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CSO statistical release, 15 December 2015, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 3 2015

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 3 2014	1,783	361	2,144
Quarter 3 2015	2,345	317	2,662
% change	31.5%	-12.2%	24.2%

Dwelling units approved up 24.2% in year

Number of Dwelling Units approved classified by type of unit, Q12014 - Q3 2015

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In the third quarter of 2015, planning permissions were granted for 2,662 dwelling units, compared with 2,144 units for the same period in 2014, an increase of 24.2%. See Table 4.

The third quarter figures also show that:

Planning Permissions were granted for 2,345 houses in the third quarter of 2015 and 1,783 in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 31.5%. See Table 4.
Planning permissions were granted for 317 apartment units, compared with 361 units for the same period in 2014, a decrease of 12.2%. See Table 4.
One-off houses accounted for 35.7% 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 5,002. This compares with 4,328 in the third quarter of 2014, an increase of 15.6%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 1,306 thousand square metres in the third quarter of 2015. Of this, 37.4% was for new dwellings, 40.2% for other new constructions and 22.4% for extensions. The total floor area planned increased by 34.1% in comparison with the same quarter in 2014. See Table 1.
Planning Permissions for new buildings for Agriculture increased to 301 this quarter. This compares to 191 permissions in the same quarter of 2014. See Table 3(a).

X-axis label	Planning Permissions Civil	Planning Permissions Non-Res	Planning Permissions Dwellings
2010	692	3847	13217
2011	689	3665	10586
2012	821	3794	8569
2013	806	3440	8204
2014	1232	3498	9072

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2007 - Q3 2015

		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

2007	Q 1	5,709	4,995	4,033	651	15,388	2,952	2,272	570	5,793
	Q 2	5,636	6,229	4,751	695	17,311	3,409	2,668	643	6,719
	Q 3	5,880	5,411	5,210	837	17,338	3,165	2,748	725	6,638
	Q 4	5,028	2,767	3,841	694	12,330	2,680	1,626	529	4,835
	Year	22,253	19,402	17,835	2,877	62,367	12,206	9,314	2,467	23,985

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	1,065	1,041	1,454	335	3,895	517	229	206	952
	Q 2	990	1,013	1,663	372	4,038	515	293	216	1,024
	Q 3	1,127	1,486	1,942	447	5,002	488	525	293	1,306

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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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	384	401	479	102	1,366	131	136	57	324

Border	172	183	242	51	648	60	89	30	178

Cavan	38	31	32	4	105	10	13	8	31
Donegal	62	48	80	12	202	17	13	9	39
Leitrim	2	9	11	3	25	1	0	1	1
Louth	24	25	70	22	141	8	0	6	14
Monaghan	32	39	25	5	101	20	58	4	82
Sligo	14	31	24	5	74	3	5	2	10

Midland	86	106	80	20	292	38	20	11	69

Laois	21	49	27	6	103	6	5	4	14
Longford	12	12	15	1	40	4	1	2	7
Offaly	22	16	17	6	61	6	1	3	10
Westmeath	31	29	21	7	88	23	13	2	38

West	126	112	157	31	426	33	27	17	77

Galway City	7	16	12	9	44	2	13	0	15
Galway²	64	66	77	14	221	17	12	8	37
Mayo	33	12	42	5	92	7	2	5	14
Roscommon	22	18	26	3	69	7	0	3	11

Southern and Eastern	743	1,085	1,463	345	3,636	357	389	235	982

Dublin	159	228	562	183	1,132	176	170	53	399

Dublin City	58	118	210	99	485	61	46	17	123
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	40	27	151	37	255	12	0	11	23
Fingal	36	66	102	27	231	40	113	13	166
South Dublin	25	17	99	20	161	63	11	12	86

Mid-East	138	115	181	42	476	38	24	51	113

Kildare	29	26	59	8	122	7	2	9	19
Meath	61	45	53	17	176	16	8	37	61
Wicklow	48	44	69	17	178	14	14	4	33

Mid-West	91	160	174	35	460	25	36	41	102

Clare	42	56	54	10	162	12	17	12	41
Limerick	33	46	83	24	186	8	9	24	41
North Tipperary	16	58	37	1	112	5	11	4	19

South-East	151	277	216	42	686	51	78	34	163

Carlow	8	20	26	2	56	12	0	3	15
Kilkenny	29	57	41	16	143	8	24	6	39
South Tipperary	15	62	39	7	123	5	21	10	36
Waterford	24	48	50	6	128	7	9	4	20
Wexford	75	90	60	11	236	19	23	11	54

South-West	204	305	330	43	882	68	81	57	206

Cork City	12	16	42	17	87	7	0	12	19
Cork²	149	215	209	21	594	45	63	30	138
Kerry	43	74	79	5	201	16	17	16	49

State	1,127	1,486	1,942	447	5,002	488	525	293	1,306

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, Q3 2015, 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	384	13	69	9	9	13	136	152	785

Border	172	11	34	4	4	5	65	60	355
Midland	86	1	12	3	2	4	34	50	192
West	126	1	23	2	3	4	37	42	238

Southern and Eastern	743	44	232	35	21	23	327	403	1,828

Dublin	159	20	-	12	13	5	39	139	387
Mid-East	138	4	25	3	4	3	26	50	253
Mid-West	91	3	54	2	1	5	50	45	251
South-East	151	4	75	9	3	4	91	91	428
South West	204	13	78	9	-	6	121	78	509

State	1,127	57	301	44	30	36	463	555	2,613

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	349	22	26	15	57	10	-	-	479

Border	181	11	12	5	32	1	-	-	242
Midland	54	3	5	5	12	1	-	-	80
West	114	8	9	5	13	8	-	-	157

Southern and Eastern	1,175	65	51	43	99	30	-	-	1,463

Dublin	487	29	-	8	26	12	-	-	562
Mid-East	153	5	3	-	14	6	-	-	181
Mid-West	126	9	12	6	19	2	-	-	174
South-East	171	5	16	11	12	1	-	-	216
South West	238	17	20	18	28	9	-	-	330

State	1,524	87	77	58	156	40	-	-	1,942

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	23	47	-	4	19	9	-	-	102

Border	8	22	-	3	13	5	-	-	51
Midland	5	12	-	-	2	1	-	-	20
West	10	13	-	1	4	3	-	-	31

Southern and Eastern	105	165	4	13	40	18	-	-	345

Dublin	72	87	-	1	14	9	-	-	183
Mid-East	9	16	-	3	11	3	-	-	42
Mid-West	6	18	-	4	5	2	-	-	35
South-East	8	22	4	1	3	4	-	-	42
South West	10	22	-	4	7	-	-	-	43

State	128	212	4	17	59	27	-	-	447

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	756	82	95	28	85	32	136	152	1,366

Border	361	44	46	12	49	11	65	60	648
Midland	145	16	17	8	16	6	34	50	292
West	250	22	32	8	20	15	37	42	426

Southern and Eastern	2,023	274	287	91	160	71	327	403	3,636

Dublin	718	136	-	21	53	26	39	139	1,132
Mid-East	300	25	28	6	29	12	26	50	476
Mid-West	223	30	66	12	25	9	50	45	460
South-East	330	31	95	21	18	9	91	91	686
South West	452	52	98	31	35	15	121	78	882

State	2,779	356	382	119	245	103	463	555	5,002

- No permissions

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q3 2015, 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	131	13	42	52	24	6	266

Border	60	8	21	47	10	2	148
Midland	38	1	12	4	1	2	58
West	33	4	9	0	13	1	60

Southern and Eastern	357	53	151	103	71	12	747

Dublin	176	34	-	80	54	2	346
Mid-East	38	2	14	1	7	1	62
Mid-West	25	3	26	2	4	1	61
South-East	51	8	58	2	5	4	129
South West	68	6	53	18	-	4	149

State	488	66	193	155	94	17	1,013

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	23	3	8	8	13	2	57

Border	11	1	4	5	8	0	30
Midland	5	0	2	1	3	0	11
West	8	2	2	2	2	2	17

Southern and Eastern	65	51	20	44	48	8	235

Dublin	20	10	-	4	15	5	53
Mid-East	10	27	2	-	12	1	51
Mid-West	9	6	5	18	3	0	41
South-East	12	1	5	13	3	0	34
South West	15	7	8	9	16	2	57

State	88	53	28	52	61	10	293

Total New Construction and Extension


Border, Midland and Western	154	16	49	60	36	8	324


Border	71	9	26	52	19	2	178
Midland	42	1	14	6	4	3	69
West	41	6	10	2	14	3	77

Southern and Eastern	422	104	171	147	119	20	982

Dublin	195	44	-	84	69	7	399
Mid-East	48	28	15	1	19	2	113
Mid-West	33	9	31	20	7	2	102
South-East	63	9	63	15	8	4	163
South West	83	13	62	27	16	6	206

State	576	120	221	207	155	27	1,306
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 2010 - Q3 2015

		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)



2010	Q 1	1,664	3,585	667	186.2	112	2,033	280	137.5	1,552	1,552	388	249.9	92	1,925	163	84.5
	Q 2	1,395	3,043	548	180.0	95	1,743	219	125.4	1,300	1,300	329	253.2	115	2,335	228	97.6
	Q 3	1,537	2,817	552	196.0	94	1,374	192	139.4	1,443	1,443	361	249.9	89	1,824	167	91.6
	Q 4	1,362	2,159	441	204.4	75	872	122	139.7	1,287	1,287	319	248.2	65	790	71	90.4
	Year	5,958	11,604	2,208	190.3	376	6,022	813	135.5	5,582	5,582	1,397	250.3	361	6,874	629	91.5

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	81	641	61	94.5
	Q 2	913	2,637	475	180.0	92	1,816	277	152.5	821	821	198	241.0	72	373	35	92.6
	Q 3	1,036	2,345	419	178.6	86	1,395	189	135.2	950	950	230	242.4	84	317	26	81.9

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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 3 2015

Dwelling units approved up 24.2% in year

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NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

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