Blessington ED, The Municipal District of Baltinglass, County Wicklow, Leinster, Éire / Ireland

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No observation, appeal or consultation window is open within 500 m today.

Where this is

Zoning evaluated against the point

No zoning objective covers this site in the current plan (or the plan is not loaded for this county).

Designations and constraints within 500 m

No OPW CFRAM/NIFM flood extent within 500 m.

Residential Zoned Land Tax

This site is not on the current draft or final RZLT map.

Planning applications 5 in 5 years within 500 m

Recent decisions and applications

• Solas Obseravtory , Athdown , Blessington N/a
  Changing the use of the utility building to a single rural dwelling.This involves changing the use of the PC/computer room and the Office into two bedrooms. The Utility room that already has kitchen facilities would become the kitchen and living room. No other changes are needed or works needed.The Office and Computer / PC room were needed before the connection of the observatory to the national broadband fibre network. Now their functions can be carried out remotely. Albeit it needs somebody on-site to physically turn on the telescope and to turn the dome in the observatory. It is hoped that these will become automated in time.The change of use is required because there is an existential risk to the development. There have been multiple security incidents, breaks-ins and trespass on-site, all were reported to the Gardai. They recommended security cameras be installed, but these were subsequently vandalised.It is considered that the site is now known to problematic individuals and that the only solution to the current perils is to have somebody living on site. A change of use might be considered urgent.The development is uninsured due to the unreasonable cost of insurance. If there was somebody living on site, insurance would be available at a reasonable cost. The change of use is also to broaden the usage of the observatory. Having somebody on-site would greatly increase the use of the observatory and it would facilitate broadening its usage to education and community outreach. In particular, the plan would be to have astronomy nights for parents and children in the local school, eventually expanding to other schools in Wicklow and further afield. Further details are given on Form B in the attachments
  2360197received 3 Aug 2023489 m away
• Solas Obseravtory , Athdown , Blessington N/a
  a change of use of the utility building into a single rural dwelling to facilitate broadening use of the observatory onsite from research usage to research, education and community outreach usage
  2360105received 22 Jun 2023490 m away
• Solas Observatory , Athdown , Blessington N/a
  the development will consist of a change of use of the utility building into a single rural dwelling to facilitate broadening use of the observatory onsite from research usage to research, education and community outreach usage. This is to enable broader access to the astronomical observatory, in particular for school children locally, in County Wicklow, and further afield. The change of use is also primarily to improve security on site following many and various security incidents on site that threaten the existential presence of the observatory. The change of use would result in having somebody on site that would make it possible to obtain adequate insurance for the property to make its existence sustainable
  2360082received 1 Jun 2023489 m away
• Ballynabrocky Manor , Blessington , Co. Wicklow Conditional
  Retention for a single storey bedroom and bathroom extension which measures 33sq. metres which is located to the northern side of an existing building which already stands on the land and for the retention of the use of this overall structure, whose original section already accommodates a combined kitchen and living room (with boiler adjacent), for tourist and other short-stay accommodation purposes, of up to three months in duration. Permission is also sought for the retention of a well and a secondary sewage treatment system which serves both the existing year-round home on the land and this tourist/short-stay facility and for the provision of a new polishing filter and the use of the garden and parking areas within this site by resident guests
  22668received 15 Jun 2022decided 20 Feb 2023173 m away
• Ballynabrocky , Manor Kilbride , Co. Wicklow Conditional
  (1) An extension to existing agricultural shed consisting of a slatted area with feed passage and cattle handling facilities and a dungsted. (2) A Calf shed with a slatted area along and silage storage. (3) A hayshed and workshop area along a concrete yard and all associated site works
  211309received 1 Nov 2021decided 17 Dec 20210 m away

`description` is truncated at source (80 chars for DLR, 70 for Fingal) and `applicant` is null nationally — NPAD publishes neither in full.

Appeals 0 in 5 years within 500 m

No appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála within 500 m in 5 years.

Commencement notices 0 in 3 years within 500 m

No commencement notice lodged with the Building Control Management System nearby.

One notice can cover many buildings — count notices, never building rows, or a single multi-unit scheme reads as a trend (T11).

Sales 0 in 36 months within 500 m

No Property Price Register sale geocoded within 500 m in 36 months.

Consultations 0 matched by place

No open council consultation covers this place.

Council items 0 in 24 months

No committee item is geolinked to this place. Council minutes are linked at county or electoral-area level, so this is usually empty for a single house.

Capacity and public land

No publishable utility-capacity record within the radius.

No site on the LDA register of relevant public lands within 500 m.

Schools and public transport within 1.0 km

Sources used in this report

Generated 14 Sept 2026, 12:38 from the Planning Register store. Nothing on this page was fetched live: every figure was already in the store with the fetch time shown. Deadlines are derived from published receipt and decision dates under the Planning and Development Act 2000; confirm with the planning authority before relying on them.

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