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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2660309 - F.I. Request Letter 04/09/2026 Aoife Hamill & Gavin Corrigan C/O Darina Greenan Cremoyle Swanscross Monaghan Co. Monaghan H18 F205 Re: Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended). Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended). 26/60309 - permission to erect a bungalow, detached domestic garage, new site entrance, wastewater treatment system, percolation area and all ancillary site works at Lurgangreen Castleblayney Co.Monaghan. _______________________________________________________ Dear Sir/Madam, With reference to the above application, I am to inform you that the information submitted is not adequate to enable a decision to be made. In accordance with the provisions of Article 33 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) you are hereby requested to submit further information as set out on the attached page. Article 33(3) states that “where a requirement under sub-article (1) or sub-article (2) (Clarification) is not complied with within the period of 6 months from the date of the requirement for further information, or such additional period, not exceeding 3 months, as may be agreed by the Planning Authority, the planning application shall be declared to be withdrawn”. It should be noted that you will be required to give notice in an approved newspaper under article 35(1)(a) and erect a site notice in accordance with Article 35 (1)(b) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) if the further information received is considered to contain significant additional data. Please Note: 4 copies of Additional Information to be submitted. In the case of Significantly Different Information, 6 copies of additional information to be submitted. Yours faithfully, __________________________ ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER pp 26/60309 Aoife Hamill & Gavin Corrigan Lurgangreen, Castleblayney, Co.Monaghan ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 1. Section 15.9.6 and Policy RIDP 1 ‘Ribbon Development and Infill Development’ of Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031 do not permit dwellings in the countryside which would create or extend an existing ribbon of development; ribbon development being defined as being ‘five or more houses on any one side of a given 250 metres of road frontage’. The Planning Authority notes that this proposal will result in a 5th dwelling within a 250-metre frontage along the Local Primary Road. The applicant has failed to provide any information that would justify a relaxation of the ribbon development policy in this instance, as allowed for under Policy RIDP 1. Accordingly, the applicant is therefore requested to submit additional details to demonstrate compliance with the aforementioned policy RIDP 1 ‘Ribbon Development and Infill Development’. 2. The Applicant has submitted a Site Layout Plan with visibility splays of 100m demarcated; however onto a Local Primary Road, visibility splays of 70m x 2.4m x 1.05m are required in accordance with Section 15.23 of Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031. In this regard, the applicant is requested to submit: a) A revised Site Layout Plan (1:500 scale) indicating how a clear and unobstructed visibility splay of 70m can be achieved at the proposed entry/exit point onto the Local Primary Road. i. The required visibility splays should be provided from a point in the centre of the entrance, 2.4 metres from the road edge at a height of 1.05 metre to 2.0 metres above ground level. Sight distances to be measures to the nearest road edge in both directions. The submitted revised site layout plan should demonstrate all necessary site work, including the extent of the front boundary hedge and trees which would be required to be removed/trimmed, re-grading of side banks etc to achieve the required sight distances. ii. Where the sight distances are not achievable within the applicant’s ownership, the applicant should submit up-to-date Legal Agreements with adjoining landowners giving their consent to allow re-locating of obstruction impeding on the visibility splays, removal of their hedgerow and hedges trimmed regularly to provide the required sight distance. The Legal Agreement and accompanying Maps shall be signed by the landowner, the applicant and witnessed by a Solicitor in accordance with exact wording of Appendix 13 of Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031. iii. The revised site layout plan shown show the full extent of the 70m visibility splays in both directions. The planner dealing with this application is Catherine Toner