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Weekly roundup · 10 August to 16 August 2026

561 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 33 so far, register shows

Ireland's 31 planning authorities received 561 planning applications between 10 August and 16 August 2026. Cork County Council was the busiest council with 43. 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.

561
Applications lodged
+12%
vs previous week (provisional)
13
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 Council4356-13
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council4018+22
Limerick County Council3724+13
Donegal County Council3639-3
Fingal County Council3327+6
Mayo County Council3319+14
Waterford City and County Council2822+6
Meath County Council2723+4
Tipperary County Council2628-2
Galway County Council2535-10
Kerry County Council2416+8
Wicklow County Council2334-11
South Dublin County Council2220+2
Kilkenny County Council2118+3
Clare County Council1918+1
Offaly County Council1911+8
Cavan County Council1711+6
Laois County Council158+7
Louth County Council1516-1
Roscommon County Council1214-2
Westmeath County Council1217-5
Galway City Council103+7
Monaghan County Council95+4
Longford County Council74+3
Carlow County Council37-4
Wexford County Council32+1
Leitrim County Council24-2

Major projects

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

KindLodgedDecided
Wind energy01
Solar farms92
Battery storage11
Housing schemes33

Lodged this week

Decided this week

Method

Counts are of applications with a received date inside the ISO week (10 August to 16 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, "561 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 33 so far, register shows", 16 August 2026. https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w33

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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w33">561 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 33 so far, register shows</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 16 August 2026.</p>