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 25 Sep 2026 03:54 UTC Planning feed ETL 25 Sep 2026 / 8480 public planning leads

Live planning dataset

8,480 public planning leads across 26 counties.

MetricValue
Latest measured week2026-09-24
Top county by countDublin
Top project classSmall residential
Open/current TED tenders612

Activity cluster

Dublin currently leads the index with 2,139 records (25.2% of the surfaced register).

Open county league tables

Project mix

Small residential is the largest project class at 2,375 records (28.0%), so use project-type pages to separate domestic, commercial and larger schemes.

Browse project types

Current signal

2026-09 contributes 2,970 records in the current month bucket; tender volume is strongest in Construction works with 170 notices in the imported sample.

Open tenders

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Applications by county

CountyCountShare
Dublin 2139 25.2%
Cork 745 8.8%
Galway 550 6.5%
Donegal 536 6.3%
Wexford 461 5.4%
Limerick 341 4.0%
Meath 306 3.6%
Tipperary 290 3.4%
Wicklow 277 3.3%
Kerry 271 3.2%
Kildare 258 3.0%
Clare 257 3.0%
Waterford 213 2.5%
Mayo 212 2.5%

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Applications by project type

SegmentCountShare
Small residential 2375 28.0%
One-off house 1686 19.9%
Retention 1315 15.5%
Agricultural 499 5.9%
Planning record 483 5.7%
Commercial fit-out 353 4.2%
Protected structure 294 3.5%
Public / civic 289 3.4%
Commercial new build 271 3.2%
Infrastructure 180 2.1%
Large residential 157 1.9%
Mixed use 154 1.8%
Small multi-unit 118 1.4%
Energy 95 1.1%

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Applications by month

SegmentCountShare
2026-09 2970 35.0%
2026-07 1864 22.0%
2026-06 1078 12.7%
2026-08 1068 12.6%
2026-05 444 5.2%
2026-04 300 3.5%
2026-03 190 2.2%
2026-02 153 1.8%
2025-12 127 1.5%
2026-01 97 1.1%
2025-11 62 0.7%
2025-10 41 0.5%

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Value-band distribution

SegmentCountShare
Unknown - verify 6835 80.6%
EUR 250k-500k 1112 13.1%
EUR <250k 278 3.3%
EUR 500k-1m 128 1.5%
EUR 1m-3m 57 0.7%
EUR 3m-10m 34 0.4%
EUR 30m+ 20 0.2%
EUR 10m-30m 16 0.2%

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Tender volume by CPV family

SegmentCountShare
Construction works 170 56.7%
Architecture / engineering 124 41.3%
Construction materials 6 2.0%
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.