PlanningBrief insights

Irish construction planning trends.

Aggregate views of the live PlanningBrief planning, appeal and tender datasets: where applications are concentrated, what project types dominate, and how value bands distribute.

Last updated 29 Jul 2026 06:22 UTC Planning feed ETL 28 Jul 2026 / 5953 public planning leads

Live planning dataset

5,953 public planning leads across 25 counties.

MetricValue
Latest measured week2026-07-27
Top county by countDublin
Top project classOne-off house
Open/current TED tenders644

Activity cluster

Dublin currently leads the index with 1,221 records (20.5% of the surfaced register).

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Project mix

One-off house is the largest project class at 2,151 records (36.1%), so use project-type pages to separate domestic, commercial and larger schemes.

Browse project types

Current signal

2026-07 contributes 1,888 records in the current month bucket; tender volume is strongest in Construction works with 172 notices in the imported sample.

Open tenders

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Applications by county

CountyCountShare
Dublin 1221 20.5%
Donegal 563 9.5%
Galway 465 7.8%
Meath 303 5.1%
Limerick 288 4.8%
Tipperary 284 4.8%
Clare 253 4.2%
Waterford 230 3.9%
Kerry 213 3.6%
Louth 208 3.5%
Wexford 208 3.5%
Laois 185 3.1%
Mayo 181 3.0%
Kilkenny 173 2.9%

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Applications by project type

SegmentCountShare
One-off house 2151 36.1%
Retention 1152 19.4%
Small residential 898 15.1%
Agricultural 374 6.3%
Commercial fit-out 309 5.2%
Infrastructure 229 3.8%
Protected structure 185 3.1%
Demolition 142 2.4%
Commercial new build 99 1.7%
Large residential 86 1.4%
Small multi-unit 78 1.3%
Energy 65 1.1%
Mixed use 64 1.1%
Planning record 42 0.7%

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Applications by month

SegmentCountShare
2026-07 1888 31.7%
2026-05 1241 20.8%
2026-04 1076 18.1%
2026-06 510 8.6%
2026-03 347 5.8%
2026-02 215 3.6%
2025-12 172 2.9%
2026-01 144 2.4%
2025-11 120 2.0%
2025-10 88 1.5%
2025-09 52 0.9%
2025-08 26 0.4%

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Value-band distribution

SegmentCountShare
Unknown - verify 3934 66.1%
EUR 250k-500k 1432 24.1%
EUR <250k 317 5.3%
EUR 500k-1m 161 2.7%
EUR 1m-3m 50 0.8%
EUR 3m-10m 40 0.7%
EUR 10m-30m 13 0.2%
EUR 30m+ 6 0.1%

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Tender volume by CPV family

SegmentCountShare
Construction works 172 57.3%
Architecture / engineering 116 38.7%
Construction materials 12 4.0%
Ranked

County league tables

Rank counties by application count, estimated units and largest current project.

High value

Biggest projects

Largest current planning leads and construction tenders by value signal.