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Weekly roundup · 24 August to 30 August 2026

298 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 35 so far, register shows

Ireland's 31 planning authorities received 298 planning applications between 24 August and 30 August 2026. Donegal County Council was the busiest council with 35. 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.

298
Applications lodged
-43%
vs previous week (provisional)
7
Major projects lodged
8
Major projects decided

Applications by council

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

Planning authorityThis weekPreviousChange
Donegal County Council3546-11
Cavan County Council2414+10
Galway County Council2337-14
Waterford City and County Council2228-6
Tipperary County Council2124-3
Wicklow County Council2133-12
Laois County Council2017+3
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council1922-3
Westmeath County Council1811+7
Meath County Council1632-16
Limerick County Council1410+4
Kilkenny County Council1116-5
Mayo County Council1020-10
Galway City Council770
Roscommon County Council717-10
Clare County Council630-24
Carlow County Council440
Longford County Council43+1
Fingal County Council334-31
Louth County Council311-8
Monaghan County Council311-8
South Dublin County Council319-16
Leitrim County Council28-6
Offaly County Council213-11

Major projects

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

KindLodgedDecided
Wind energy10
Solar farms35
Housing schemes33

Lodged this week

Decided this week

Method

Counts are of applications with a received date inside the ISO week (24 August to 30 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, "298 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 35 so far, register shows", 30 August 2026. https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w35

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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w35">298 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 35 so far, register shows</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 30 August 2026.</p>