21513: Retention permission for an unauthorised mobile home used for storage/recreational area ancillary to the existing dwelling, connection to services, and all associated site works
Bennekerry, Tullow Road, Co. Carlow
DecisionRefused
Decided21 February 2022
Application typeRETENTION
Source documents2
Site
What is on file
3refusal reasons0conditions8nearby records
Decision details
Core application dates and identifiers from the public planning record.Planning analysis
Refusal reasons and planning conditions extracted from the public decision file.Refusal reasons
Residential Amenity
Mobile home is a detached residential unit in the rear garden, failing CDP requirements for ancillary family accommodation which must not be a separate detached unit.
Section 11.6.1, Carlow County Development Plan 2015-2021The development comprises a detached residential unit (mobile home) located in the rear garden of the original dwelling on the site, which is contrary to the requirements Section 11.6.1.
Residential Amenity
Backland location and haphazard form of development conflict with the established pattern of detached dwellings and adversely affect adjoining residential amenity.
Carlow County Development Plan 2015-2021disorderly, non-integrated, piecemeal and haphazard form of development... would adversely affect the residential amenity of the existing adjoining residential properties
Ecology
Site is proximate to a designated SAC; absence of an appropriate assessment screening report means ecological impacts on the SAC cannot be ruled out.
River Barrow and River Nore SAC (Natura 2000)In the absence of an appropriate assessment screening report... the Planning Authority is not satisfied that the applicant has demonstrated that the proposed development, would not give rise to ecological impacts and would not significantly affect the SAC
Conditions
No conditions
No conditions are on record for this application yet.
Source documents
Original council portal records and source PDFs where available.Nearby precedent
Similar nearby applications linked to this planning decision.- 2460342The relocation of 2 number piers and gates from Bennekerry Gate Lodge within the grounds of Bennekerry House, to form part of a new entrance ( for Bennekerry House) constructed under Planning Reference Number 22/311 and all associated site works within the curtilage of Bennekerry Gate Lodge, ( Protected Structure RPS CW174) at Bennekerry House ( Protected Structure RPS NO. CW173, NIAH No10300729) / 0.8 km away / 13 December 2024Refused
- 19494Single storey dwelling with first floor mezzanine area (including a two bedroom independent living unit), new wastewater treatment system and percolation area, new bored well, new entrance and all associated site works / 1.4 km away / 20 February 2020Refused
- 2560254New private dwelling with garage, site entrance and all associated site works / 1.5 km away / 20 October 2025Refused
- 18480To construct a single storey industrial unit with offices and workshop (on previously granted fully serviced site, planning ref 04/467), associated parking and hardstand area, front and rear entrance, perimeter fencing and wall, connection to all existing services onsite and associated site works / 1.5 km away / 28 November 2019Refused
- 19493Erection of a two storey dwelling house, private well, onsite waste water treatment system, percolation area and all associate site and landscaping works / 1.7 km away / 18 February 2020Refused
- 22133For the subdivision of an existing site, the construction of a new two storey dwelling to be accessed by exiting entrance which will become a shared entrance, conection to services, new boundary treatments and all associated site works / 2.0 km away / 03 June 2022Refused
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- 21414Erection of a single storey house and planning permission to install a waste water treatment system and all ancillary site works / 2.1 km away / 16 December 2021Refused