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CSO statistical release, 25 September 2014, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 2 2014

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 2 2013	1,496	430	1,926
Quarter 2 2014	1,492	114	1,606
% change	-0.3%	-73.5%	-16.6%

Dwelling units approved down 16.6% in year

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In the second quarter of 2014, planning permissions were granted for 1,606 dwelling units, compared with 1,926 units for the same period in 2013, a decrease of 16.6%.

The second quarter figures also show that:

Planning permissions were granted for 1,492 houses in the second quarter of 2014 and 1,496 in the second quarter of 2013, a decrease of 0.3%. See Table 4.
Planning permissions were granted for 114 apartment units, compared with 430 units for the same period in 2013, a decrease of 73.5%. See Table 4.
One-off houses accounted for 46.8% of all new dwelling units granted planning permission this quarter. See Table 4.
The total number of planning permissions granted for all developments was 4,149. This compares with 3,368 in the second quarter of 2013, an increase of 23.2%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 712 thousand square meters in the second quarter of 2014. Of this, 41.6% was for new dwellings, 34.0% for other new construction and 24.4% for extensions. The total floor area planned decreased by 14.6% in comparison with the same quarter in 2013. See Table 1.
Planning permissions for new buildings for Agriculture decreased to 137 this quarter. This compares to 153 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 - Q2 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
	Q 2	875	1,091	1,590	593	4,149	296	242	174	712

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q2 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
Border, Midland and West	285	281	409	116	1,091	80	67	55	203

Border	106	116	207	60	489	30	25	35	90

Cavan	12	23	29	8	72	3	5	7	14
Donegal	31	34	78	14	157	8	3	9	21
Leitrim	1	2	5	5	13	0	0	0	1
Louth	16	18	45	16	95	8	0	13	21
Monaghan	33	17	25	6	81	8	13	4	25
Sligo	13	22	25	11	71	3	3	3	9

Midland	55	56	63	17	191	16	19	6	41

Laois	12	20	19	6	57	3	3	2	7
Longford	7	11	14	2	34	2	0	2	4
Offaly	22	11	10	4	47	7	11	1	19
Westmeath	14	14	20	5	53	4	5	2	11

West	124	109	139	39	411	34	23	14	71

Galway City	6	15	23	12	56	4	7	1	12
Galway²	70	61	56	12	199	17	6	6	30
Mayo	37	17	42	10	106	10	6	4	20
Roscommon	11	16	18	5	50	3	5	2	10

Southern and Eastern	590	810	1,181	477	3,058	217	175	118	510

Dublin	112	206	481	228	1,027	77	71	28	177

Dublin City	49	129	175	176	529	18	13	10	41
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	20	4	115	6	145	9	0	5	14
Fingal	28	42	106	28	204	37	22	7	66
South Dublin	15	31	85	18	149	13	36	6	56

Mid-East	97	104	145	50	396	36	21	15	71

Kildare	26	30	47	25	128	7	4	5	16
Meath	45	37	45	11	138	17	16	6	39
Wicklow	26	37	53	14	130	12	1	3	16

Mid-West	101	116	127	50	394	27	23	11	61

Clare	23	33	45	14	115	5	4	4	14
Limerick	52	54	54	29	189	14	13	4	32
North Tipperary	26	29	28	7	90	7	6	3	16

South-East	108	186	179	66	539	34	38	25	96

Carlow	9	28	22	13	72	2	11	3	16
Kilkenny	25	39	42	23	129	9	6	9	23
South Tipperary	19	22	24	4	69	4	3	3	10
Waterford	17	54	41	10	122	5	6	4	16
Wexford	38	43	50	16	147	14	11	5	30

South-West	172	198	249	83	702	43	22	39	104

Cork City	9	24	37	23	93	1	0	3	4
Cork²	127	112	159	35	433	29	16	29	74
Kerry	36	62	53	25	176	13	6	8	26

State	875	1,091	1,590	593	4,149	296	242	174	712

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
²Excluding cities
- No permissions
Note: 0 implies less than 500sq m

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Table 3(a) Number of Planning Permissions granted, Q2 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	285	14	44	7	6	10	94	106	566

Border	106	3	20	3	1	4	43	42	222
Midland	55	4	10	2	1	2	16	21	111
West	124	7	14	2	4	4	35	43	233

Southern and Eastern	590	48	93	26	11	21	232	379	1,400

Dublin	112	17	2	7	3	4	42	131	318
Mid-East	97	6	13	2	1	4	33	45	201
Mid-West	101	7	23	1	2	5	32	46	217
South-East	108	12	31	7	5	4	60	67	294
South West	172	6	24	9	-	4	65	90	370

State	875	62	137	33	17	31	326	485	1,966

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	289	17	17	14	48	24	-	-	409

Border	148	8	8	9	23	11	-	-	207
Midland	42	4	3	2	9	3	-	-	63
West	99	5	6	3	16	10	-	-	139

Southern and Eastern	991	50	20	18	70	32	-	-	1,181

Dublin	435	17	-	4	17	8	-	-	481
Mid-East	121	6	2	3	8	5	-	-	145
Mid-West	102	8	3	2	9	3	-	-	127
South-East	136	11	7	3	15	7	-	-	179
South West	197	8	8	6	21	9	-	-	249

State	1,280	67	37	32	118	56	-	-	1,590

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	30	41	4	8	21	12	-	-	116

Border	17	24	2	2	11	4	-	-	60
Midland	3	4	2	3	4	1	-	-	17
West	10	13	-	3	6	7	-	-	39

Southern and Eastern	213	156	7	10	61	30	-	-	477

Dublin	124	71	-	4	21	8	-	-	228
Mid-East	17	15	1	1	12	4	-	-	50
Mid-West	16	17	1	3	8	5	-	-	50
South-East	18	29	1	-	11	7	-	-	66
South West	38	24	4	2	9	6	-	-	83

State	243	197	11	18	82	42	-	-	593

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	604	72	65	29	75	46	94	106	1,091

Border	271	35	30	14	35	19	43	42	489
Midland	100	12	15	7	14	6	16	21	191
West	233	25	20	8	26	21	35	43	411

Southern and Eastern	1,794	254	120	54	142	83	232	379	3,058

Dublin	671	105	2	15	41	20	42	131	1,027
Mid-East	235	27	16	6	21	13	33	45	396
Mid-West	219	32	27	6	19	13	32	46	394
South-East	262	52	39	10	31	18	60	67	539
South West	407	38	36	17	30	19	65	90	702

State	2,398	326	185	83	217	129	326	485	4,149

- No permissions

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q2 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	80	13	35	8	6	5	147

Border	30	2	21	2	0	1	55
Midland	16	2	10	4	2	1	35
West	34	9	4	3	5	3	57

Southern and Eastern	217	68	58	16	22	11	391

Dublin	77	51	3	4	11	3	148
Mid-East	36	4	8	0	6	2	57
Mid-West	27	6	13	0	2	1	50
South-East	34	5	17	10	3	4	72
South West	43	2	17	2	-	1	65

State	296	80	93	24	28	16	539

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	20	3	6	3	20	3	55

Border	10	1	4	2	17	2	35
Midland	3	1	1	1	1	0	6
West	8	1	1	0	3	1	14

Southern and Eastern	57	7	12	6	30	6	118

Dublin	20	2	-	1	3	2	28
Mid-East	8	0	0	1	5	1	15
Mid-West	6	2	1	1	2	0	11
South-East	9	2	4	1	7	2	25
South West	13	1	8	2	13	1	39

State	76	11	18	9	50	9	174

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	100	16	41	11	26	8	203


Border	40	3	25	4	17	3	90
Midland	19	3	11	5	2	1	41
West	42	10	5	3	7	5	71

Southern and Eastern	273	75	71	21	52	17	510

Dublin	97	53	3	5	14	5	177
Mid-East	43	5	8	1	11	3	71
Mid-West	33	8	14	1	4	1	61
South-East	43	6	20	10	10	6	96
South West	56	3	25	4	13	2	104

State	373	91	112	33	78	26	712
¹For categories where floor area is a relevant measure
- No Permission
Note: 0 implies less than 500sq m

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Table 4 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted for new houses and apartments, Q1 2009 - Q2 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
	Q 2	809	1,492	283	190.0	57	740	99	133.2	752	752	185	245.9	63	114	10	84.9

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

		Mid -West	Clare
			Limerick
			North Tipperary

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Planning Permissions

Quarter 2 2014

Dwelling units approved down 16.6% in year

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