Planning report · Galway City Council · 500 m around the house · the last 12 months · 15 Oct 2026, 20:05
25 Dangan Heights, Dangan
53.28995, -9.08024
Homes here mostly date from the 1980s. 2 planning files on this house, the latest from 2019. Most home extensions nearby get approved (85%).
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 201985%of home extensions approved nearbyn=113 · 1.5 km · 10 yrs53 daystypical wait for a decisionmiddle half 49–550open 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 53 days
- 4Appeal window4 weeks after the decision
- 5AppealAt An Coimisiún Pleanála
- 6PermissionLasts 5 years
- 7StartStart notice to the council. Here about 7 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 1981–90, after planning permission began and before building regulations (1992). 2 planning files on this house, the latest from 2019.
Each line is a rule that applies to work done after it.
MeasuredEstimatecouncil register via NPAD · build years: CSO Census 2022, small area
- 20191917 · extension · approved 2019 · started, no sign-off neededapprovedstartedsigned off?
- 2019194 · work already done · approved 2019 · work already doneapprovedstartedsigned off?
On this site
R3
Zoning · Rural cluster
No
Protected or listed · on the council's list
Yes
Vacant land tax · 3% of land value a year
Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail
ZoningR3 · Rural cluster
What it says
Residential: To provide residential development and for associated support development, which will ensure the protection of existing residential amenity and will contribute to sustainable residential neighbourhoods
A small rural settlement where only modest infill serving local need is envisaged.
galway city development plan 2023 2029 · 4 Jan 2023 – 4 Jan 2029
ZoningR3 · Rural cluster
What it says
Residential: To provide residential development and for associated support development, which will ensure the protection of existing residential amenity and will contribute to sustainable residential neighbourhoods
A small rural settlement where only modest infill serving local need is envisaged.
galway city development plan 2023 2029 variations 1 2 3 · 4 Jan 2023 – 4 Jan 2029
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 taxYes 3% of the land's value a year
Flood riskNone mapped within 500 m
| Within 500 m | Count | For example |
|---|---|---|
| Monuments | 7 | Barrow - unclassified; Ringfort - unclassified |
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: 30 on the draft 2027 map; 30 on the final 2026 map.
Sources: zoning, rzlt, constraints, constraints.smr · fetched 11 Oct 2026, 23:18
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| zoning | CC-BY-4.0 | 11 Oct 2026, 23:18 | 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.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 here: 71–100% by type. A new house in a garden is harder: 88% approved, and 1 in 3 is asked for more information.
Single-storey rear24 decided · more info asked 25%
71% · council 94%
Attic or dormer13 decided · more info asked 38%
100% · council 89%
New house in a garden or site60 decided · more info asked 33%
88% · council 85%
Approved nearbyGalway 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 · 97 nearby, 645 council-wide
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 53 days. 1 in 4 is asked for more information, which adds about 61 days. Building starts about 7 months after permission.
Bars are medians; whiskers show the middle half. Medians of separate steps don't add up exactly.
Calculated113 decided home extensions, 16 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála
What appeals changed
10 of 19 appealed refusals became permissions. 1 of 15 appealed approvals were reversed.
Refusals appealed19 decided
10 became permissions
Approvals appealed15 decided
1 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
What's changing around you?
- 12 Dangan Court, Newcastle 2660307
- 20.4 ha zoned for homes
- 30.9 ha zoned for homes
- 43.0 ha zoned for homes
- 50.4 ha zoned for homes
- 61.8 ha zoned for homes
- 70.4 ha zoned for homes
- 8Site A, Circular Road 2660169
- 9Site B, Circular Road 2660164
- 1016 Dún Daingean, Newcastle 2660042
- 11SPAR The Westwood, Upper Newcastle 2660104
- 12No 7 Cuirt Cherin, Circular Road 2660101
What happens to applications within 500 m
Permission isn't building. Of 50 permissions since 2016, 4 show a start notice and 0 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.
Measured57 applications in 10 years · NPAD, An Coimisiún Pleanála, BCMS start notices and completion certificates
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
Sites that could change 10 within 500 m
Empty land zoned for homes 10
- 20.4 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 11 m
- 30.9 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 41 m
- 43.0 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 45 m
- 50.4 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 80 m
- 61.8 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 88 m
- 70.4 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 121 m
- 0.5 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 132 m
- 0.2 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 160 m
- 0.6 ha zoned for homes · no homes built on it yet · 176 m
- 0.5 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 2 and 12 a year; busiest 2019. 84% 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 7 in the last 12 months
See every application on the map
- 12 Dangan Court , Newcastle , Co.Galway RefusedPermission for development which consists of: The demolition of an existing single-storey side porch attached…
- 2 Dangan Court , Newcastle , Co.Galway Withdrawn or not validPermission for development which consists of: the demolition of an existing single-storey side porch attached…
- 8Site A , Circular Road , Galway Approved with conditionsPermission for development which consists of: for changes to proposed plans, previously granted under Pl.…
- 9Site B , Circular Road , Galway Approved with conditionsPermission for development which consists of: for changes to proposed plans, previously granted under Pl.…
- 11SPAR The Westwood , Upper Newcastle , Galway Approved with conditionsPermission for development which consists of: the proposed development will consist of revisions to the…
- 12No 7 Cuirt Cherin , Circular Road , Galway Approved with conditionsPermission for development which consists of; subdivision of residential site to construct two detached…
- 1016 Dún Daingean , Newcastle , Galway Approved with conditionsPermission for development which consists of: the construction of new single storey extension to side and…
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.
Building work nearby 2 in the last 12 months
- 23 Dún Daingean, Galway · 23 Jun 2026 · 8 homes · start notice not signed off · 21/359 · 209 m
- 2 Ashdown, Circular Road, Galway · 22 May 2026 · 1 homes · start notice, opted out no sign-off needed · 2560230 · 290 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: bcms · fetched 15 Oct 2026, 00:44
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcms | CC-BY-4.0 | 15 Oct 2026, 00:44 | open |
Homes coming 0 not started
- Westwood Hotel Site · 394 homes · ran out · runs out 3 Sept 2023 · 369 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).
Named places nearby: estate, schemes, crèches, schools
Named places estate, developments, inspections
Estate: Dangan Heights · 15 applications in 10 years · 75% approved · most common: two-storey rear
Crèches and schools inspected
| Name | Latest inspection | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Bushy Park Pre- School · Crèche | 14 May 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate | 271 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: estates, schools, tusla_ey · fetched 27 Sept 2026, 20:18
| Source | Licence | Fetched | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| estates | ODbL-1.0 (OSM) + CC-BY-SA-4.0 (NHDS) + CC-BY-4.0 (Kildare) | 27 Sept 2026, 20:18 | open |
| schools | CC-BY-4.0 | 27 Sept 2026, 23:32 | open |
| tusla_ey | public (Tusla statutory register; acknowledgement required, no open licence stated) | 14 Oct 2026, 23:20 | open |
How busy is this area About as busy as most of Galway City Council.
Homes approved
Here13
Council middle0
Homes started
Here28
Council middle32
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
1% of homes built before 1971 (council 17%). 63% owner-occupied (council 46%).
Homes built before 1971
1% · council 17%
Homes built since 2001
3% · council 31%
Owner-occupied
63% · council 46%
Rented
32% · council 47%
Children under 15
11% · council 15%
Aged 65 and over
20% · council 13%
Households with 2+ cars
37% · council 29%
Work mainly from home
13% · council 11%
This small area (309 people)Galway
MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 068006011
Road noise
45–49 dB
day–night average (EPA 2022)
Bus
403 m
Tudor Lawn · 404, 809 · busiest stop within 500 m: 2 an hour at peak
Nearest school
199 m
Bushy Park NS, 366 pupils
Schools, stops and the council
Schools
- Bushy Park NS · primary · 366 pupils · 199 m
- Galway Educate Together NS · primary · 373 pupils · 914 m
- St Josephs Special Sch · primary · 80 pupils · 922 m
Stops 12
- Tudor Lawn · 404, 809 · 2/hour at peak · 403 m
- Tudor Lawn · 404 · 2/hour at peak · 424 m
- Hazel Park · 404 · 2/hour at peak · 624 m
- Corrib Village · 964 · 680 m
- Hazel Park · 404 · 2/hour at peak · 743 m
- Corrib Village · 404, 809 · 2/hour at peak · 758 m
Schools growing or shrinking planning in 3 years · pupils last year
- Bushy Park NS · 199 m-1.9% pupils (366)
- Galway Educate Together NS · 914 m-2.1% pupils (373) · an extension 2025, approved with conditions
- St Josephs Special Sch · 922 m-1.2% pupils (80) · an extension 2025, approved with conditions
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 | 15 Oct 2026, 02:04 | open |
| consult | public | 15 Oct 2026, 01:32 | open |
| moderngov | public | 15 Oct 2026, 01:32 | 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
- Extension (1917) built without official sign-off: built properly?Seller · solicitorAsk for: An engineer's opinion of compliance.
- Work already done (194): 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
- Electoral division
- Dangan
- Electoral area
- Galway City Central
- Council
- Galway City Council
Everything we found, as a list 8 lines
- 2 applications on this site; latest 1917, approved 2019, started, no sign-off needed.
- Zoned R3 (rural cluster); not protected; on the vacant land tax map.
- 10 sites nearby could change: 10 empty zoned plots.
- Tudor Lawn (bus 404, 809) 403 m away: 2 an hour at morning peak; 4 from all stops within 500 m.
- Noise from road traffic mapped at 45–49 dB (day-evening-night average, EPA 2022).
- Here (2022 census): 63% owner-occupied (council 46%); 4% of homes empty (council 10%); most built 1981–1990; 52% drive to work (council 47%); population up 12% since 2016.
- The council decides in a median 55 days (about 8 weeks); 1 in 4 is asked for more information.
- Homes started within 1 km: 11 in the last year, 38 three years before.
What the terms mean 8 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.
- 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 26
| 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 | 14 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 Monuments Service (SMR) | CC-BY-4.0 | 27 Sept 2026 |
| dlrcoco.citizenspace.com | https: | Local authorities (consultation portals) | public | 15 Oct 2026 |
| www2.courts.ie | — | all-rights-reserved | 15 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 |
| overpass-api.de | OpenStreetMap contributors, NHDS, Kildare County Council | ODbL-1.0 (OSM) + CC-BY-SA-4.0 (NHDS) +… | 27 Sept 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 | 15 Oct 2026 |
| services.arcgis.com | Department of Housing (National Planning Application Database) | CC-BY-4.0 | 15 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… | 15 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… | 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 15 Oct 2026, 20:05 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.