 Sept 2026: newer applications may be missing.

1planning file on this houselatest 2025 88%of home extensions approved nearbyn=75 · 1.5 km · 10 yrs 50 daystypical wait for a decisionmiddle half 45–53 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 50 days
4Appeal window4 weeks after the decision
5AppealAt An Coimisiún Pleanála
6PermissionLasts 5 years
7StartStart notice to the council. Here about 3 months after
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 2001–10, under planning permission and building regulations. 1 planning file on this house, the latest from 2025.

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

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

2025
20250647 · permission for development · refused 2025
approvedstarted?signed off?

On this site

Protected or listed · on the council's list

Vacant land tax · not on the map

1 in 10

Radon (EPA) · homes with high radon

Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail

No zoning in the plans we hold.

Radon1 in 10 homes have high radon (EPA)

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
Radon grid squares	1

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), EPA radon map, Residential Zoned Land Tax maps, Constraint layers (bundle) · fetched 12 Oct 2026, 00:14

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Development plan zoning (councils)	CC BY 4.0	11 Oct 2026, 23:18	open
EPA radon map	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 19:36	open
Residential Zoned Land Tax maps	CC BY 4.0	12 Oct 2026, 00:14	open
Constraint layers (bundle)	CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 19:37	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 17 Oct 2026, 02:05

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 01:09	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	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: 67% approved, and 1 in 2 is asked for more information.

New house in a garden or site27 decided · more info asked 41%

67% · council 75%

Approved nearbyWexford 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 · 27 nearby, 3,786 council-wide

Figure 3

Enniscorthy, file by file since 2016

21 of 22 decided extensions on the road were approved. New houses in side gardens or on sites: 6 of 6.

ApprovedRefusedWithdrawn or invalid

80 files with "Enniscorthy" 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 · 2016–2026

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 17 Oct 2026, 02:05

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	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 17 Oct 2026, 02:05

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	17 Oct 2026, 01:09	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	open

Question 3

How long, and what if someone objects?

Figure 4

A home extension's journey here

A decision takes 50 days. 1 in 5 is asked for more information, which adds about 72 days. Building starts about 3 months after permission.

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

Calculated75 decided home extensions, 12 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála

Figure 5

What appeals changed

3 of 3 appealed refusals became permissions. 5 of 9 appealed approvals were reversed.

Refusals appealed3 decided

3 became permissions

Approvals appealed9 decided

5 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

Question 4

What's changing around you?

Street map around Bellefield, Enniscorthy Rural ED, The Municipal District of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Leinster, Éire / Ireland with 2 numbered planning items — ⌖ the houseNo decision yetApproved

1Enniscorthy, Enniscorthy Rural 20260475No decision yet · 130 m
2Enniscorthy Rural, Enniscorthy 20260064Approved with conditions · 421 m

Figure 6

What happens to applications within 500 m

Permission isn't building. Of 45 permissions since 2016, 14 show a start notice and 11 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.

Measured50 applications in 10 years · NPAD, An Coimisiún Pleanála, BCMS start notices and completion certificates

Figure 7

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 8

Applications within 500 m, by year

Between 3 and 9 a year; busiest 2024. 88% 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 2 in the last 12 months

See every application on the map

1Enniscorthy, Enniscorthy Rural No decision yet
Permission for the retention of an attenuation tank in a relocated position
2026047520 Apr 2026130 m
2Enniscorthy Rural, Enniscorthy Approved with conditions
Permission for development for the proposed single storey biomass
2026006413 Mar 2026421 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 17 Oct 2026, 02:05

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	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	17 Oct 2026, 01:09	open

Building work nearby 1 in the last 12 months

1 not signed off

Milehouse Road, The Paddock, Wexford · 29 Jun 2026 · start notice not signed off · 20260064W · 361 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 17 Oct 2026, 01:09

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Building Control Management System (commencement notices)	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 01:09	open

Homes coming 0 not started

Greenville · 89 homes · building started · 251 m
Greenville · 83 homes · building started · 406 m
Enniscorthy · 81 homes · building started · 242 m
ENNISCORTHY · 52 homes · building started · 496 m
GREENVILLE · 48 homes · building started · 304 m
Enniscorthy · 33 homes · building started · 104 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 17 Oct 2026, 02:05

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	17 Oct 2026, 01:09	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	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
Little Treasures Crèche · Crèche	28 Nov 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
Ballymurn Montessori Ltd · Crèche	24 Mar 2026 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
Stepping Stones Early Years Centre · Crèche	12 Jan 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
First Steps Ferns Childcare · Crèche	30 Nov 2023 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
Carraig Briste · Crèche	15 May 2026 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
Smart Kidz · Crèche	24 Oct 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
Cot 2 Crayons · Crèche	1 Oct 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 m
Curracloe Community Playgroup Ltd · Crèche	8 Nov 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 619 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 Wexford County Council.

Homes approved

Here203

Council middle0

Homes started

Here362

Council middle2

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 17 Oct 2026, 02:05

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	17 Oct 2026, 01:09	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	open

Question 5

What's the area like?

Figure 9

This street block against the council

2% of homes built before 1971 (council 25%). 34% owner-occupied (council 70%).

Homes built before 1971

2% · council 25%

Homes built since 2001

72% · council 38%

Owner-occupied

34% · council 70%

Rented

60% · council 24%

Children under 15

30% · council 20%

Aged 65 and over

7% · council 17%

Households with 2+ cars

28% · council 46%

Work mainly from home

1% · council 10%

This small area (548 people)Wexford

MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 247045015

Bus

496 m

Enniscorthy Coll · 359, 368 · busiest stop within 500 m: 1 an hour at peak

Radon

1 in 10

homes here likely high (EPA). Test it

Nearest school

431 m

Enniscorthy Community College, 492 pupils

Schools, stops and the council

Schools

Enniscorthy Community College · postprimary · 492 pupils · 431 m
St Aidans Parish School · primary · 869 pupils · 857 m

Stops 22

Enniscorthy Coll · 359, 368 · 1/hour at peak · 496 m
Enniscorthy Coll · 359, 368 · 1/hour at peak · 497 m
Cluain Buí · 384 · 539 m
Bellefield · 368 · 0/hour at peak · 548 m
Bellefield · 368 · 0/hour at peak · 554 m
Cluain Buí · 384 · 0/hour at peak · 562 m
Marconi Park · 359 · 0/hour at peak · 651 m
Marconi Park · 359 · 0/hour at peak · 654 m

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

Enniscorthy Community College · 431 m+4.2% pupils (492)
St Aidans Parish School · 857 m+0.2% pupils (869)

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 17 Oct 2026, 02:12

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Public transport stops and routes (NTA GTFS)	CC BY 4.0	11 Oct 2026, 23:43	open
Department of Education school list	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 23:32	open
National Planning Application Database	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026, 02:05	open
Council consultation portals	Public	17 Oct 2026, 01:36	open
Council meetings (ModernGov)	Public	17 Oct 2026, 02:12	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

Permission for development (20250647) refused 2025: built anyway?
Ask for: The seller's answer and your surveyor's check.
Seller · solicitor
High radon area (1 in 10 homes): has it been tested?
Ask for: Radon test results.
Seller
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: Enniscorthy
Electoral division: Enniscorthy Rural
Electoral area: Enniscorthy
Council: Wexford County Council

Everything we found, as a list 8 lines

1 application on this site; latest 20250647, refused 2025.
Not protected; no vacant land tax; high radon area.
Nothing nearby looks set to change.
The council's planning feed has nothing received after 21 Sep 2026: newer applications may be missing.
Enniscorthy Coll (bus 359, 368) 496 m away: 10 a day, fewer than one an hour at morning peak.
Here (2022 census): 60% rent (council 24%); 3% of homes empty (council 16%); most built 2001–2010; 67% drive to work (council 65%); population up 9% since 2016.
Around here the council decides in a median 54 days (about 8 weeks); 1 in 3 is asked for more information.
Homes started within 1 km: 1 in the last year, 95 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 25

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	16 Oct 2026
data.nbco.gov.ie	National Building Control Office (BCMS)	CC BY 4.0	17 Oct 2026
data.gov.ie	Various (see each layer)	CC BY 4.0, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0	27 Sept 2026
gis.epa.ie	Environmental Protection Agency	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026
dlrcoco.citizenspace.com	Local authorities (consultation portals)	Public	17 Oct 2026
www2.courts.ie	—	© the publisher	17 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	12 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	17 Oct 2026
services.arcgis.com	Department of Housing (National Planning Application Database)	CC BY 4.0	17 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	17 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 register	14 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 17 Oct 2026, 04:49 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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