Planning permission granted to complete 14 houses in Palatine
Stock image of new houses one with a "sold" sign
DUNNEACE Construction Ltd has finally received planning permission from An Comisiún Pleanála to complete an estate of 14 houses in Palatine.
The company was originally granted permission for six three-bedroom semi-detached houses and eight four-bedroom semi-detached houses at Limegrove, Palatine on 19 June 2025. However, an appeal was swiftly lodged by two neighbouring residents, Susan Morris and Svitiana Snigur.
Sixty-seven houses were originally granted permission on the site in 2005, but only 29 houses were completed before the 2008 financial crisis. One field on the site has been subsequently zoned back to agricultural use.
The appellants argued that the planning application contained procedural errors and that it constituted ‘unacceptable piecemeal development’. They also submitted that two of the proposed houses would sit approximately three metres above their two houses, which would create ‘an overwhelming sense of visual dominance and an unacceptable loss of residential amenity’.
They said this would cast a ‘significant’ shadow over their private rear gardens and rooms, lead to a loss of privacy and create an ‘oppressive and overbearing effect’.
The planning inspector recommended that the planning application be refused because the proposed design would fail to integrate into the existing neighbourhood character and because it might interfere with public rights of way.
After a split vote, two to one, the commission decided not to follow the inspector’s recommendation because it did not agree that the design and layout of the development failed to meet the requirements of the development plan. It considered that the mature lime trees and bee orchids ( ) located in the open green area could be protected by imposing conditions on the planning permission.
