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CSO statistical release, 19 June 2014, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 1 2014

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 1 2013	1,860	448	2,308
Quarter 1 2014	1,446	158	1,604
% change	-22.3%	-64.7%	-30.5%

Dwelling units approved down 30.5% in year

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In the first quarter of 2014, planning permissions were granted for 1,604 dwelling units, compared with 2,308 units for the same period in 2013, a decrease of 30.5%.

The first quarter figures also show that:

Planning permissions were granted for 1,446 houses in the first quarter of 2014 and 1,860 in the first quarter of 2013, a decrease of 22.3%. See Table 4.
Planning permissions were granted for 158 apartment units, compared with 448 units for the same period in 2013, a decrease of 64.7%. See Table 4.
One-off houses accounted for 48.3% of all new dwelling units granted planning permission this quarter. See Table 4.
The total number of planning permissions granted for all developments was 3,833. This compares with 3,275 in the first quarter of 2013, an increase of 17.0%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 744 thousand square meters in the first quarter of 2014. Of this, 45.0% was for new dwellings, 30.8% for other new construction and 24.2% for extensions. The total floor area planned decreased by 20.0% in comparison with the same quarter in 2013. See Table 1.
Planning permissions for new buildings for Agriculture decreased to 93 this quarter. This compares to 157 permissions in the same quarter of 2013. See Table 3(a).

X-axis label	Planning Permissions Civil	Planning Permissions Non-Res	Planning Permissions Dwellings
2009	2227	4868	18939
2010	1775	3847	13217
2011	1741	3665	10586
2012	2044	3794	8569
2013	2257	3440	8204

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted, Q1 2005 - Q1 2014

		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

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	Q 1	862	785	1,296	332	3,275	394	366	169	930
	Q 2	772	754	1,489	353	3,368	333	331	170	834
	Q 3	931	904	1,665	375	3,875	282	312	229	823
	Q 4	751	988	1,245	399	3,383	295	297	159	751
	Year	3,316	3,431	5,695	1,459	13,901	1,305	1,306	727	3,338

2014	Q 1	891	1,006	1,396	540	3,833	336	229	180	744

1 For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2014, 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	306	220	319	112	957	81	45	63	190
Border, Midland and West

Border	118	94	148	42	402	29	16	22	67

Cavan	12	12	17	5	46	3	1	2	6
Donegal	35	26	49	4	114	8	2	6	16
Leitrim	1	6	6	2	15	0	0	1	1
Louth	20	26	46	19	111	4	5	8	17
Monaghan	35	10	9	6	60	9	7	2	18
Sligo	15	14	21	6	56	5	0	3	8

Midland	63	54	57	21	195	16	14	14	44

Laois	19	16	14	10	59	5	5	2	12
Longford	5	10	10	2	27	1	1	7	8
Offaly	19	13	9	2	43	5	3	3	12
Westmeath	20	15	24	7	66	5	6	2	12

West	125	72	114	49	360	36	15	28	79

Galway City	5	11	14	11	41	2	0	1	2
Galway²	69	37	49	12	167	18	4	4	26
Mayo	35	8	30	20	93	12	2	21	35
Roscommon	16	16	21	6	59	5	9	2	16

Southern and Eastern	585	786	1077	428	2876	254	184	116	554

Dublin	103	283	414	201	1001	126	22	31	179

Dublin City	35	189	183	155	562	39	19	11	69
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	32	9	94	-	135	42	1	7	51
Fingal	25	53	69	30	177	31	0	7	39
South Dublin	11	32	68	16	127	14	1	5	20

Mid-East	87	81	145	44	357	29	72	15	117

Kildare	17	34	51	21	123	10	1	5	16
Meath	44	29	49	6	128	12	4	7	23
Wicklow	26	18	45	17	106	7	68	3	78

Mid-West	95	101	108	49	353	25	19	13	57

Clare	31	24	38	21	114	8	8	4	20
Limerick City	-	6	14	8	28	-	0	1	1
Limerick²	46	39	32	11	128	11	9	3	23
North Tipperary	18	32	24	9	83	6	2	4	12

South-East	132	150	183	53	518	32	34	31	97

Carlow	6	13	13	7	39	3	3	3	9
Kilkenny	23	34	51	16	124	6	0	9	16
South Tipperary	19	34	21	8	82	5	6	2	13
Waterford City	1	1	5	-	7	0	0	0	1
Waterford²	18	39	37	7	101	4	17	5	26
Wexford	65	29	56	15	165	15	7	12	34

South-West	168	171	227	81	647	42	36	26	105

Cork City	7	19	38	25	89	1	0	5	6
Cork²	110	98	128	26	362	28	35	16	79
Kerry	51	54	61	30	196	13	1	6	20

State	891	1006	1396	540	3833	336	229	180	744

1 For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
2 Excluding cities
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Table 3(a) Number of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2014, 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	306	7	33	8	6	5	64	97	526

Border	118	4	15	4	1	3	26	41	212
Midland	63	3	9	2	1	-	14	25	117
West	125	-	9	2	4	2	24	31	197

Southern and Eastern	585	26	60	17	12	11	230	430	1,371

Dublin	103	15	-	7	6	2	75	178	386
Mid-East	87	1	9	-	-	3	23	45	168
Mid-West	95	3	10	1	2	4	22	59	196
South-East	132	1	24	3	4	1	52	65	282
South West	168	6	17	6	-	1	58	83	339

State	891	33	93	25	18	16	294	527	1,897

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	224	18	11	15	36	15	-	-	319

Border	100	8	6	8	19	7	-	-	148
Midland	39	4	4	3	4	3	-	-	57
West	85	6	1	4	13	5	-	-	114

Southern and Eastern	867	56	45	29	61	19	-	-	1,077

Dublin	365	19	-	8	19	3	-	-	414
Mid-East	116	8	5	-	12	4	-	-	145
Mid-West	86	3	8	4	5	2	-	-	108
South-East	123	13	23	9	12	3	-	-	183
South West	177	13	9	8	13	7	-	-	227

State	1,091	74	56	44	97	34	-	-	1,396

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	32	43	3	8	19	7	-	-	112

Border	14	14	2	4	4	4	-	-	42
Midland	5	7	1	3	2	3	-	-	21
West	13	22	-	1	13	-	-	-	49

Southern and Eastern	235	121	3	8	45	16	-	-	428

Dublin	114	51	-	4	23	9	-	-	201
Mid-East	26	16	-	-	1	1	-	-	44
Mid-West	28	14	1	1	4	1	-	-	49
South-East	21	16	1	3	11	1	-	-	53
South West	46	24	1	-	6	4	-	-	81

State	267	164	6	16	64	23	-	-	540

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	562	68	47	31	61	27	64	97	957

Border	232	26	23	16	24	14	26	41	402
Midland	107	14	14	8	7	6	14	25	195
West	223	28	10	7	30	7	24	31	360

Southern and Eastern	1,687	203	108	54	118	46	230	430	2,876

Dublin	582	85	-	19	48	14	75	178	1,001
Mid-East	229	25	14	-	13	8	23	45	357
Mid-West	209	20	19	6	11	7	22	59	353
South-East	276	30	48	15	27	5	52	65	518
South West	391	43	27	14	19	12	58	83	647

State	2,249	271	155	85	179	73	294	527	3,833

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q1 2014, 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	81	1	19	11	12	1	126

Border	29	0	10	1	3	1	45
Midland	16	1	7	5	2	-	30
West	36	-	2	5	7	0	51

Southern and Eastern	254	90	52	6	33	3	438

Dublin	126	11	-	0	11	0	148
Mid-East	29	67	5	-	-	1	101
Mid-West	25	2	5	0	11	2	44
South-East	32	0	22	1	11	0	66
South West	42	11	20	5	-	0	79

State	336	91	71	18	45	5	565

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	15	4	4	27	10	3	63

Border	7	1	2	3	7	2	22
Midland	3	2	2	5	2	0	14
West	6	1	0	19	1	1	28

Southern and Eastern	50	8	14	22	18	4	116

Dublin	17	2	-	4	7	1	31
Mid-East	7	2	2	-	3	1	15
Mid-West	6	0	2	2	1	1	13
South-East	8	3	7	11	2	0	31
South West	11	1	3	5	5	1	26

State	65	13	18	49	28	7	180

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	97	5	23	38	22	4	190


Border	36	1	11	4	10	3	67
Midland	19	2	9	10	4	0	44
West	42	1	2	24	8	1	79

Southern and Eastern	304	99	66	28	51	7	554

Dublin	143	13	-	4	18	1	179
Mid-East	36	69	7	-	3	2	117
Mid-West	31	2	7	2	12	2	57
South-East	40	3	29	12	13	0	97
South West	54	12	23	10	5	1	105

State	401	104	89	67	73	11	744
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Table 4 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted for new houses and apartments, Q1 2009 - Q1 2014

		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)



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	Q 1	818	1,860	345	185.7	45	1,087	155	142.6	773	773	190	246.2	40	448	46	102.1
	Q 2	727	1,496	280	187.1	43	812	109	134.5	684	684	171	249.6	40	430	50	116.9
	Q 3	864	1,252	266	212.6	45	433	63	146.6	819	819	203	247.5	64	157	12	76.6
	Q 4	694	1,394	270	193.6	54	754	109	144.1	640	640	161	252.0	53	162	15	93.6
	Year	3,103	6,002	1,161	193.5	187	3,086	436	141.4	2,916	2,916	725	248.6	197	1,197	123	103.0

2014	Q 1	835	1,446	296	204.6	61	672	106	157.3	774	774	190	245.7	49	158	15	96.9

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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 NUTS 2 Region

Border	Cavan	Dublin	Dublin
	Donegal		Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown
	Leitrim		Fingal
	Louth		South Dubin
	Monaghan
	Sligo

Midland	Laois	Mid-East	Kildare
	Longford		Meath
	Offaly		Wicklow
	Westmeath

West	Galway City	South-East	Carlow
	Galway County		Kilkenny
	Mayo		South Tipperary
	Roscommon		Waterford City
			Waterford County
			Wexford

		Mid -West	Clare
			Limerick City
			Limerick County
			North Tipperary

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Planning Permissions

Quarter 1 2014

Dwelling units approved down 30.5% in year

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NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

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