State of planning
The state of Irish planning
A public, source-linked readout of Irish planning decisions, housing permissions, commencement notices, appeals and the gap between granted permissions and matched starts.
0 decisions, latest to latest.
Donegal n/a; top counties by decision volume.
Unit fields populated for 0 of 0 grants in the displayed series.
0 deduped direct units from current BCMS sources.
ACP lodged records over the same 24-month decision window.
This week vs the long view
Use this page for the long-run picture, and the weekly page for new publications.
Housing permissions, starts and decision rates
Recent months are labelled provisional because official-source publication can lag the actual received, decision or commencement date.
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Commencement unit method: Current BCMS notice units are deduped before publication.
Spike check: December 2025 raw commencement units were 0; published deduped direct units are 0 across 0 notices.
Appeals
Appeal-rate and decision-to-lodged timing use linked pairs: n/a of ACP appeals have an application link in this cache. Duration and outcome split use ACP records directly.
0 of 0 decisions; grants n/a, refusals n/a.
Median from council decision date to ACP lodged date across 0 linked pairs.
Median lodged-to-outcome timing across 0 ACP rows with both dates.
ACP rows grouped by decision text; no application linkage required.
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Granted but not yet matched to a start
31% of H1 2025 grants have a matched commencement in PlanningBrief data 12+ months later
This is a PlanningBrief linkage statistic, not an official built-out rate.
Current cache: 0 matched commencements from 0 H1 2025 grants.
County decision variation
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Source freshness
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Methodology
This section is part of the page, not a footnote. It explains what each number means, where it comes from, and what PlanningBrief is deliberately not claiming.
Methodology notes will appear after the cache is built.