Planning report · Leitrim County Council · 500 m around the house · the last 12 months · 17 Oct 2026, 14:18

R207, Drumshanbo

54.04476, -8.04588

Homes here mostly date from the 2000s. 1 planning file on this house, the latest from 2020.

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Time

12 months 2 years 5 years

Not held yet for Leitrim County Council: council consultations.

1planning file on this houselatest 2020 50 daystypical wait for a decisionmiddle half 48–53 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 6 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 2021.

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

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

2021
2096 · new house · approved 2021 · ran out unbuilt
approvedstartedsigned off

On this site

Zoning · Existing residential

Protected or listed · on the council's list

Vacant land tax · not on the map

Zoning, protection, tax and flood: the detail

ZoningR2 · Existing residential

What it says

Existing Residential: To protect and enhance the established amenity of existing residential communities.

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.

leitrim county development plan 2023 2029 · 21 Mar 2023 – 20 Mar 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.

Licensed industrial sites within 1.0 km: Drumshanbo (704 m)

Vacant land taxNo not on the map

Flood riskNone mapped within 500 m

Within 500 m	Count	For example
Heritage inventory buildings	15	house; Conway

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 licensed facilities (LEAP), Residential Zoned Land Tax maps, Constraint layers (bundle), National Inventory of Architectural Heritage · fetched 12 Oct 2026, 23:31

Source	Licence	Fetched	Link
Development plan zoning (councils)	CC BY 4.0	11 Oct 2026, 23:18	open
EPA licensed facilities (LEAP)	CC BY 4.0	12 Oct 2026, 23:31	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
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage	CC BY 4.0	27 Sept 2026, 19:35	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: 90% approved, and 1 in 2 are asked for more information.

New house in a garden or site10 decided · more info asked 60%

90% · council 96%

Approved nearbyLeitrim 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 · 10 nearby, 369 council-wide

Extensions and refusals right beside you 1 within 250 m · 0 refused within 100 m

Extensions and refusals near you 1 extensions within 250 m · the last 12 months

1 approved

Kind	Applied	Approved	Refused
Single-storey rear	1	1	—

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 3

A home extension's journey here

A decision takes 50 days. Building starts about 6 months after permission.

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

Calculated26 decided home extensions, 11 start notices · within 1.5 km, 10 years · NPAD, BCMS, An Coimisiún Pleanála

Figure 4

What appeals changed

0 of 2 appealed approvals were reversed.

Approvals appealed2 decided

0 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 R207, Drumshanbo with 4 numbered planning items — ⌖ the houseApproved

116 Cnoc An Lúir, Drumshanbo 2560284Approved with conditions · 159 m
210 Corryard Wood, Drumshanbo 2660044Approved with conditions · 358 m
3Prospect House, Carricknabrack 2660057Approved with conditions · 427 m
4Blackrock, Drumshanbo 2660178Approved with conditions · 473 m

Figure 5

What happens to applications within 500 m

Permission isn't building. Of 29 permissions since 2016, 10 show a start notice and 3 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.

Measured29 applications in 10 years · NPAD, An Coimisiún Pleanála, BCMS start notices and completion certificates

Figure 6

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 7

Applications within 500 m, by year

Between 1 and 5 a year; busiest 2018. 100% 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

4Blackrock , Drumshanbo , Co. Leitrim Approved with conditions
1. To demolish 1no. existing outbuilding at the rear of existing dwellinghouse. 2. To raise the roof of…
26601783 Sept 2026473 m
3Prospect House , Carricknabrack , Drumshanbo Co. Leitrim Approved with conditions
1) Demolition of an existing two-story extension to the rear of the existing two-story domestic dwelling; 2)…
266005722 Apr 20261 homes427 m
210 Corryard Wood , Drumshanbo , Co. Leitrim Approved with conditions
construction of a detached single-storey domestic garage ancillary to the existing dwelling house, together…
26600448 Apr 2026358 m
116 Cnoc An Lúir , Drumshanbo , Co. Leitrim Approved with conditions
retain (a) 1 metal shed, (b) one single storey sunroom, and (c) one rear garden pergola structure
25602847 Jan 20261 homes159 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 5 in the last 12 months

1 not signed off4 no sign-off needed

Church Street, Drumshanbo, Leitrim, N41 A336 · 7 Sept 2026 · 1 homes · start notice, opted out no sign-off needed · 2660057 · 484 m
Main Street, Drumshanbo, Leitrim, N41 Y725 · 14 Apr 2026 · start notice not signed off · 23-C-05 · 465 m
2 Corryard Wood, Drumshanbo, Leitrim · 2 Apr 2026 · short notice no sign-off needed · 2560061 · 252 m
4 Corryard Wood, Drumshanbo, Leitrim, N41 K020 · 2 Apr 2026 · 1 homes · start notice, opted out no sign-off needed · 2560062 · 305 m
2 Corryard Wood, Drumshanbo, Leitrim, N41 AH63 · 30 Mar 2026 · 1 homes · start notice, opted out no sign-off needed · 2560061 · 253 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

Named places nearby: estate, schemes, crèches, schools

Named places estate, developments, inspections

Crèches and schools inspected

Name	Latest inspection	Distance
Drumshanbo Community Childcare Facilities CLG t/a Bo Peep Kidz · Crèche	27 Nov 2025 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	565 m
Childhood Days · Crèche	14 Mar 2024 · report · Tusla Early Years Inspectorate	approx. 940 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 About as busy as most of Leitrim County Council.

Homes approved

Here0

Council middle0

Homes started

Here10

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: 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 8

This street block against the council

39% of homes built before 1971 (council 27%). 74% owner-occupied (council 71%).

Homes built before 1971

39% · council 27%

Homes built since 2001

27% · council 40%

Owner-occupied

74% · council 71%

Rented

11% · council 23%

Children under 15

15% · council 20%

Aged 65 and over

22% · council 19%

Households with 2+ cars

40% · council 45%

Work mainly from home

6% · council 10%

This small area (199 people)Leitrim

MeasuredCSO Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics (CC BY 4.0) · small area 117035001

Bus

319 m

Drumshanbo BP · 449, 567, NG05 · busiest stop within 500 m: 1 an hour at peak

Nearest school

422 m

Drumshanbo Vocational School, 509 pupils

Schools, stops and the council

Schools

Drumshanbo Vocational School · postprimary · 509 pupils · 422 m
St Patricks Ns · primary · 243 pupils · 796 m

Stops 7

Drumshanbo BP · 449, 567, NG05 · 1/hour at peak · 319 m
Drumshanbo BP · 449, 567, NG05, UL06 · 1/hour at peak · 350 m
Drumshanbo · 462, 469 · 464 m
Drumshanbo · 462, 469 · 465 m
Drumshanbo · 567, 571, 572 · 2/hour at peak · 616 m
Acres Lake · 567 · 1/hour at peak · 729 m

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

Drumshanbo Vocational School · 421 m+9% pupils (509)
St Patricks Ns · 796 m-1.2% pupils (243) · a pitch or play area 2024, approved with conditions · 2 classrooms 2024, approved with conditions

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

New house (2096) ran out unbuilt in 2026: built anyway?
Ask for: If built: proof it started in time, and an opinion of compliance.
Seller · solicitor
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: Moneynure
Electoral division: Drumshanbo
Electoral area: Ballinamore-Lea-6
Council: Leitrim County Council

Everything we found, as a list 8 lines

1 application on this site; latest 2096, approved 2021, ran out unbuilt.
Zoned R2 (existing residential); not protected; no vacant land tax.
Nothing nearby looks set to change.
Drumshanbo BP (bus 449, 567) 350 m away: 1 an hour at morning peak.
Here (2022 census): 74% owner-occupied (council 71%); 19% of homes empty (council 24%); most built 2001–2010; 69% drive to work (council 66%); population up 18% since 2016.
1 home extension within 250 m since 2025.
The council decides in a median 53 days (about 8 weeks); 36% are asked for more information.
4 applications nearby in the last 12 months.

What the terms mean 6 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.
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	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
services-eu1.arcgis.com	National Inventory of Architectural Heritage	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
data.epa.ie	Environmental Protection Agency (LEAP licence register)	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, 14:18 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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