# Bellpark, Co. Wicklow: townland, land parcels and planning Townland in the civil parish of Dunganstown, barony of Arklow, Co. Wicklow; in Irish Bellpark. - Area (Tailte Éireann): 477,268 m² (47.73 ha, 117.94 acres) - Land parcels (Tailte Éireann): 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in it, median 238,634 m² (23.86 ha, 58.97 acres) - Zoning (national zoning, MyPlan): not in a zoned settlement - Planning (National Planning Applications): 7 applications since 2010 - Civil parish: Dunganstown, https://everytownland.com/wicklow/parish/dunganstown.md - Barony: Arklow - Electoral division: Dunganstown South, the unit of the census - Census 2022 (Central Statistics Office): 954 people lived in 320 households in the Dunganstown South electoral division. 78% of households owned their home. 36% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 27% were holiday homes. - County: Co. Wicklow, https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md - Placenames Database of Ireland: https://www.logainm.ie/en/55381 - Townland number at Tailte Éireann: 250367 - Centre: latitude 52.882636, longitude -6.083302 (WGS 84) ## Land parcels (registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann) 2 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Bellpark, from 4,069 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres) to 473,200 m² (47.32 ha, 116.93 acres); 18 neighbouring parcels touch its boundary. Largest first: - Parcel 1278731: 473,200 m² (47.32 ha, 116.93 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/1278731.md - Parcel 4355045: 4,069 m² (0.41 ha, 1.01 acres), https://everytownland.com/parcel/4355045.md ## Zoning (national zoning of development plans, MyPlan) No zone of a development plan covers Bellpark in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application. ## Planning applications whose site touches the townland (National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage) 7 applications, newest first. - 20 Mar 2025, Wicklow County Council 2560195: Conditional. Permission. the cottage known formerly as Tophers was granted permission for retention and extension of the property as a dwelling and relocation of the entrance to a safer location and upgrading of the waste water treatment facilities by reference to planning ref 17/909. This permitted development was substantially undertaken but not fully completed. Permission is now sought for (i) Planning permission for the conversion regeneration and redevelopment of the existing cottage (ii) removal of existing poor quality single storey extensions to side and rear (iii) construction of new 1 and part 2 storey residential extension to the rear and side (iv) boundary treatment and landscaping (v) all ancillary site development works, services infrastructure and landscaping. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2560195/0 - 11 Sept 2024, Wicklow County Council 2460547: Refused. Permission. (1) a 94.00 m2 single storey dwelling, (2) 3 No. 100 m2 Hydroponic Grow Houses (3) a waste-water treatment unit and its associated percolation area, all to EPA standards, (4) a revised site entrance and (5) all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/2460547/0 - 31 Aug 2018, Wicklow County Council 18975: N/a. Permission. 1) alterations and extensions to existing building 2) all associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18975/0 - 14 Aug 2018, Wicklow County Council 18922: N/a. Retention. revised layout to rear of building retention which was granted under 17/909 which consisted of the following: retention of change of use of commercial building from commercial use to residential use, retention of extensions and alterations to the commercial building and the use of such extension for residential use together with permission to relocate existing site entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards, all together with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/18922/0 - 26 Jul 2017, Wicklow County Council 17909: Conditional. Retention, 1 home. existing residential use of dwelling (formally commercial use) together with miscellaneous alterations, together with permission to relocate existing site entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards all together with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17909/0 - 20 Jul 2017, Wicklow County Council 17885: N/a. Retention, 1 home. existing residential use of dwelling (formally commercial use) together with miscellaneous alterations, together with permission to relocate existing site entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards, all together with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17885/0 - 4 Jul 2017, Wicklow County Council 17808: N/a. Retention. existing residential use of dwelling (formally commercial use) together with miscellaneous alterations, together with permission to relocate existing side entrance to a safer location to the east. Permission is also sought for the replacement of the existing septic tank to dwelling and upgrade of same to current EPA standards, all together with associated site works. File: https://www.eplanning.ie/WicklowCC/AppFileRefDetails/17808/0 Applicants are not shown. ## Designated sites (National Parks and Wildlife Service) No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Bellpark. ## Recorded monuments (Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service) No recorded monument lies in the townland of Bellpark. ## Architectural heritage (National Inventory of Architectural Heritage) No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Bellpark. ## Ground and risks (Radon Risk Map of Ireland, EPA; Landslide Susceptibility Classification and LiDAR, Geological Survey Ireland) - Radon: About 1 in 20 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home: https://www.epa.ie/environment-and-you/radon/radon-testing/#d.en.82887 - Landslides: The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, low (inferred). - Terrain model: no LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Bellpark. - Flooding: the flood maps of the Office of Public Works, https://www.floodinfo.ie/map/floodmaps/, linked only: their licence does not allow re-use. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. ## Downloads - DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, for a drawing program: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bellpark.dxf - GeoJSON, in WGS 84, for a map: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bellpark.geojson - KML, for Google Earth: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bellpark.kml ## Homes sold (Residential Property Price Register) No address of the register names Bellpark with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow: https://everytownland.com/wicklow.md ## Neighbouring townlands (National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann) - Ballinaclea: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballinaclea.md - Ballynapark: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballynapark.md - Ballysallagh East: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/ballysallagh-east.md - Bonagrew Little: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bonagrew-little.md - Tonlegee: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/tonlegee.md A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony. --- Everytownland reads the registered freehold land and the statutory boundaries of Tailte Éireann, the national zoning, planning file and heritage records of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, and the Residential Property Price Register. A parcel is the land of a title, not an address. The owner's name is in the Land Registry of Tailte Éireann: a copy of the folio can be ordered on landdirect.ie, for a fee; this site names no owner. A price is the price recorded for a past sale, not a valuation. Sources: Cadastral Parcels Freehold, Townlands, Civil Parishes, Baronies, Electoral Divisions and Buildings, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0; national zoning of development plans (GZT, MyPlan) and National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0, applicants not shown; designated sites, National Parks and Wildlife Service, CC BY 4.0; Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service, CC BY 4.0; National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, CC BY 4.0; Residential Property Price Register, Property Services Regulatory Authority, re-used with the source acknowledged. - Page: https://everytownland.com/wicklow/bellpark - In JSON: https://everytownland.com/api/townland/wicklow/bellpark