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CSO statistical release, 18 December 2013, 11am

Planning Permissions

Quarter 3 2013

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 3 2012	1,540	98	1,638
Quarter 3 2013	1,252	157	1,409
% change	-18.7%	60.2%	-14.0%

Dwelling units approved down 14% in year

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In the third quarter of 2013, planning permissions were granted for 1,409 dwelling units, compared with 1,638 units for the same period in 2012, a decrease of 14.0%. See Table 4.

The third quarter figures also show that:

Planning Permissions were granted for 1,252 houses in the third quarter of 2013 and 1,540 in the third quarter of 2012, a decrease of 18.7%. See Table 4.
Planning permissions were granted for 157 apartment units, compared with 98 units for the same period in 2012, an increase of 60.2%. See Table 4.
One-off houses accounted for 58.1% 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 3,875. This compares with 4,047 in the third quarter of 2012, a decrease of 4.3%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 823 thousand square metres in the third quarter of 2013. Of this, 34.3% was for new dwellings, 37.9% for other new constructions and 27.8% for extensions. The total floor area planned decreased by 6.2% in comparison with the same quarter in 2012. See Table 1.
Planning Permissions for new buildings for Agriculture decreased to 194 this quarter. This compares to 231 permissions in the same quarter of 2012. See Table 3(a).

X-axis label	Planning Permissions Civil	Planning Permissions Non-Res	Planning Permissions Dwellings
2008	3125	8762	30264
2009	2227	4868	18939
2010	1775	3847	13217
2011	1741	3610	10641
2012	2044	3794	8569

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions Granted, Q1 2004 - Q3 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
	Q2	772	754	1,489	353	3,368	333	331	170	834
	Q3	931	904	1,665	375	3,875	282	312	229	823

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q3 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	353	246	449	104	1152	93	68	58	219

Border	174	98	208	40	520	47	31	30	108

Cavan	18	6	23	2	49	5	0	2	7
Donegal	61	38	80	12	191	18	12	13	43
Leitrim	7	7	21	4	39	2	1	2	5
Louth	35	19	36	14	104	8	6	7	21
Monaghan	36	16	29	4	85	10	10	4	23
Sligo	17	12	19	4	52	4	2	2	8

Midland	59	63	75	19	216	16	15	11	43

Laois	18	21	22	6	67	4	4	5	13
Longford	6	16	10	1	33	2	3	1	6
Offaly	10	11	17	5	43	3	4	2	8
Westmeath	25	15	26	7	73	8	4	3	15

West	120	85	166	45	416	30	22	17	69

Galway City	6	9	23	12	50	1	10	2	13
Galway²	56	40	71	21	188	14	7	6	27
Mayo	43	19	51	4	117	11	4	6	21
Roscommon	15	17	21	8	61	4	1	3	8

Southern and Eastern	578	658	1216	271	2723	189	244	170	603

Dublin	102	146	447	122	817	56	67	34	157

Dublin City	42	83	185	73	383	28	3	17	48
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	19	3	122	3	147	5	0	8	13
Fingal	31	35	72	20	158	20	60	3	84
South Dublin	10	25	68	26	129	3	4	5	13

Mid-East	92	88	139	41	360	31	25	18	74

Kildare	31	24	55	12	122	14	6	9	29
Meath	35	32	41	9	117	10	17	5	32
Wicklow	26	32	43	20	121	7	1	4	13

Mid-West	95	120	136	30	381	23	30	17	69

Clare	31	30	45	6	112	7	4	5	16
Limerick City	2	22	16	12	52	0	2	2	4
Limerick²	38	46	46	7	137	9	18	8	35
North Tipperary	24	22	29	5	80	6	6	3	14

South-East	138	141	208	37	524	35	40	46	121

Carlow	13	7	23	3	46	3	0	6	10
Kilkenny	25	31	52	14	122	7	7	9	23
South Tipperary	21	34	29	2	86	6	13	6	25
Waterford City	-	3	9	5	17	-	0	12	12
Waterford²	22	26	41	3	92	5	11	8	24
Wexford	57	40	54	10	161	14	8	5	28

South-West	151	163	286	41	641	43	82	57	182

Cork City	9	21	48	8	86	3	1	3	8
Cork²	105	83	170	16	374	32	64	35	130
Kerry	37	59	68	17	181	8	17	19	44

State	931	904	1665	375	3875	282	312	229	823

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, Q3 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	353	21	61	6	9	12	49	88	599

Border	174	5	29	2	2	6	16	38	272
Midland	59	2	14	2	2	4	16	23	122
West	120	14	18	2	5	2	17	27	205

Southern and Eastern	578	29	133	19	21	20	134	302	1,236

Dublin	102	12	3	5	6	2	35	83	248
Mid-East	92	2	20	3	4	4	12	43	180
Mid-West	95	2	33	4	4	4	26	47	215
South-East	138	6	49	2	-	4	22	58	279
South West	151	7	28	5	7	6	39	71	314

State	931	50	194	25	30	32	183	390	1,835

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	344	32	13	11	37	12	-	-	449

Border	166	12	3	6	16	5	-	-	208
Midland	47	6	8	3	9	2	-	-	75
West	131	14	2	2	12	5	-	-	166

Southern and Eastern	959	57	51	28	91	30	-	-	1,216

Dublin	395	15	2	8	24	3	-	-	447
Mid-East	106	8	5	-	15	5	-	-	139
Mid-West	105	3	6	6	13	3	-	-	136
South-East	138	9	30	6	15	10	-	-	208
South West	215	22	8	8	24	9	-	-	286

State	1,303	89	64	39	128	42	-	-	1,665

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	22	42	1	3	24	12	-	-	104

Border	11	15	1	1	5	7	-	-	40
Midland	2	9	-	1	6	1	-	-	19
West	9	18	-	1	13	4	-	-	45

Southern and Eastern	89	103	2	7	44	26	-	-	271

Dublin	52	49	-	2	11	8	-	-	122
Mid-East	12	10	-	1	13	5	-	-	41
Mid-West	1	15	1	1	7	5	-	-	30
South-East	8	16	-	1	6	6	-	-	37
South West	16	13	1	2	7	2	-	-	41

State	111	145	3	10	68	38	-	-	375

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	719	95	75	20	70	36	49	88	1,152

Border	351	32	33	9	23	18	16	38	520
Midland	108	17	22	6	17	7	16	23	216
West	260	46	20	5	30	11	17	27	416

Southern and Eastern	1,626	189	186	54	156	76	134	302	2,723

Dublin	549	76	5	15	41	13	35	83	817
Mid-East	210	20	25	4	32	14	12	43	360
Mid-West	201	20	40	11	24	12	26	47	381
South-East	284	31	79	9	21	20	22	58	524
South West	382	42	37	15	38	17	39	71	641

State	2,345	284	261	74	226	112	183	390	3,875

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Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q3 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	93	14	37	4	7	5	161

Border	47	1	22	2	5	2	78
Midland	16	1	9	2	1	2	31
West	30	13	7	0	1	2	52

Southern and Eastern	189	12	116	42	61	12	433

Dublin	56	7	8	21	27	4	124
Mid-East	31	0	12	5	7	1	56
Mid-West	23	1	18	4	5	2	53
South-East	35	1	36	0	-	2	75
South West	43	3	42	12	22	2	125

State	282	27	153	47	69	17	594

Extension

Border, Midland and Western
Border, Midland and Western	24	6	4	9	13	2	58

Border	12	3	1	6	7	1	30
Midland	4	1	3	1	2	0	11
West	8	2	0	2	4	1	17

Southern and Eastern	53	11	27	34	41	5	170

Dublin	18	3	0	7	6	0	34
Mid-East	6	1	2	-	8	1	18
Mid-West	7	0	2	5	2	0	17
South-East	9	1	15	12	6	2	46
South West	13	6	9	9	19	1	57

State	76	17	32	42	54	7	229

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	117	21	42	13	20	7	219
Border, Midland and Western

Border	58	4	23	8	12	3	108
Midland	20	2	12	3	3	2	43
West	38	15	7	2	5	2	69

Southern and Eastern	242	23	143	76	103	17	603

Dublin	74	10	8	28	33	4	157
Mid-East	38	1	14	5	14	2	74
Mid-West	29	1	20	9	8	3	69
South-East	44	2	51	13	6	4	121
South West	57	9	51	21	41	3	182

State	359	44	185	89	123	24	823
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- Q3 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
	Q2	727	1,496	280	187.1	43	812	109	134.5	684	684	171	249.6	40	430	50	116.9
	Q3	864	1,252	266	212.6	45	433	63	146.6	819	819	203	247.5	64	157	12	76.6

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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-East	Carlow
	Galway County		Kilkenny
	Mayo		South Tipperary
	Roscommon		Waterford City
			Waterford County
Mid-West	Clare		Wexford
	Limerick City
	Limerick County
	North Tipperary

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