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Planning Permissions

Quarter 3 2014

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 3 2013	1,252	157	1,409
Quarter 3 2014	1,783	361	2,144
% change	42.4%	129.9%	52.2%

Dwelling units approved up 52.2% in year

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In the third quarter of 2014, planning permissions were granted for 2,144 dwelling units, compared with 1,409 units for the same period in 2013, an increase of 52.2%.

The third quarter figures also show that:

Planning permissions were granted for 1,783 houses in the third quarter of 2014 and 1,252 in the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 42.4%. See Table 4.
Planning permissions were granted for 361 apartment units, compared with 157 units for the same period in 2013, an increase of 129.9%. See Table 4.
One-off houses accounted for 38.3% of all new dwelling units granted planning permission this quarter. See Table 4.
The total number of planning permissions granted for all developments was 4,238. This compares with 3,875 in the third quarter of 2013, an increase of 9.4%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 974 thousand square meters in the third quarter of 2014. Of this, 37.7% was for new dwellings, 38.9% for other new construction and 23.4% for extensions. The total floor area planned increased by 18.3% in comparison with the same quarter in 2013. See Table 1.
Planning permissions for new buildings for Agriculture increased to 191 this quarter. This compares to 194 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 2006 - Q3 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

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
	Q 3	962	1,183	1,705	478	4,238	366	379	228	974

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q3 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	313	294	422	99	1,128	88	61	59	207

Border	137	138	196	33	504	35	36	28	99

Cavan	15	21	25	5	66	4	10	8	22
Donegal	53	38	75	14	180	13	8	5	27
Leitrim	3	4	8	1	16	1	0	3	4
Louth	22	19	41	6	88	7	1	5	14
Monaghan	24	23	18	3	68	6	13	3	21
Sligo	20	33	29	4	86	4	3	4	11

Midland	48	54	78	22	202	12	7	13	32

Laois	9	25	22	11	67	2	3	2	8
Longford	6	6	16	2	30	1	2	3	6
Offaly	17	11	22	8	58	5	1	3	9
Westmeath	16	12	18	1	47	4	1	4	9

West	128	102	148	44	422	41	18	18	77

Galway City	5	12	18	19	54	2	2	2	6
Galway²	68	48	64	5	185	18	7	9	33
Mayo	41	17	45	4	107	10	4	4	18
Roscommon	14	25	21	16	76	11	5	3	20

Southern and Eastern	649	889	1,283	379	3,200	278	318	170	767

Dublin	124	241	525	167	1,057	105	138	54	297

Dublin City	52	127	221	130	530	31	0	18	49
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	27	17	125	2	171	29	54	8	92
Fingal	31	65	105	20	221	38	28	9	75
South Dublin	14	32	74	15	135	7	56	19	81

Mid-East	116	94	166	56	432	41	23	18	82

Kildare	40	28	53	29	150	11	3	6	20
Meath	48	38	63	18	167	23	15	8	47
Wicklow	28	28	50	9	115	7	5	4	15

Mid-West	73	97	111	21	302	24	21	15	60

Clare	39	27	34	7	107	11	4	3	18
Limerick	22	37	46	10	115	9	13	5	27
North Tipperary	12	33	31	4	80	3	4	7	15

South-East	138	197	211	56	602	43	54	42	139

Carlow	13	13	16	2	44	4	2	1	6
Kilkenny	29	53	34	13	129	8	14	3	26
South Tipperary	20	38	29	5	92	5	18	4	27
Waterford	29	38	65	17	166	7	4	12	23
Wexford	47	43	67	19	171	19	16	22	57

South-West	198	260	270	79	807	66	82	41	188

Cork City	10	26	33	19	88	3	26	3	31
Cork²	143	166	179	32	520	50	46	29	125
Kerry	45	68	58	28	199	13	10	9	32

State	962	1,183	1,705	478	4,328	366	379	228	974

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

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Table 3(a) Number of Planning Permissions granted, Q3 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	313	16	56	9	9	14	88	102	607

Border	137	8	29	5	3	6	40	47	275
Midland	48	2	10	-	1	6	16	19	102
West	128	6	17	4	5	2	32	36	230

Southern and Eastern	649	38	135	32	20	12	240	412	1,538

Dublin	124	12	-	8	7	4	48	162	365
Mid-East	116	6	8	7	6	1	24	42	210
Mid-West	73	5	29	1	1	-	31	30	170
South-East	138	4	46	6	3	3	61	74	335
South West	198	11	52	10	3	4	76	104	458

State	962	54	191	41	29	26	328	514	2,145

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	303	25	16	15	49	14	-	-	422

Border	136	14	12	6	24	4	-	-	196
Midland	53	5	2	3	12	3	-	-	78
West	114	6	2	6	13	7	-	-	148

Southern and Eastern	1,039	54	50	34	80	26	-	-	1,283

Dublin	474	17	-	5	21	8	-	-	525
Mid-East	137	5	3	3	16	2	-	-	166
Mid-West	79	6	10	5	8	3	-	-	111
South-East	145	11	18	10	16	11	-	-	211
South West	204	15	19	11	19	2	-	-	270

State	1,342	79	66	49	129	40	-	-	1,705

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	21	44	1	3	14	16	-	-	99

Border	4	19	1	1	4	4	-	-	33
Midland	8	5	-	-	3	6	-	-	22
West	9	20	-	2	7	6	-	-	44

Southern and Eastern	137	135	8	17	49	33	-	-	379

Dublin	81	56	-	4	18	8	-	-	167
Mid-East	10	23	4	3	6	10	-	-	56
Mid-West	8	5	-	1	6	1	-	-	21
South-East	12	22	4	2	7	9	-	-	56
South West	26	29	-	7	12	5	-	-	79

State	158	179	9	20	63	49	-	-	478

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	637	85	73	27	72	44	88	102	1,128

Border	277	41	42	12	31	14	40	47	504
Midland	109	12	12	3	16	15	16	19	202
West	251	32	19	12	25	15	32	36	422

Southern and Eastern	1,825	227	193	83	149	71	240	412	3,200

Dublin	679	85	-	17	46	20	48	162	1,057
Mid-East	263	34	15	13	28	13	24	42	432
Mid-West	160	16	39	7	15	4	31	30	302
South-East	295	37	68	18	26	23	61	74	602
South West	428	55	71	28	34	11	76	104	807

State	2,462	312	266	110	221	115	328	514	4,328

- No permissions

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q3 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	88	4	34	6	13	4	149

Border	35	2	20	5	8	1	71
Midland	12	0	5	-	0	1	19
West	41	2	9	1	5	1	59

Southern and Eastern	278	107	84	24	98	5	597

Dublin	105	66	-	9	62	1	243
Mid-East	41	2	3	3	14	0	64
Mid-West	24	6	14	0	2	-	45
South-East	43	4	28	2	18	3	97
South West	66	30	39	10	2	1	148

State	366	111	118	30	111	9	746

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	20	5	6	10	15	2	59

Border	8	3	4	5	7	1	28
Midland	4	1	1	2	4	1	13
West	8	1	1	3	4	1	18

Southern and Eastern	58	23	28	29	25	7	170

Dublin	21	15	-	2	12	3	54
Mid-East	9	1	1	1	4	2	18
Mid-West	6	0	4	3	1	1	15
South-East	9	2	9	18	3	1	42
South West	14	4	14	5	4	0	41

State	79	28	34	39	40	9	228

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	108	8	40	16	28	6	207


Border	43	5	24	10	14	2	99
Midland	16	1	6	2	5	2	32
West	49	3	10	4	9	2	77

Southern and Eastern	337	130	112	52	123	12	767

Dublin	126	81	-	12	74	4	297
Mid-East	50	3	4	4	19	2	82
Mid-West	29	6	18	3	3	1	60
South-East	52	6	37	20	21	3	139
South West	79	34	53	14	6	1	188

State	445	139	152	69	151	18	974
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 - Q3 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
	Q 3	887	1,783	330	185.2	66	962	134	138.9	821	821	197	239.6	65	361	31	86.9

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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-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 3 2014

Dwelling units approved up 52.2% in year

Background Notes

Scope and Background

Regions

Classification

Coverage

Rounding

NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions

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