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Weekly roundup · 28 September to 4 October 2026

360 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 40 so far, register shows

Ireland's 31 planning authorities received 360 planning applications between 28 September and 4 October 2026. Cork County Council was the busiest council with 60. 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 5 October 2026. Treat the week-on-week comparison as indicative until then.

360
Applications lodged
-38%
vs previous week (provisional)
12
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
Cork County Council6053+7
Donegal County Council2844-16
Kildare County Council2825+3
Laois County Council2119+2
Tipperary County Council2133-12
Cavan County Council1610+6
Meath County Council1631-15
Wicklow County Council1626-10
Louth County Council1517-2
Roscommon County Council1421-7
Sligo County Council1410+4
Waterford City and County Council1422-8
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council1337-24
Mayo County Council1226-14
Clare County Council1123-12
Galway County Council1140-29
Kerry County Council1018-8
South Dublin County Council919-10
Westmeath County Council615-9
Carlow County Council56-1
Kilkenny County Council519-14
Galway City Council46-2
Leitrim County Council330
Offaly County Council313-10
Limerick County Council228-26
Monaghan County Council210-8
Longford County Council13-2

Major projects

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

KindLodgedDecided
Wind energy10
Solar farms52
Battery storage10
Housing schemes56

Lodged this week

Decided this week

Method

Counts are of applications with a received date inside the ISO week (28 September to 4 October), 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, "360 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 40 so far, register shows", 4 October 2026. https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w40

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<p>Source: <a href="https://www.permission.ie/news/week/2026-w40">360 planning applications lodged across Ireland in week 40 so far, register shows</a>, Permission.ie analysis of the national planning register, 4 October 2026.</p>