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CSO statistical release, 13 September 2016, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 2 2016

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 2 2015	2,637	473	3,110
Quarter 2 2016	2,340	801	3,141
% change	-11.3%	69.3%	1.0%

Dwelling units approved up 1.0% in year

Number of Dwelling Units approved classified by type of unit, Q42014 - Q22016

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In the second quarter of 2016, planning permissions were granted for 3,141 dwelling units, compared with 3,110 units for the same period in 2015, an increase of 1.0%.

The second quarter figures also show that:

Planning Permissions were granted for 2,340 houses in the second quarter of 2016 and 2,637 in the second quarter of 2015, a decrease of 11.3%.
Planning permissions were granted for 801 apartment units, compared with 473 units for the same period in 2015, an increase of 69.3%.
One-off houses accounted for 31.5% of all new dwelling units granted planning permission in this quarter. See Table 4.
The total number of planning permissions granted for all developments was 5,236. This compares with 4,047 in the second quarter of 2015, an increase of 29.4%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 1,245 thousand square metres in the second quarter of 2016. Of this, 44.5% was for new dwellings, 36.9% for other new constructions and 18.6% for extensions. The total floor area planned increased by 16.9% in comparison with the same quarter in 2015. See Table 1.
Planning Permissions for new buildings for Agriculture increased to 510 this quarter. This compares to 196 permissions in the same quarter of 2015. See Table 3(a).

X-axis label	Planning Permissions Civil	Planning Permissions Non-Res	Planning Permissions Dwellings
2011	689	3655	10586
2012	821	3794	8569
2013	806	3440	8204
2014	1232	3498	9072
2015	1519	4085	9845

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Table A Summary of Planning Permissions granted for new Dwelling Units

Period		All Houses	Annual % change	of which Multi-Development Houses	Annual % change	of which One-off houses	Annual % change	Apartments	Annual % change	Total Dwellings *(All Houses & Apartments)*	Annual % change

2014	Q1	1,446	-22%	672	-38%	774	0%	158	-65%	1,604	-31%
	Q2	1,492	-0%	740	-9%	752	10%	114	-73%	1,606	-17%
	Q3	1,783	42%	962	122%	821	0%	361	130%	2,144	52%
	Q4	1,905	37%	1,156	53%	749	17%	152	-6%	2,057	32%
	Year	6,626	10%	3,530	14%	3,096	6%	785	-34%	7,411	3%

2015	Q1	2,514	74%	1,606	139%	908	17%	699	342%	3,213	100%
	Q2	2,637	77%	1,816	145%	821	9%	473	315%	3,110	94%
	Q3	2,345	32%	1,395	45%	950	16%	359	-1%	2,704	26%
	Q4	2,754	45%	1,841	59%	913	22%	1,263	731%	4,017	95%
	Year	10,250	55%	6,658	89%	3,592	16%	2,794	256%	13,044	76%

2016	Q1	2,534	1%	1,556	-3%	978	8%	557	-20%	3,091	-4%
	Q2	2,340	-11%	1,350	-26%	990	21%	801	69%	3,141	1%

Note: Percentages are rounded for tabular purposes

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2008 - Q2 2016

		Number of Permissions					Total Floor Area (000 sq.m )¹
		New Construction		Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	New Construction		Extension	Total
Period		Dwellings	Other	Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	Dwellings	Other	Extension	Total

2008	Q 1	4,777	2,104	3,523	651	11,055	2,645	1,359	509	4,514
	Q 2	4,722	2,050	3,743	700	11,215	2,901	1,425	444	4,770
	Q 3	4,253	1,774	4,166	711	10,904	2,263	1,265	470	3,998
	Q 4	3,739	1,616	3,003	619	8,977	2,028	1,102	387	3,517
	Year	17,491	7,544	14,435	2,681	42,151	9,837	5,151	1,810	16,799

2009	Q 1	3,275	1,231	2,499	481	7,486	2,090	870	459	3,419
	Q 2	2,689	1,158	2,405	504	6,756	1,753	872	281	2,906
	Q 3	2,505	1,218	2,433	499	6,655	1,273	915	278	2,466
	Q 4	1,911	908	1,885	433	5,137	812	408	179	1,399
	Year	10,380	4,515	9,222	1,917	26,034	5,928	3,065	1,197	10,190

2010	Q 1	1,768	775	1,617	359	4,519	844	303	181	1,328
	Q 2	1,513	772	1,996	394	4,675	776	553	232	1,561
	Q 3	1,634	866	2,319	453	5,272	727	415	271	1,412
	Q 4	1,432	792	1,778	371	4,373	514	254	186	955
	Year	6,347	3,205	7,710	1,577	18,839	2,861	1,525	870	5,256

2011	Q 1	1,277	700	1,637	405	4,019	599	376	202	1,177
	Q 2	1,264	721	1,866	393	4,244	560	452	209	1,222
	Q 3	1,271	862	1,896	417	4,446	465	288	216	969
	Q 4	955	681	1,312	335	3,283	357	214	137	708
	Year	4,767	2,964	6,711	1,550	15,992	1,982	1,330	765	4,077

2012	Q 1	957	695	1,339	377	3,368	279	283	173	734
	Q 2	942	828	1,549	353	3,672	284	341	199	824
	Q 3	907	1,050	1,680	410	4,047	312	346	219	877
	Q 4	837	834	1,341	308	3,320	325	261	177	763
	Year	3,643	3,407	5,909	1,448	14,407	1,199	1,231	768	3,198

2013	Q 1	862	785	1,296	332	3,275	394	366	169	930
	Q 2	772	754	1,489	353	3,368	333	331	170	834
	Q 3	931	904	1,665	375	3,875	282	312	229	823
	Q 4	751	988	1,245	399	3,383	295	297	159	751
	Year	3,316	3,431	5,695	1,459	13,901	1,305	1,306	727	3,338

2014	Q 1	891	1,006	1,396	540	3,833	336	229	180	744
	Q 2	875	1,091	1,590	593	4,149	296	242	174	712
	Q 3	962	1,183	1,705	478	4,328	366	379	228	974
	Q 4	878	1,019	1,261	346	3,504	368	214	172	754
	Year	3,606	4,299	5,952	1,957	15,814	1,366	1,064	754	3,184

2015	Q 1	1,066	1,046	1,454	335	3,901	525	243	206	973
	Q 2	991	1,021	1,663	372	4,047	527	321	216	1,065
	Q 3	1,128	1,492	1,942	447	5,009	494	568	293	1,354
	Q 4	1,084	1,565	1,413	408	4,470	601	687	180	1,468
	Year	4,269	5,124	6,472	1,562	17,427	2,147	1,819	895	4,861

2016	Q 1	1,169	1,695	1,680	370	4,914	502	522	256	1,280
	Q 2	1,203	1,758	1,849	426	5,236	554	460	231	1,245

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q2 2016, classified by region, county and type of development

Planning Region and County	Number of Permissions					Total Floor Area (000 sq.m)
	New Construction		Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	New Construction		Extension	Total¹
	Dwellings	Other	Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	Dwellings	Other	Extension	Total¹

Border, Midland and West
Border, Midland and West	380	486	462	95	1,423	140	114	57	311

Border	160	211	200	43	614	53	58	24	136

Cavan	17	33	18	2	70	5	7	3	14
Donegal	55	45	80	9	189	13	8	9	30
Leitrim	6	8	7	1	22	2	1	0	3
Louth	40	36	44	10	130	23	14	3	40
Monaghan	28	58	18	8	112	8	27	5	40
Sligo	14	31	33	13	91	3	2	4	8

Midland	75	113	92	19	299	24	22	12	58

Laois	22	32	26	7	87	10	5	2	17
Longford	17	19	15	5	56	4	2	2	7
Offaly	21	30	13	4	68	6	11	3	21
Westmeath	15	32	38	3	88	4	5	5	13

West	145	162	170	33	510	63	33	20	117

Galway City	10	7	24	11	52	19	0	2	21
Galway²	60	84	63	6	213	16	20	7	43
Mayo	57	39	62	12	170	24	8	9	42
Roscommon	18	32	21	4	75	4	4	2	11

Southern and Eastern	823	1,272	1,387	331	3,813	414	346	174	934

Dublin	183	288	566	170	1,207	150	83	60	293

Dublin City	78	168	217	101	564	80	20	28	129
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	40	47	155	27	269	20	2	12	33
Fingal	47	55	104	25	231	45	26	14	85
South Dublin	18	18	90	17	143	5	35	6	46

Mid-East	151	129	189	35	504	73	62	19	154

Kildare	58	49	71	7	185	18	11	10	39
Meath	58	46	58	16	178	39	29	6	73
Wicklow	35	34	60	12	141	17	22	4	42

Mid-West	115	205	173	34	527	31	39	26	96

Clare	57	76	62	8	203	15	9	4	29
Limerick	39	88	74	19	220	11	21	18	51
North Tipperary	19	41	37	7	104	4	9	4	17

South-East	172	327	220	48	767	72	77	25	173

Carlow	22	32	16	5	75	6	7	3	15
Kilkenny	44	111	50	12	217	11	19	6	36
South Tipperary	15	52	19	7	93	3	15	2	20
Waterford	30	58	64	14	166	10	13	9	32
Wexford	61	74	71	10	216	42	23	6	71

South-West	202	323	239	44	808	87	86	45	218

Cork City	18	12	34	13	77	23	0	3	26
Cork²	131	235	151	30	547	53	69	31	152
Kerry	53	76	54	1	184	12	17	10	40

State	1,203	1,758	1,849	426	5,236	554	460	231	1,245

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
²Excluding cities
- No permissions
Note: 0 implies less than 500sq m

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Table 3(a) Number of Planning Permissions granted, Q2 2016, classified by region, type of development and functional category

	Functional Category
Type of Development and Planning Region	Dwellings	Commercial Buildings	Buildings for Agriculture	Industrial Buildings	Govt., Health and Education	Other Buildings for Social Use	Civil Eng.	Other	Total

New Construction

Border, Midland and Western	380	16	198	8	6	7	128	123	866

Border	160	6	83	3	2	4	53	60	371
Midland	75	2	40	2	2	-	42	25	188
West	145	8	75	3	2	3	33	38	307

Southern and Eastern	823	62	312	37	19	13	343	486	2,095

Dublin	183	30	2	14	7	3	34	198	471
Mid-East	151	6	21	5	4	1	31	61	280
Mid-West	115	6	77	1	1	2	62	56	320
South-East	172	11	105	9	3	5	99	95	499
South West	202	9	107	8	4	2	117	76	525

State	1,203	78	510	45	25	20	471	609	2,961

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	349	24	28	9	42	10	-	-	462

Border	155	15	12	5	10	3	-	-	200
Midland	67	5	3	1	10	6	-	-	92
West	127	4	13	3	22	1	-	-	170

Southern and Eastern	1,145	67	54	34	65	22	-	-	1,387

Dublin	512	26	-	4	21	3	-	-	566
Mid-East	153	12	5	4	12	3	-	-	189
Mid-West	125	6	11	7	17	7	-	-	173
South-East	176	8	23	6	5	2	-	-	220
South West	179	15	15	13	10	7	-	-	239

State	1,494	91	82	43	107	32	-	-	1,849

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	18	49	2	5	16	5	-	-	95

Border	4	26	1	2	8	2	-	-	43
Midland	3	10	1	2	2	1	-	-	19
West	11	13	-	1	6	2	-	-	33

Southern and Eastern	109	146	5	17	32	22	-	-	331

Dublin	67	71	-	7	16	9	-	-	170
Mid-East	8	18	1	1	3	4	-	-	35
Mid-West	14	13	-	2	4	1	-	-	34
South-East	11	24	3	2	4	4	-	-	48
South West	9	20	1	5	5	4	-	-	44

State	127	195	7	22	48	27	-	-	426

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	747	89	228	22	64	22	128	123	1,423

Border	319	47	96	10	20	9	53	60	614
Midland	145	17	44	5	14	7	42	25	299
West	283	25	88	7	30	6	33	38	510

Southern and Eastern	2,077	275	371	88	116	57	343	486	3,813

Dublin	762	127	2	25	44	15	34	198	1,207
Mid-East	312	36	27	10	19	8	31	61	504
Mid-West	254	25	88	10	22	10	62	56	527
South-East	359	43	131	17	12	11	99	95	767
South West	390	44	123	26	19	13	117	76	808

State	2,824	364	599	110	180	79	471	609	5,236

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q2 2016, classified by region and functional category
	Functional Category
Type of Development and Planning Region	Dwellings	Commercial Buildings	Buildings for Agriculture	Industrial Buildings	Govt., Health and Education	Other Buildings for Social Use	Total¹

New Construction

Border, Midland and Western	140	9	84	12	5	4	254

Border	53	3	47	7	0	1	112
Midland	24	2	15	4	1	-	46
West	63	4	22	1	3	3	97

Southern and Eastern	414	90	164	39	49	4	760

Dublin	150	37	1	19	24	1	233
Mid-East	73	23	15	11	13	0	135
Mid-West	31	4	33	0	1	0	70
South-East	72	5	60	5	5	2	149
South West	87	20	55	4	7	0	173

State	554	99	248	51	54	8	1,014

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	26	5	8	6	9	3	57

Border	11	2	4	4	2	0	24
Midland	5	1	1	0	2	3	12
West	10	1	3	1	4	0	20

Southern and Eastern	69	28	25	16	31	5	174

Dublin	27	18	-	1	13	1	60
Mid-East	10	3	3	0	2	1	19
Mid-West	9	1	5	5	7	0	26
South-East	12	2	7	2	1	0	25
South West	12	5	10	8	7	3	45

State	95	33	33	23	39	8	231

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	166	14	92	18	13	7	311


Border	64	6	51	11	2	1	136
Midland	29	3	16	5	3	3	58
West	73	5	26	2	8	3	117

Southern and Eastern	483	118	189	55	80	9	934

Dublin	178	55	1	20	38	2	293
Mid-East	83	25	18	11	15	1	154
Mid-West	40	5	38	5	7	1	96
South-East	84	8	67	7	6	2	173
South West	99	25	65	12	14	3	218

State	649	132	281	73	93	16	1,245
¹For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
- No Permission
Note: 0 implies less than 500sq m

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Table 4 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted for new houses and apartments, Q1 2011 - Q2 2016

		All Houses				of which Multi-Development Houses				of which One-Off Houses				Apartments
		Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)	Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)	Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)	Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)



2011	Q 1	1,205	3,075	528	171.7	78	1,948	246	126.2	1,127	1,127	282	250.3	67	592	65	109.2
	Q 2	1,197	2,599	487	187.3	71	1,473	204	138.8	1,126	1,126	282	250.7	63	711	70	98.9
	Q 3	1,207	1,887	389	206.4	83	763	111	145.9	1,124	1,124	278	247.5	56	625	73	117.5
	Q 4	907	1,537	302	196.3	41	671	86	128.6	866	866	210	249.0	43	619	54	87.9
	Year	4,516	9,098	1,706	187.5	273	4,855	647	133.4	4,243	4,243	1,058	249.4	229	2,547	263	103.2

2012	Q 1	902	1,263	268	212.4	34	395	53	134.7	868	868	215	247.8	49	92	7	80.8
	Q 2	875	1,166	257	220.0	45	336	48	143.2	830	830	208	251.2	62	240	24	101.8
	Q 3	857	1,540	302	196.1	56	739	107	145.4	801	801	194	242.8	47	98	8	85.1
	Q 4	788	1,420	283	199.4	37	669	96	143.2	751	751	187	249.5	46	431	40	92.5
	Year	3,422	5,389	1,110	206.0	172	2,139	305	142.4	3,250	3,250	805	247.8	204	861	80	93.0

2013	Q 1	818	1,860	345	185.7	45	1,087	155	142.6	773	773	190	246.2	40	448	46	102.1
	Q 2	727	1,496	280	187.1	43	812	109	134.5	684	684	171	249.6	40	430	50	116.9
	Q 3	864	1,252	266	212.6	45	433	63	146.6	819	819	203	247.5	64	157	12	76.6
	Q 4	694	1,394	270	193.6	54	754	109	144.1	640	640	161	252.0	53	162	15	93.6
	Year	3,103	6,002	1,161	193.5	187	3,086	436	141.4	2,916	2,916	725	248.6	197	1,197	123	103.0

2014	Q 1	835	1,446	296	204.6	61	672	106	157.3	774	774	190	245.7	49	158	15	96.9
	Q 2	809	1,492	283	190.0	57	740	99	133.2	752	752	185	245.9	63	114	10	84.9
	Q 3	887	1,783	330	185.2	66	962	134	138.9	821	821	197	239.6	65	361	31	86.9
	Q 4	804	1,905	352	184.5	55	1,156	166	143.2	749	749	186	248.3	69	152	13	85.3
	Year	3,335	6,626	1,261	190.3	239	3,530	503	142.6	3,096	3,096	758	244.8	246	785	69	88.3

2015	Q 1	977	2,514	454	180.6	69	1,606	232	144.3	908	908	222	244.8	82	699	68	97.2
	Q 2	913	2,637	475	180.0	92	1,816	277	152.5	821	821	198	241.0	73	473	47	99.7
	Q 3	1,036	2,345	419	178.6	86	1,395	189	135.2	950	950	230	242.4	85	359	32	89.2
	Q 4	995	2,754	481	174.7	82	1,841	259	140.5	913	913	222	243.5	86	1,263	119	94.2
	Year	3,921	10,250	1,829	178.4	329	6,658	956	143.6	3,592	3,592	873	243.0	326	2,794	266	95.2

2016	Q 1	1,072	2,534	445	175.7	94	1,556	209	134.2	978	978	236	241.8	90	557	50	90.1
	Q 2	1,090	2,340	422	180.3	100	1,350	188	139.0	990	990	234	236.6	107	801	71	88.0

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Background Notes

Scope and Background

Details of the scope and background of this series were given in the March 1973 Statistical Bulletin. The Planning and Development Acts 1963 - 2000, imposes certain requirements on builders, developers and all other persons who propose to build or develop and specifies that a planning permission must be obtained from the relevant Planning Authority.

Local authority building (including housing) is exempt in the case where construction takes place in the Authorities’ own area. Therefore, works undertaken by a local authority outside its functional area come within the scope of the Acts, and need planning permission. Planning permission is also needed for development by the State, except where the consultation procedures provided for in the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1993 obtain (e.g. national security, public safety or order, the administration of justice etc). This series only provides coverage where development is subject to the requirement to obtain planning permission.

This series is also available using the interactive tables in StatBank on the CSO website.

Regions

The Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994, established eight new Regions. The CSO has adopted these in place of the old Planning Regions as the basis for the regional breakdown of planning permissions data.

Classification

Planning permissions are classified by type of development, local authority district and by regional authority. A distinction is made between residential and non-residential building and civil engineering.

Coverage

Only final grants of permission or approvals are covered, i.e. only works which involve construction. The following permissions are excluded since they do not entail construction per se:

Changes of a technical and business nature as distinct from a building or structural nature;
Outline permission;
Retention of an existing building;
Changes to existing plan;
Bye-law permission;
Refusals - permissions subsequently granted on appeal by An Bord Pleanála are included.

Rounding

As the figures for floor area have been rounded there may be slight discrepancies between the sum of the constituent items and the totals shown.

Estimates are included where complete details of floor area size are not available.

NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

The regional classifications in this release are based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat. The NUTS3 regions correspond to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994. The NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, are groupings of the NUTS3 regions. The composition of the regions is set out below.

Border Midlands and Western NUTS 2 Region		Eastern and Southern NUTS 2 Region

Border	Cavan	Dublin	Dublin
	Donegal		Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown
	Leitrim		Fingal
	Louth		South Dubin
	Monaghan
	Sligo

Midland	Laois	Mid-East	Kildare
	Longford		Meath
	Offaly		Wicklow
	Westmeath

West	Galway City	South-West	Cork City
	Galway County		Cork County
	Mayo		Kerry
	Roscommon
		South-East	Carlow
			Kilkenny
			South Tipperary
			Waterford
			Wexford

		Mid -West	Clare
			Limerick
			North Tipperary

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Planning Permissions

Quarter 2 2016

Dwelling units approved up 1.0% in year

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