This week in Irish planning · 2026-W30

20 to 26 July 2026

Your weekly construction briefing: what was published, what was decided, which commencements were notified, and who is named as builder.

Badges come from the weekly snapshot's section status, set by source coverage: "Still counting" means councils are still publishing applications for this week; "Final count" means coverage for this week is complete. How we count.

By county

Dublin recorded 101 applications published and 64 grants; Wexford recorded 48 and 42. Cork recorded 22 applications published and 6 grants.

Applications published, grants and refusals by county
CountyApplicationsGrantsRefusals
Dublin1016413
Wexford48426
Cork2261
Louth13121
Meath1385
Tipperary11110
Galway1072
Kerry1091
Show all 24 counties

Past weeks

Week 43 · 19 to 25 OctWeek 42 · 12 to 18 OctWeek 41 · 5 to 11 OctWeek 40 · 28 Sep to 4 OctWeek 39 · 21 to 27 SepWeek 38 · 14 to 20 SepWeek 37 · 7 to 13 SepWeek 36 · 31 Aug to 6 SepAll editions ›PDF

How we count. A week runs Monday to Sunday. Applications are counted by the date the council published them, which lags the date they were received; the badge comes from the weekly snapshot's section status, set by source coverage, so "Still counting" means the count will rise and "Final count" means coverage for the week is complete. Grants and refusals are counted by decision date. Commencements are commencement notices by their stated commencement date; a notice is not proof that work has begun, and a project can have several notices. Appeals are counted by the date the Commission received them; appeal decisions for the week are not in our data. "Est." marks a unit count or floor area read from the planning description where the council gave no structured figure; values are PlanningBrief estimates, not contract values. Companies are named where the council or the notice names them; no individual is named.