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Planning: Further Information Requested

  • 30-07-2025 05:55PM
    #1
    ryan1626
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    Hi,

    I am applying for planning permission on a site for a family member. I designed a 2 storey house in a rural area, where there is precedent for 2 storey newbuilds.

    However, the following Further Information has been requested by the local authority:

    "Applicant to submit revised drawings (including site layout, floor plans, elevations and cross-section) that demonstrate a dwelling that is single storey in character.

    Applicant is advised that the Planning Authority has concerns regarding the massing of the proposed dwelling at this rural and locally elevated site, where it would be visually obtrusive and would not integrate with the landscape. A revised design that is sympathetic to the host environment and reflective of the vernacular character of existing dwellings within the immediate vicinity of the application site is required.

    You are advised that failure to fully comply with this request within a period of 6 months will mean that your application will be deemed to have been withdrawn.

    "

    If I return a design that is, say, 1 and a half storeys (with a design and access statement as justification), is there any chance that could be outright refused and the application withdrawn given that I would not be complying with the request? Or is there back and forward with this process, whereby at worst the revised scheme would be rejected and I would have to submit a single storey design?

    I am very wary of not wanting my family member to have to begin a new planning application.

    Thanks for any advice

    Ryan



Comments

  • #2
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47,125 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    Unless you can provide them with an "acceptable response" within the 6 months the application will be deemed withdrawn.

    You have a couple of options regarding an "acceptable response". Submit revised drawings in compliance with their request and the job's done. Submitting anything else will have to be backed up with relevant statements, maps, photos etc and even then you could be looking at a refusal.

    In my experience I think you should discuss this matter further with the local planner and argue your case there and then come to some sort of compromise hopefully



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