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CSO statistical release, 25 June 2013, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 1 2013

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals

Quarter 4 2012	1,420	431	1,851
Quarter 1 2013	1,860	448	2,308
% change	31.0%	3.9%	24.7%

Dwelling units approved up 24.7% in Q1 2013

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In the first quarter of 2013, planning permissions were granted for 2,308 dwelling units, compared with 1,851 units for the fourth quarter of 2012, an increase of 24.7%

The first quarter figures also show that:

Planning Permissions were granted for 1,860 houses in the first quarter of 2013 and 1,420 in the fourth quarter of 2012, an increase of 31.0%. See Table 4.
Planning permissions were granted for 448 apartment units, compared with 431 units for the previous quarter, an increase of 3.9%. See Table 4.
One-off houses accounted for 33.5% of all new dwelling units granted planning permission in this quarter. See Table 4.
The total number of planning permissions granted for all developments was 3,275. This compares with 3,320 in the fourth quarter of 2012, a decrease of 1.4%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 930 thousand square metres in the first quarter of 2013. Of this, 42.4% was for new dwellings, 39.4% for other new constructions and 18.2% for extensions. The total floor area planned increased by 21.9% in comparison with the fourth quarter of 2012. See Table 1.
Planning Permissions for new buildings for Agriculture decreased to 157 this quarter. This compares to 185 permissions in the previous quarter. See Table 3(a).

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted, Q1 2004 - Q1 2013

		Number of Permissions					Total Floor Area (000 sq.m )¹
		New Construction		Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	New Construction		Extension	Total
Period		Dwellings	Other	Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	Dwellings	Other	Extension	Total

2004	Q 1	6,887	1,545	2,820	587	11,839	3,156	940	364	4,461
	Q 2	7,563	1,660	3,511	652	13,386	3,344	1,156	398	4,898
	Q 3	7,100	1,899	4,076	731	13,806	3,172	1,007	467	4,646
	Q 4	5,962	1,613	3,061	605	11,241	3,123	1,155	436	4,714
	Year	27,512	6,717	13,468	2,575	50,272	12,795	4,258	1,665	18,719

2005	Q 1	6,170	1,571	3,028	586	11,355	3,299	985	427	4,711
	Q 2	6,722	2,068	3,845	672	13,307	3,764	1,478	488	5,730
	Q 3	6,485	2,189	4,476	778	13,928	3,219	1,327	530	5,076
	Q 4	5,957	1,871	3,533	653	12,014	2,883	1,167	427	4,478
	Year	25,334	7,699	14,882	2,689	50,604	13,165	4,957	1,872	19,995

2006	Q 1	5,890	1,822	3,575	603	11,890	2,999	1,151	444	4,595
	Q 2	5,595	2,494	4,137	666	12,892	2,737	1,612	475	4,824
	Q 3	6,035	2,965	4,759	756	14,515	2,981	1,764	593	5,337
	Q 4	5,254	3,172	3,883	653	12,962	2,374	1,697	461	4,532
	Year	22,774	10,453	16,354	2,678	52,259	11,091	6,224	1,973	19,288

2007	Q 1	5,709	4,995	4,033	651	15,388	2,952	2,272	570	5,793
	Q 2	5,636	6,229	4,751	695	17,311	3,409	2,668	643	6,719
	Q 3	5,880	5,411	5,210	837	17,338	3,165	2,748	725	6,638
	Q 4	5,028	2,767	3,841	694	12,330	2,680	1,626	529	4,835
	Year	22,253	19,402	17,835	2,877	62,367	12,206	9,314	2,467	23,985

2008	Q 1	4,777	2,104	3,523	651	11,055	2,645	1,359	509	4,514
	Q 2	4,722	2,050	3,743	700	11,215	2,901	1,425	444	4,770
	Q 3	4,253	1,774	4,166	711	10,904	2,263	1,265	470	3,998
	Q 4	3,739	1,616	3,003	619	8,977	2,028	1,102	387	3,517
	Year	17,491	7,544	14,435	2,681	42,151	9,837	5,151	1,810	16,799

2009	Q 1	3,275	1,231	2,499	481	7,486	2,090	870	459	3,419
	Q 2	2,689	1,158	2,405	504	6,756	1,753	872	281	2,906
	Q 3	2,505	1,218	2,433	499	6,655	1,273	915	278	2,466
	Q 4	1,911	908	1,885	433	5,137	812	408	179	1,399
	Year	10,380	4,515	9,222	1,917	26,034	5,928	3,065	1,197	10,190

2010	Q 1	1,768	775	1,617	359	4,519	844	303	181	1,328
	Q 2	1,513	772	1,996	394	4,675	776	553	232	1,561
	Q 3	1,634	866	2,319	453	5,272	727	415	271	1,412
	Q 4	1,432	792	1,778	371	4,373	514	254	186	955
	Year	6,347	3,205	7,710	1,577	18,839	2,861	1,525	870	5,256

2011	Q 1	1,277	700	1,637	405	4,019	599	376	202	1,177
	Q 2	1,264	721	1,866	393	4,244	560	452	209	1,222
	Q 3	1,271	862	1,896	417	4,446	465	288	216	969
	Q 4	955	681	1,312	335	3,283	357	214	137	708
	Year	4,767	2,964	6,711	1,550	15,992	1,982	1,330	765	4,077

2012	Q 1	957	695	1,339	377	3,368	279	283	173	734
	Q 2	942	828	1,549	353	3,672	284	341	199	824
	Q 3	907	1,050	1,680	410	4,047	312	346	219	877
	Q 4	837	834	1,341	308	3,320	325	261	177	763
	Year	3,643	3,407	5,909	1,448	14,407	1,199	1,231	768	3,198

2013	Q1	862	785	1,296	332	3,275	394	366	169	930

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2013, classified by region, county and type of development

Planning Region and County	Number of Permissions					Total Floor Area (000 sq.m)
	New Construction		Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	New Construction		Extension	Total¹
	Dwellings	Other	Extension	Alteration and Conversion	Total	Dwellings	Other	Extension	Total¹

Border, Midland and West
Border, Midland and West	347	241	375	86	1049	90	154	42	285

Border	178	124	190	44	536	48	38	22	108

Cavan	8	9	20	4	41	2	6	3	11
Donegal	104	47	80	22	253	28	8	6	41
Leitrim	7	9	11	1	28	2	6	1	9
Louth	19	21	37	9	86	4	2	6	13
Monaghan	29	21	17	2	69	9	14	4	27
Sligo	11	17	25	6	59	3	2	2	7

Midland	42	53	58	13	166	10	103	7	121

Laois	11	13	19	1	44	2	11	1	15
Longford	5	3	9	4	21	1	0	1	2
Offaly	12	13	15	3	43	3	88	3	94
Westmeath	14	24	15	5	58	3	4	2	10

West	127	64	127	29	347	32	13	12	57

Galway City	10	14	22	10	56	3	1	1	4
Galway²	58	22	45	11	136	14	3	4	22
Mayo	47	17	38	4	106	11	7	5	24
Roscommon	12	11	22	4	49	3	1	2	6

Southern and Eastern	515	544	921	246	2226	305	213	127	645

Dublin	77	114	348	101	640	110	67	22	199

Dublin City	19	53	130	56	258	17	32	7	56
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	13	-	111	2	126	2	-	6	9
Fingal	39	48	72	29	188	87	34	8	129
South Dublin	6	13	35	14	68	4	0	1	6

Mid-East	74	65	120	22	281	37	11	12	60

Kildare	24	17	32	6	79	24	2	3	30
Meath	34	23	48	9	114	8	3	5	17
Wicklow	16	25	40	7	88	4	6	4	14

Mid-West	75	88	95	33	291	19	50	39	107

Clare	29	18	23	7	77	8	1	27	35
Limerick City	-	6	4	8	18	-	0	0	0
Limerick²	32	46	47	16	141	7	38	8	53
North Tipperary	14	18	21	2	55	4	11	4	19

South-East	112	131	169	47	459	92	26	21	139

Carlow	5	7	9	1	22	1	3	1	5
Kilkenny	28	39	36	8	111	62	6	5	73
South Tipperary	13	26	31	5	75	3	5	4	12
Waterford City	1	5	7	8	21	0	0	1	1
Waterford²	15	27	28	5	75	12	2	5	19
Wexford	50	27	58	20	155	13	10	6	29

South-West	177	146	189	43	555	48	59	33	140

Cork City	7	21	22	12	62	2	3	2	7
Cork²	119	81	117	17	334	31	50	25	106
Kerry	51	44	50	14	159	15	6	6	27

State	862	785	1296	332	3275	394	366	169	930

1 For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
2 Excluding cities
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Note: 0 implies less than 500 sq.m

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Table 3(a) Number of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2013, classified by region, type of development and functional category

	Functional Category
Type of Development and Planning Region	Dwellings	Commercial Buildings	Buildings for Agriculture	Industrial Buildings	Govt-, Health and Education	Other Buildings for Social Use	Civil Eng.	Other	Total

New Construction

Border, Midland and Western	347	11	64	18	10	19	44	75	588

Border	178	6	36	10	4	8	23	37	302
Midland	42	-	17	2	2	5	12	15	95
West	127	5	11	6	4	6	9	23	191

Southern and Eastern	515	29	93	24	27	23	144	204	1,059

Dublin	77	13	2	4	7	3	26	59	191
Mid-East	74	2	8	-	6	3	19	27	139
Mid-West	75	1	27	9	4	6	17	24	163
South-East	112	2	29	2	3	5	44	46	243
South West	177	11	27	9	7	6	38	48	323

State	862	40	157	42	37	42	188	279	1,647

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	290	25	10	8	32	10	-	-	375

Border	147	12	4	3	19	5	-	-	190
Midland	43	3	5	1	5	1	-	-	58
West	100	10	1	4	8	4	-	-	127

Southern and Eastern	721	36	29	16	87	32	-	-	921

Dublin	307	13	-	2	21	5	-	-	348
Mid-East	92	2	-	3	18	5	-	-	120
Mid-West	64	5	11	2	8	5	-	-	95
South-East	117	6	13	3	20	10	-	-	169
South West	141	10	5	6	20	7	-	-	189

State	1,011	61	39	24	119	42	-	-	1,296

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	14	46	-	8	10	8	-	-	86

Border	4	28	-	5	4	3	-	-	44
Midland	1	6	-	2	2	2	-	-	13
West	9	12	-	1	4	3	-	-	29

Southern and Eastern	69	104	2	9	32	30	-	-	246

Dublin	42	31	-	2	15	11	-	-	101
Mid-East	9	9	-	-	3	1	-	-	22
Mid-West	3	15	-	3	5	7	-	-	33
South-East	4	29	-	2	6	6	-	-	47
South West	11	20	2	2	3	5	-	-	43

State	83	150	2	17	42	38	-	-	332

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	651	82	74	34	52	37	44	75	1,049

Border	329	46	40	18	27	16	23	37	536
Midland	86	9	22	5	9	8	12	15	166
West	236	27	12	11	16	13	9	23	347

Southern and Eastern	1,305	169	124	49	146	85	144	204	2,226

Dublin	426	57	2	8	43	19	26	59	640
Mid-East	175	13	8	3	27	9	19	27	281
Mid-West	142	21	38	14	17	18	17	24	291
South-East	233	37	42	7	29	21	44	46	459
South West	329	41	34	17	30	18	38	48	555

State	1,956	251	198	83	198	122	188	279	3,275

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q1 2013, classified by region and functional category
	Functional Category
Type of Development and Planning Region	Dwellings	Commercial Buildings	Buildings for Agriculture	Industrial Buildings	Govt., Health and Education	Other Buildings for Social Use	Total¹

New Construction

Border, Midland and Western
Border, Midland and Western	90	5	36	91	15	7	243

Border	48	3	25	4	4	2	86
Midland	10	-	8	84	10	2	113
West	32	2	3	3	1	3	45

Southern and Eastern	305	52	71	30	50	10	518

Dublin	110	42	1	3	17	3	177
Mid-East	37	1	4	-	5	1	48
Mid-West	19	0	26	9	13	1	68
South-East	92	2	16	0	5	2	118
South West	48	6	23	17	10	3	107

State	394	57	107	121	65	17	761

Extension

Border, Midland and Western
Border, Midland and Western	21	4	7	1	8	1	42

Border	11	1	3	0	6	1	22
Midland	3	0	3	0	0	0	7
West	7	3	1	0	1	0	12

Southern and Eastern	40	6	12	16	50	4	127

Dublin	13	2	-	0	5	2	22
Mid-East	6	0	-	1	5	0	12
Mid-West	5	1	5	0	28	0	39
South-East	7	0	6	3	5	1	21
South West	9	2	2	11	8	1	33

State	61	10	19	17	57	6	169

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western
Border, Midland and Western	111	9	43	92	22	8	285

Border	58	4	28	4	10	2	108
Midland	13	0	11	84	10	2	121
West	39	5	4	3	2	4	57

Southern and Eastern	345	57	83	46	100	14	645

Dublin	123	44	1	4	22	5	199
Mid-East	43	1	4	1	10	1	60
Mid-West	24	1	31	10	40	1	107
South-East	99	2	22	3	10	3	139
South West	57	9	25	28	18	4	140

State	455	66	126	137	122	22	930
1 For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
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Table 4 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted for new houses and apartments, Q1 2008- Q1 2013

		All Houses				of which Multi-Development Houses				of which One-Off Houses				Apartments
		Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)	Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)	Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)	Number of Permissions	Number of Units	Floor Area (000 m²)	Average Floor Area per Unit (m²)



2008	Q 1	4,448	13,301	2,191	164.7	436	9,289	1,221	131.4	4,012	4,012	970	241.7	317	5,281	442	83.8
	Q 2	4,393	12,598	2,238	177.7	429	8,634	1,259	145.8	3,964	3,964	979	247.0	317	7,344	632	86.0
	Q 3	3,980	11,532	1,913	165.9	364	7,916	1,012	127.8	3,616	3,616	901	249.1	259	3,761	331	87.9
	Q 4	3,476	10,375	1,717	165.5	314	7,213	918	127.3	3,162	3,162	799	252.6	246	3,392	285	83.9
	Year	16,297	47,806	8,059	168.6	1,543	33,052	4,410	133.4	14,754	14,754	3,649	247.3	1,139	19,778	1,690	85.4

2009	Q 1	3,025	10,256	1,687	164.5	282	7,513	995	132.4	2,743	2,743	692	252.4	237	3,921	382	97.4
	Q 2	2,475	7,739	1,273	164.5	237	5,501	707	128.5	2,238	2,238	566	252.9	202	5,092	467	91.7
	Q 3	2,304	5,362	963	179.6	196	3,254	434	133.3	2,108	2,108	529	251.1	195	3,222	306	94.9
	Q 4	1,763	3,457	669	193.4	139	1,833	252	137.7	1,624	1,624	416	256.3	137	1,507	131	87.0
	Year	9,567	26,814	4,592	171.3	854	18,101	2,388	131.9	8,713	8,713	2,203	252.8	771	13,742	1,286	93.6

2010	Q 1	1,664	3,585	667	186.2	112	2,033	280	137.5	1,552	1,552	388	249.9	92	1,925	163	84.5
	Q 2	1,395	3,043	548	180.0	95	1,743	219	125.4	1,300	1,300	329	253.2	115	2,335	228	97.6
	Q 3	1,537	2,817	552	196.0	94	1,374	192	139.4	1,443	1,443	361	249.9	89	1,824	167	91.6
	Q 4	1,362	2,159	441	204.4	75	872	122	139.7	1,287	1,287	319	248.2	65	790	71	90.4
	Year	5,958	11,604	2,208	190.3	376	6,022	813	135.5	5,582	5,582	1,397	250.3	361	6,874	629	91.5

2011	Q 1	1,205	3,075	528	171.7	78	1,948	246	126.2	1,127	1,127	282	250.3	67	592	65	109.2
	Q 2	1,197	2,599	487	187.3	71	1,473	204	138.8	1,126	1,126	282	250.7	63	711	70	98.9
	Q 3	1,207	1,887	389	206.4	83	763	111	145.9	1,124	1,124	278	247.5	56	625	73	117.5
	Q 4	907	1,537	302	196.3	41	671	86	128.6	866	866	210	249.0	43	619	54	87.9
	Year	4,516	9,098	1,706	187.5	273	4,855	647	133.4	4,243	4,243	1,058	249.4	229	2,547	263	103.2

2012	Q 1	902	1,263	268	212.4	34	395	53	134.7	868	868	215	247.8	49	92	7	80.8
	Q 2	875	1,166	257	220.0	45	336	48	143.2	830	830	208	251.2	62	240	24	101.8
	Q 3	857	1,540	302	196.1	56	739	107	145.4	801	801	194	242.8	47	98	8	85.1
	Q 4	788	1,420	283	199.4	37	669	96	143.2	751	751	187	249.5	46	431	40	92.5
	Year	3,422	5,389	1,110	206.0	172	2,139	305	142.4	3,250	3,250	805	247.8	204	861	80	93.0

2013	Q1	818	1,860	345	185.7	45	1,087	155	142.6	773	773	190	246.2	40	448	46	102.1

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Background Notes

Scope and Background

Details of the scope and background of this series were given in the March 1973 Statistical Bulletin. The Planning and Development Acts 1963 - 2000, imposes certain requirements on builders, developers and all other persons who propose to build or develop and specifies that a planning permission must be obtained from the relevant Planning Authority.

Local authority building (including housing) is exempt in the case where construction takes place in the Authorities’ own area. Therefore, works undertaken by a local authority outside its functional area come within the scope of the Acts, and need planning permission. Planning permission is also needed for development by the State, except where the consultation procedures provided for in the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1993 obtain (e.g. national security, public safety or order, the administration of justice etc). This series only provides coverage where development is subject to the requirement to obtain planning permission.

This series is also available using the interactive tables in Database Direct on www.cso.ie.

Regions

The Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994, established eight new Regions. The CSO has adopted these in place of the old Planning Regions as the basis for the regional breakdown of planning permissions data.

Classification

Planning permissions are classified by type of development, local authority district and by regional authority. A distinction is made between residential and non-residential building and civil engineering.

Coverage

Only final grants of permission or approvals are covered, i.e. only works which involve construction. The following permissions are excluded since they do not entail construction per se:

Changes of a technical and business nature as distinct from a building or structural nature;
Outline permission;
Retention of an existing building;
Changes to existing plan;
Bye-law permission;
Refusals - permissions subsequently granted on appeal by An Bord Pleanála are included.

Rounding

As the figures for floor area have been rounded there may be slight discrepancies between the sum of the constituent items and the totals shown.

Estimates are included where complete details of floor area size are not available.

NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

The regional classifications in this release are based on the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units) classification used by Eurostat. The NUTS3 regions correspond to the eight Regional Authorities established under the Local Government Act, 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order, 1993, which came into operation on 1 January 1994. The NUTS2 regions, which were proposed by Government and agreed by Eurostat in 1999, are groupings of the NUTS3 regions. The composition of the regions is set out below.

Border Midlands and Western NUTS 2 Region		Eastern and Southern NUTS2 Region

Border	Cavan	Dublin	Dublin
	Donegal		Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown
	Leitrim		Fingal
	Louth		South Dubin
	Monaghan
	Sligo	Mid-East	Kildare
			Wicklow
			Meath
Midland	Laois
	Longford	Mid-West	Clare
	Offaly		Limerick City
	Westmeath		Limerick County
			North Tipperary
West	Galway City
	Galway County	South-East	Carlow
	Mayo		Kilkenny
	Roscommon		South Tipperary
			Waterford City
			Waterford County
			Wexford

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Planning Permissions

Quarter 1 2013

Dwelling units approved up 24.7% in Q1 2013

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NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

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