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CSO statistical release, 19 December 2016, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 3 2016

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 3 2015	2,345	359	2,704
Quarter 3 2016	4,362	1,452	5,814
% change	86.0%	304.5%	115.0%

Dwelling units approved up 115.0% in year

Number of Dwelling Units approved classified by type of unit, Q12015 - Q32016

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In the third quarter of 2016, planning permissions were granted for 5,814 dwelling units, compared with 2,704 units for the same period in 2015, an increase of 115.0%.

The third quarter figures also show that:

Planning Permissions were granted for 4,362 houses in the third quarter of 2016 and 2,345 in the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 86.0%.
Planning permissions were granted for 1,452 apartment units, compared with 359 units for the same period in 2015, an increase of 304.5%.
One-off houses accounted for 19.4% 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 6,126. This compares with 5,009 in the third quarter of 2015, an increase of 22.3%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 1,736 thousand square metres in the third quarter of 2016. Of this, 48.7% was for new dwellings, 36.2% for other new constructions and 15.1% for extensions. The total floor area planned increased by 28.2% in comparison with the same quarter in 2015. See Table 1.
Planning Permissions for new buildings for Agriculture decreased to 494 this quarter. This compares to 301 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

Show Table A Summary of Planning Permissions granted for new Dwelling Units

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%
	Q3	4,362	86%	3,233	132%	1,129	19%	1,452	305%	5,814	115%

Note: Percentages are rounded for tabular purposes

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2008 - Q3 2016

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

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
	Q 3	1,403	1,974	2,198	551	6,126	845	629	262	1,736

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q3 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	457	611	528	150	1,746	176	162	85	422

Border	201	262	219	73	755	69	98	35	201

Cavan	21	35	33	1	90	6	16	9	32
Donegal	76	77	78	21	252	21	18	7	46
Leitrim	1	22	13	3	39	0	4	1	5
Louth	36	33	48	22	139	20	7	9	36
Monaghan	34	60	23	14	131	9	47	5	60
Sligo	33	35	24	12	104	13	6	4	22

Midland	105	174	92	21	392	43	35	11	89

Laois	33	58	26	4	121	18	16	2	36
Longford	12	44	12	3	71	3	7	1	11
Offaly	17	37	22	3	79	4	4	5	13
Westmeath	43	35	32	11	121	18	8	3	29

West	151	175	217	56	599	65	29	38	132

Galway City	11	10	35	24	80	9	0	8	17
Galway²	66	95	91	19	271	24	19	17	61
Mayo	55	24	63	12	154	19	4	10	33
Roscommon	19	46	28	1	94	12	5	3	21

Southern and Eastern	946	1,363	1,670	401	4,380	669	468	177	1,314

Dublin	186	297	626	160	1,269	291	196	50	537

Dublin City	82	146	251	89	568	142	72	23	237
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	40	56	158	36	290	65	83	10	157
Fingal	52	48	123	14	237	63	7	12	83
South Dublin	12	47	94	21	174	21	34	5	60

Mid-East	174	171	236	51	632	168	51	27	246

Kildare	45	61	82	13	201	65	25	9	99
Meath	81	63	83	22	249	73	19	11	104
Wicklow	48	47	71	16	182	30	6	7	43

Mid-West	113	179	154	34	480	54	40	24	118

Clare	48	70	70	7	195	26	16	7	49
Limerick	40	53	53	19	165	16	15	5	37
North Tipperary	25	56	31	8	120	11	8	12	31

South-East	162	300	237	63	762	44	68	31	143

Carlow	13	28	30	9	80	3	3	4	10
Kilkenny	31	68	49	11	159	8	10	5	22
South Tipperary	19	59	34	9	121	4	15	6	26
Waterford	30	69	58	13	170	12	19	9	41
Wexford	69	76	66	21	232	16	21	6	43

South-West	311	416	417	93	1,237	112	114	45	271

Cork City	26	30	52	15	123	12	0	4	16
Cork²	232	311	288	67	898	80	99	36	215
Kerry	53	75	77	11	216	20	15	5	41

State	1,403	1,974	2,198	551	6,126	845	629	262	1,736

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 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	457	20	214	17	14	4	161	181	1,068

Border	201	11	95	9	8	1	68	70	463
Midland	105	7	51	6	2	2	62	44	279
West	151	2	68	2	4	1	31	67	326

Southern and Eastern	946	74	280	56	27	19	365	542	2,309

Dublin	186	40	4	16	9	4	39	185	483
Mid-East	174	12	30	2	7	4	47	69	345
Mid-West	113	3	55	8	2	2	44	65	292
South-East	162	10	84	13	3	5	91	94	462
South West	311	9	107	17	6	4	144	129	727

State	1,403	94	494	73	41	23	526	723	3,377

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	383	30	25	17	57	16	-	-	528

Border	161	13	14	10	15	6	-	-	219
Midland	77	4	2	3	6	-	-	-	92
West	145	13	9	4	36	10	-	-	217

Southern and Eastern	1,403	78	44	32	80	33	-	-	1,670

Dublin	557	31	-	6	23	9	-	-	626
Mid-East	196	8	3	3	17	9	-	-	236
Mid-West	124	11	4	6	7	2	-	-	154
South-East	180	12	21	5	13	6	-	-	237
South West	346	16	16	12	20	7	-	-	417

State	1,786	108	69	49	137	49	-	-	2,198

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	37	62	5	8	28	10	-	-	150

Border	12	37	2	1	15	6	-	-	73
Midland	4	7	2	2	4	2	-	-	21
West	21	18	1	5	9	2	-	-	56

Southern and Eastern	152	149	4	18	49	29	-	-	401

Dublin	73	59	-	8	13	7	-	-	160
Mid-East	15	16	1	2	9	8	-	-	51
Mid-West	5	15	2	3	4	5	-	-	34
South-East	9	34	1	1	13	5	-	-	63
South West	50	25	-	4	10	4	-	-	93

State	189	211	9	26	77	39	-	-	551

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	877	112	244	42	99	30	161	181	1,746

Border	374	61	111	20	38	13	68	70	755
Midland	186	18	55	11	12	4	62	44	392
West	317	33	78	11	49	13	31	67	599

Southern and Eastern	2,501	301	328	106	156	81	365	542	4,380

Dublin	816	130	4	30	45	20	39	185	1,269
Mid-East	385	36	34	7	33	21	47	69	632
Mid-West	242	29	61	17	13	9	44	65	480
South-East	351	56	106	19	29	16	91	94	762
South West	707	50	123	33	36	15	144	129	1,237

State	3,378	413	572	148	255	111	526	723	6,126

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q3 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	176	10	118	15	16	2	338

Border	69	5	67	14	11	0	166
Midland	43	3	28	1	0	2	78
West	65	1	23	0	4	0	93

Southern and Eastern	669	185	160	52	47	24	1,137

Dublin	291	157	2	29	7	1	487
Mid-East	168	5	22	1	11	12	219
Mid-West	54	6	23	9	3	1	94
South-East	44	6	46	5	9	2	112
South West	112	12	68	8	18	9	226

State	845	195	278	67	63	26	1,475

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	26	13	8	13	21	3	85

Border	11	3	5	10	5	1	35
Midland	6	1	1	2	2	-	11
West	10	9	2	2	14	2	38

Southern and Eastern	79	17	15	28	32	6	177

Dublin	25	7	-	1	15	3	50
Mid-East	13	2	0	2	7	2	27
Mid-West	9	3	1	10	1	1	24
South-East	11	2	6	6	6	0	31
South West	21	4	8	9	3	0	45

State	106	30	23	41	52	10	262

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	202	23	126	29	36	6	422


Border	79	9	72	24	16	2	201
Midland	49	4	29	3	2	2	89
West	74	10	25	2	18	2	132

Southern and Eastern	748	202	175	79	79	30	1,314

Dublin	316	163	2	31	21	4	537
Mid-East	182	7	22	3	18	14	246
Mid-West	63	8	24	18	4	1	118
South-East	55	8	51	11	15	2	143
South West	133	16	76	17	21	9	271

State	951	225	301	108	115	36	1,736
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 - Q3 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
	Q 3	1,273	4,362	703	161.1	144	3,233	434	134.2	1,129	1,129	269	238.4	126	1,452	126	87.0

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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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Rounding

NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

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