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Weekly roundup · 17 August to 23 August 2026

526 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 34 so far, register shows

Ireland's 31 planning authorities received 526 planning applications between 17 August and 23 August 2026. Donegal County Council was the busiest council with 46. 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.

526
Applications lodged
-6%
vs previous week (provisional)
9
Major projects lodged
11
Major projects decided

Applications by council

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

Planning authorityThis weekPreviousChange
Donegal County Council4636+10
Galway County Council3725+12
Fingal County Council3433+1
Wicklow County Council3323+10
Meath County Council3227+5
Clare County Council3019+11
Kerry County Council2924+5
Cork County Council2843-15
Waterford City and County Council28280
Tipperary County Council2426-2
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council2240-18
Mayo County Council2033-13
South Dublin County Council1922-3
Laois County Council1715+2
Roscommon County Council1712+5
Kilkenny County Council1621-5
Cavan County Council1417-3
Offaly County Council1319-6
Louth County Council1115-4
Monaghan County Council119+2
Westmeath County Council1112-1
Limerick County Council1037-27
Leitrim County Council82+6
Galway City Council710-3
Carlow County Council43+1
Longford County Council37-4
Wexford County Council23-1

Major projects

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

KindLodgedDecided
Wind energy03
Solar farms42
Battery storage11
Housing schemes44
Hotels01

Lodged this week

Decided this week

Method

Counts are of applications with a received date inside the ISO week (17 August to 23 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, "526 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 34 so far, register shows", 23 August 2026. https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w34

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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w34">526 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 34 so far, register shows</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 23 August 2026.</p>