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Weekly roundup · 3 August to 9 August 2026

499 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 32 so far, register shows

Ireland's 31 planning authorities received 499 planning applications between 3 August and 9 August 2026. Cork County Council was the busiest council with 56. Councils publish to the national register with a lag, so these figures are provisional and will rise.

Provisional. Councils publish to the national register a week or more after receiving an application, so a week’s total keeps rising for four to five weeks after it ends. The register is current to 31 August 2026. Treat the week-on-week comparison as indicative until then.

499
Applications lodged
-28%
vs previous week (provisional)
8
Major projects lodged
7
Major projects decided

Applications by council

Every application received in the week, by planning authority, against the week before.

Planning authorityThis weekPreviousChange
Cork County Council5658-2
Donegal County Council3958-19
Galway County Council3547-12
Wicklow County Council3430+4
Tipperary County Council2832-4
Fingal County Council2733-6
Limerick County Council2431-7
Meath County Council2345-22
Waterford City and County Council2220+2
South Dublin County Council2026-6
Mayo County Council1927-8
Clare County Council1826-8
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council1843-25
Kilkenny County Council1816+2
Westmeath County Council178+9
Kerry County Council1617-1
Louth County Council1632-16
Roscommon County Council14140
Cavan County Council1118-7
Offaly County Council118+3
Laois County Council822-14
Carlow County Council713-6
Monaghan County Council512-7
Leitrim County Council41+3
Longford County Council440
Galway City Council37-4
Wexford County Council21+1

Major projects

Solar farms, wind farms, battery storage, data centres, housing schemes of 50+ homes and hotels of 40+ bedrooms.

KindLodgedDecided
Solar farms31
Battery storage10
Housing schemes46

Lodged this week

Decided this week

Method

Counts are of applications with a received date inside the ISO week (3 August to 9 August), read from the national planning applications dataset published by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on behalf of the 31 planning authorities. Major projects are identified by scanning each development description; sizes come from the register fields and the description itself, and each story quotes the description in full.

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Source: Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, "499 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 32 so far, register shows", 9 August 2026. https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w32

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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w32">499 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 32 so far, register shows</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 9 August 2026.</p>