Apply for Large Residential Development (LRD) Planning Applications

The Planning Authority requires the prospective applicant to complete the LRD ‘Pre Application Consultation Form, to initiate a Section 247 consultation. 

Access LRD Pre Application Consultation Form

In addition, the Planning Authority welcomes the submission of design concepts, alternatives considered, details of the proposal and policy rationale as part of the pre planning submission. No fee is required to be paid to the Local Authority at this stage.

Dublin City Council is required to schedule a meeting with the applicant within 4 weeks from receipt of the pre-application consultation request. A pre-application consultation can only be arranged with a person with sufficient legal interest in the land concerned and only with respect to a specific development proposal.

The applicant after completing the S247 consultation stage can request an LRD meeting in accordance with section 32(B) of Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Act 2021.

Following the receipt of LRD consultation request, the Planning Authority is required to facilitate a consultation meeting with the applicant within 4 weeks of the date receipt of such a request.

Please note that a request for a LRD Meeting shall be in on the LRD Form-18-Large-Scale-Residential-Development and be accompanied by the appropriate fee and include where appropriate and to the extent possible. The information set out below.

Access LRD Form 18 – to make a request to a Planning Authority to enter into a consultation.

The application form above is to be submitted through the Planning Department. Two hard copies must be submitted with the application.

Documentation to support the application: 

(a) a site location map sufficient to identify the land on which the proposed development would be situated,

(b) a brief description of the nature and purpose of the proposed development and of its possible effects on the environment,

(c) a draft layout plan of the proposed development,

(d) a brief description of any proposals to provide for water services infrastructure, including, in the case where it is proposed to connect the proposed development to a public water or wastewater network or both, evidence that Uisce Éireann has confirmed that it is feasible to provide the appropriate service or services and that the relevant network or networks have the capacity to service the proposed development,

(e) details of any consultations that have taken place with prescribed bodies or the public,

(f) such other information, drawings or representations as the prospective LRD applicant may wish to provide or make available,

(g) a statement setting out how the proposed LRD has had regard to the relevant objectives of the development plan or local area plan in whose area or areas the proposed LRD would be situated, and

(h) a brief description of the proposed numbers and types of houses or numbers of student accommodation units and bedspaces, or both, as appropriate, and their design, including proposed gross floor spaces, internal floor areas and principal dimensions, housing density, plot ratio, site coverage, building heights, proposed layout and aspect.

(i) a brief description of proposed public and private open space provision, landscaping, play facilities, pedestrian permeability, vehicular access and parking provision, where relevant.

(j) a brief description of the proposed provision of ancillary services, where required, including childcare facilities.

(k) where relevant, any other proposed use in the development, the zoning of which facilitates such use, including the proposed gross floor space for each such use.

(l) a brief description of any proposals to address or, where relevant, integrate the proposed development with surrounding land uses.

(m) a description of the capacity of existing or planned infrastructure to serve the proposed development, of the impact of the proposed development on existing /planned infrastructure and of any proposals to provide for other services infrastructure (including cabling such as broadband provision) and any phasing proposals.

(n) a brief description of proposals under Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, where relevant.

(o) details of protected structures, national monuments or other monuments included in the Record of Monuments and Places, where relevant.

(p) details of traffic and transport assessment where relevant and of traffic, cycle and pedestrian safety.

(q) details relating to residential amenity including the assessment of sunlight, daylight, shadow, overlooking and overbearance, where relevant; for existing properties and proposed residential units.

(r) flood risk, risk of major accident and ecological impacts.

(s) where the prospective applicant is not the owner of the land concerned, the written consent of the owner to make an application under section 34 of the Act in respect of that land.

A meeting is arranged within 4 weeks of the application, and an Opinion document is issued within 4 weeks of the meeting by the planning authority. This LRD Opinion is valid for 6 months.

Planning application stage

The LRD planning application must be submitted within 6 months of the Opinion being issued. Planning Application for an LRD should be made on the Council’s Planning Application Form, accompanied by all documents on the planning checklist and by an additional ‘Form 19’.(Form to be included with an application for permission for a Large-scale Residential Development).  

• Access Form 19 – LRD
• Planning Application Form
• Planning Check List 

The developer must make the application documentation available for public viewing on a dedicated website set up for this purpose, this is for the purpose of enhancing transparency and public participation in the LRD process.

Once an LRD planning application is submitted to the planning authority, members of the public, prescribed bodies and elected local authority members will be able to make submissions on a proposed development to the planning authority in the same manner as currently applies in respect of standard section 34 planning applications submitted to the planning authority.