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Planning Permissions

Quarter 4 2016

	Number of Dwelling Units
	Houses	Apartments	Totals
Quarter 4 2015	2,754	1,263	4,017
Quarter 4 2016	3,245	1,084	4,329
% change	17.8%	-14.2%	7.8%

Dwelling units approved up 7.8% in year

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In the fourth quarter of 2016, planning permissions were granted for 4,329 dwelling units, compared with 4,017 units for the same period in 2015, an increase of 7.8%.

The fourth quarter figures also show that:

Planning Permissions were granted for 3,245 houses in the fourth quarter of 2016 and 2,754 in the fourth quarter of 2015, an increase of 17.8%.
Planning permissions were granted for 1,084 apartment units, compared with 1,263 units for the same period in 2015, a decrease of 14.2%.
One-off houses accounted for 26.2% 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 4,823. This compares with 4,470 in the fourth quarter of 2015, an increase of 7.9%. See Table 1.
Total floor area planned was 1,325 thousand square metres in the fourth quarter of 2016. Of this, 51.6% was for new dwellings, 34.0% for other new constructions and 14.4% for extensions. The total floor area planned decreased by 9.7% in comparison with the same quarter in 2015. See Table 1.
Planning Permissions for new buildings for Agriculture decreased to 308 this quarter. This compares to 420 permissions in the same quarter of 2015. See Table 3(a).

Annualised Planning Permission data for 2016 is available in Tables 5, 6 & 7.

X-axis label	Planning Permissions Civil	Planning Permissions Non-Res	Planning Permissions Dwellings
2012	821	3794	8569
2013	806	3440	8204
2014	1232	3498	9072
2015	1519	4085	9845
2016	1913	5143	11497

Show Table A Summary of Planning Permissions granted for new Dwelling Units

Table A Summary of Planning Permissions granted for new Dwelling Units

Period		All Houses	Annual % change	of which Multi-Development Houses	Annual % change	of which One-off houses	Annual % change	Apartments	Annual % change	Total Dwellings *(All Houses & Apartments)*	Annual % change

2014	Q1	1,446	-22%	672	-38%	774	0%	158	-65%	1,604	-31%
	Q2	1,492	-0%	740	-9%	752	10%	114	-73%	1,606	-17%
	Q3	1,783	42%	962	122%	821	0%	361	130%	2,144	52%
	Q4	1,905	37%	1,156	53%	749	17%	152	-6%	2,057	32%
	Year	6,626	10%	3,530	14%	3,096	6%	785	-34%	7,411	3%

2015	Q1	2,514	74%	1,606	139%	908	17%	699	342%	3,213	100%
	Q2	2,637	77%	1,816	145%	821	9%	473	315%	3,110	94%
	Q3	2,345	32%	1,395	45%	950	16%	359	-1%	2,704	26%
	Q4	2,754	45%	1,841	59%	913	22%	1,263	731%	4,017	95%
	Year	10,250	55%	6,658	89%	3,592	16%	2,794	256%	13,044	76%

2016	Q1	2,534	1%	1,556	-3%	978	8%	557	-20%	3,091	-4%
	Q2	2,340	-11%	1,350	-26%	990	21%	801	69%	3,141	1%
	Q3	4,362	86%	3,233	132%	1,129	19%	1,452	305%	5,814	115%
	Q4	3,245	18%	2,112	15%	1,133	24%	1,084	-14%	4,329	8%
	Year	12,481	22%	8,251	24%	4,230	18%	3,894	39%	16,375	26%

Note: Percentages are rounded for tabular purposes

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Table 1 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q1 2008 - Q4 2016

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

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	4,328	366	379	228	974
	Q 4	878	1,019	1,261	346	3,504	368	214	172	754
	Year	3,606	4,299	5,952	1,957	15,814	1,366	1,064	754	3,184

2015	Q 1	1,066	1,046	1,454	335	3,901	525	243	206	973
	Q 2	991	1,021	1,663	372	4,047	527	321	216	1,065
	Q 3	1,128	1,492	1,942	447	5,009	494	568	293	1,354
	Q 4	1,084	1,565	1,413	408	4,470	601	687	180	1,468
	Year	4,269	5,124	6,472	1,562	17,427	2,147	1,819	895	4,861

2016	Q 1	1,169	1,695	1,680	370	4,914	502	522	256	1,280
	Q 2	1,203	1,758	1,849	426	5,236	554	460	231	1,245
	Q 3	1,403	1,974	2,198	551	6,126	845	629	262	1,736
	Q 4	1,341	1,517	1,510	455	4,823	684	450	191	1,325
	Year	5,116	6,944	7,237	1,802	21,099	2,585	2,062	940	5,586

¹ For categories where floor area is a relevant measure

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Table 2 Summary of Planning Permissions granted, Q4 2016, 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	475	484	390	101	1,450	128	105	57	290

Border	190	207	179	34	610	49	54	25	128

Cavan	20	22	21	-	63	5	4	3	13
Donegal	71	61	58	7	197	19	18	6	43
Leitrim	12	16	9	2	39	3	5	1	9
Louth	43	43	44	12	142	10	8	6	24
Monaghan	33	43	16	4	96	9	19	2	30
Sligo	11	22	31	9	73	3	1	5	9

Midland	111	114	74	21	320	30	18	13	62

Laois	36	39	24	5	104	9	3	5	18
Longford	15	20	15	2	52	4	3	5	12
Offaly	21	36	19	8	84	5	8	3	16
Westmeath	39	19	16	6	80	11	4	1	16

West	174	163	137	46	520	48	32	20	100

Galway City	11	15	14	15	55	6	4	2	12
Galway²	85	95	73	18	271	22	10	11	43
Mayo	60	23	30	9	122	16	6	4	25
Roscommon	18	30	20	4	72	5	12	3	20

Southern and Eastern	866	1,033	1,120	354	3,373	556	346	134	1,035

Dublin	135	262	440	166	1,003	230	114	42	386

Dublin City	47	145	146	84	422	89	31	17	137
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	24	34	111	37	206	22	20	7	48
Fingal	50	52	96	20	218	92	5	8	105
South Dublin	14	31	87	25	157	28	58	10	96

Mid-East	212	140	147	39	538	113	78	21	212

Kildare	69	46	58	17	190	20	5	5	29
Meath	99	52	46	13	210	51	64	12	126
Wicklow	44	42	43	9	138	42	10	5	56

Mid-West	95	145	124	38	402	38	49	18	106

Clare	32	41	38	6	117	7	9	5	22
Limerick	54	77	71	26	228	29	38	11	78
North Tipperary	9	27	15	6	57	2	2	2	7

South-East	171	210	165	48	594	56	48	25	129

Carlow	15	13	12	7	47	4	5	2	11
Kilkenny	45	67	44	12	168	17	14	8	40
South Tipperary	16	53	31	4	104	4	15	5	23
Waterford	36	44	45	13	138	9	4	7	21
Wexford	59	33	33	12	137	21	9	3	33

South-West	253	276	244	63	836	119	56	27	202

Cork City	14	20	34	18	86	4	1	2	7
Cork²	189	211	152	36	588	101	47	19	166
Kerry	50	45	58	9	162	14	9	7	29

State	1,341	1,517	1,510	455	4,823	684	450	191	1,325

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, Q4 2016, 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	475	19	139	18	10	4	118	176	959

Border	190	7	61	8	6	1	53	71	397
Midland	111	4	27	3	1	1	32	46	225
West	174	8	51	7	3	2	33	59	337

Southern and Eastern	866	35	169	48	24	22	255	480	1,899

Dublin	135	13	2	13	7	4	40	183	397
Mid-East	212	4	20	10	4	4	26	72	352
Mid-West	95	6	35	8	1	7	38	50	240
South-East	171	5	52	11	7	1	61	73	381
South West	253	7	60	6	5	6	90	102	529

State	1,341	54	308	66	34	26	373	656	2,858

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	283	27	19	17	34	10	-	-	390

Border	138	12	3	6	18	2	-	-	179
Midland	57	2	5	5	3	2	-	-	74
West	88	13	11	6	13	6	-	-	137

Southern and Eastern	921	61	38	34	53	13	-	-	1,120

Dublin	397	22	-	2	17	2	-	-	440
Mid-East	120	7	5	3	11	1	-	-	147
Mid-West	97	5	9	6	5	2	-	-	124
South-East	119	13	12	10	8	3	-	-	165
South West	188	14	12	13	12	5	-	-	244

State	1,204	88	57	51	87	23	-	-	1,510

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	34	37	1	10	13	6	-	-	101

Border	14	10	1	5	2	2	-	-	34
Midland	6	12	-	2	1	-	-	-	21
West	14	15	-	3	10	4	-	-	46

Southern and Eastern	156	125	9	11	36	17	-	-	354

Dublin	83	57	-	3	17	6	-	-	166
Mid-East	12	15	4	2	5	1	-	-	39
Mid-West	15	14	-	2	6	1	-	-	38
South-East	15	18	5	2	4	4	-	-	48
South West	31	21	-	2	4	5	-	-	63

State	190	162	10	21	49	23	-	-	455

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	792	83	159	45	57	20	118	176	1,450

Border	342	29	65	19	26	5	53	71	610
Midland	174	18	32	10	5	3	32	46	320
West	276	36	62	16	26	12	33	59	520

Southern and Eastern	1,943	221	216	93	113	52	255	480	3,373

Dublin	615	92	2	18	41	12	40	183	1,003
Mid-East	344	26	29	15	20	6	26	72	538
Mid-West	207	25	44	16	12	10	38	50	402
South-East	305	36	69	23	19	8	61	73	594
South West	472	42	72	21	21	16	90	102	836

State	2,735	304	375	138	170	72	373	656	4,823

- No permissions

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Show Table 3b Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q4 2016, classified by region and functional category

Table 3(b) Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, Q4 2016, 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	128	14	63	9	16	3	233

Border	49	2	37	1	13	0	104
Midland	30	5	11	2	0	1	49
West	48	7	15	6	3	2	81

Southern and Eastern	556	91	94	113	35	13	902

Dublin	230	42	2	53	15	3	344
Mid-East	113	1	17	52	6	2	191
Mid-West	38	22	18	4	0	6	88
South-East	56	6	28	4	11	0	104
South West	119	20	30	1	4	2	175

State	684	105	156	122	51	16	1,134

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	22	7	5	14	7	1	57

Border	11	2	1	5	5	0	25
Midland	5	0	2	5	1	0	13
West	7	5	2	4	1	1	20

Southern and Eastern	54	27	11	21	19	2	134

Dublin	18	15	-	1	7	1	42
Mid-East	9	5	1	3	3	0	21
Mid-West	7	1	3	6	1	0	18
South-East	8	3	4	5	4	0	25
South West	12	3	3	5	4	1	27

State	77	34	16	35	26	3	191

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension

Border, Midland and Western	150	21	68	23	24	4	290


Border	60	4	38	6	19	1	128
Midland	35	5	13	7	1	1	62
West	55	12	17	10	4	3	100

Southern and Eastern	610	118	104	134	54	15	1,035

Dublin	248	58	2	54	21	4	386
Mid-East	122	6	18	56	9	2	212
Mid-West	45	23	21	10	1	6	106
South-East	64	9	31	9	15	0	129
South West	131	23	33	6	8	2	202

State	761	139	172	157	78	19	1,325
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- Q4 2016

		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
	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
	Q 4	804	1,905	352	184.5	55	1,156	166	143.2	749	749	186	248.3	69	152	13	85.3
	Year	3,335	6,626	1,261	190.3	239	3,530	503	142.6	3,096	3,096	758	244.8	246	785	69	88.3

2015	Q 1	977	2,514	454	180.6	69	1,606	232	144.3	908	908	222	244.8	82	699	68	97.2
	Q 2	913	2,637	475	180.0	92	1,816	277	152.5	821	821	198	241.0	73	473	47	99.7
	Q 3	1,036	2,345	419	178.6	86	1,395	189	135.2	950	950	230	242.4	85	359	32	89.2
	Q 4	995	2,754	481	174.7	82	1,841	259	140.5	913	913	222	243.5	86	1,263	119	94.2
	Year	3,921	10,250	1,829	178.4	329	6,658	956	143.6	3,592	3,592	873	243.0	326	2,794	266	95.2

2016	Q 1	1,072	2,534	445	175.7	94	1,556	209	134.2	978	978	236	241.8	90	557	50	90.1
	Q 2	1,090	2,340	422	180.3	100	1,350	188	139.0	990	990	234	236.6	107	801	71	88.0
	Q 3	1,273	4,362	703	161.1	144	3,233	434	134.2	1,129	1,129	269	238.4	126	1,452	126	87.0
	Q 4	1,234	3,245	559	172.4	101	2,112	281	133.3	1,133	1,133	278	245.4	102	1,084	104	96.4
	Year	4,669	12,481	2,129	170.6	439	8,251	1,112	134.7	4,230	4,230	1,018	240.6	425	3,894	352	90.3

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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 Western	1,693	2,023	1,799	426	5,941	560	472	280	1,313

Border	690	918	814	186	2,608	215	266	128	609

Cavan	86	140	119	8	353	23	37	28	88
Donegal	246	241	290	44	821	66	52	39	157
Leitrim	24	63	36	9	132	6	11	4	20
Louth	135	138	177	55	505	64	32	25	121
Monaghan	120	223	76	30	449	31	124	17	172
Sligo	79	113	116	40	348	24	11	15	51

Midland	389	496	348	76	1,309	123	91	60	274

Laois	126	159	101	25	411	46	30	17	92
Longford	59	104	56	12	231	15	15	11	41
Offaly	81	133	75	17	306	23	27	19	69
Westmeath	123	100	116	22	361	40	19	14	72

West	614	609	637	164	2,024	222	116	92	430

Galway City	44	40	90	60	234	45	5	14	64
Galway²	278	329	273	54	934	80	60	41	181
Mayo	224	94	187	36	541	71	21	26	118
Roscommon	68	146	87	14	315	25	30	12	66

Southern and Eastern	3,423	4,921	5,438	1,376	15,158	2,025	1,590	659	4,274

Dublin	655	1,134	2,149	650	4,588	868	558	198	1,624

Dublin City	263	631	828	373	2,095	372	193	87	652
Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown	147	157	558	126	988	145	132	36	313
Fingal	185	230	425	70	910	270	95	49	414
South Dublin	60	116	338	81	595	81	138	26	246

Mid-East	702	551	736	159	2,148	413	228	96	737

Kildare	214	187	257	44	702	115	62	27	204
Meath	325	207	261	67	860	192	121	50	363
Wicklow	163	157	218	48	586	107	44	19	170

Mid-West	425	735	598	138	1,896	149	164	102	415

Clare	177	235	220	26	658	60	38	25	123
Limerick	172	308	270	84	834	65	98	54	218
North Tipperary	76	192	108	28	404	24	29	22	75

South-East	677	1,192	809	192	2,870	214	272	116	602

Carlow	60	89	74	23	246	15	16	14	45
Kilkenny	158	380	185	40	763	46	82	25	152
South Tipperary	73	227	112	26	438	17	57	17	90
Waterford	136	240	219	51	646	41	53	38	131
Wexford	250	256	219	52	777	95	64	23	183

South-West	964	1,309	1,146	237	3,656	381	367	147	895

Cork City	79	81	158	62	380	45	9	12	66
Cork²	691	969	741	153	2,554	281	305	106	692
Kerry	194	259	247	22	722	55	53	29	138

State	5,116	6,944	7,237	1,802	21,099	2,585	2,062	940	5,586

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	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	1,693	61	681	56	33	20	565	607	3,716

Border	690	24	303	30	18	8	271	264	1,608
Midland	389	14	143	12	5	4	170	148	885
West	614	23	235	14	10	8	124	195	1,223

Southern and Eastern	3,423	232	1,060	171	89	82	1,348	1,939	8,344

Dublin	655	119	12	52	29	16	160	746	1,789
Mid-East	702	25	97	19	18	14	122	256	1,253
Mid-West	425	16	234	23	5	17	215	225	1,160
South-East	677	37	346	40	16	20	393	340	1,869
South West	964	35	371	37	21	15	458	372	2,273

State	5,116	293	1,741	227	122	102	1,913	2,546	12,060

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	1,308	106	111	55	169	50	-	-	1,799

Border	601	57	56	27	55	18	-	-	814
Midland	267	13	15	12	31	10	-	-	348
West	440	36	40	16	83	22	-	-	637

Southern and Eastern	4,469	282	204	130	275	78	-	-	5,438

Dublin	1,920	114	2	16	81	16	-	-	2,149
Mid-East	608	36	16	12	49	15	-	-	736
Mid-West	443	29	46	24	42	14	-	-	598
South-East	597	44	77	31	47	13	-	-	809
South West	901	59	63	47	56	20	-	-	1,146

State	5,777	388	315	185	444	128	-	-	7,237

Alteration and Conversion

Border, Midland and Western	105	186	8	27	67	33	-	-	426

Border	38	87	4	11	29	17	-	-	186
Midland	17	35	3	6	11	4	-	-	76
West	50	64	1	10	27	12	-	-	164

Southern and Eastern	499	566	20	57	152	82	-	-	1,376

Dublin	267	267	-	23	65	28	-	-	650
Mid-East	44	65	6	7	21	16	-	-	159
Mid-West	45	57	2	9	17	8	-	-	138
South-East	42	95	10	7	23	15	-	-	192
South West	101	82	2	11	26	15	-	-	237

State	604	752	28	84	219	115	-	-	1,802

All Developments

Border, Midland and Western	3,106	353	800	138	269	103	565	607	5,941

Border	1,329	168	363	68	102	43	271	264	2,608
Midland	673	62	161	30	47	18	170	148	1,309
West	1,104	123	276	40	120	42	124	195	2,024

Southern and Eastern	8,391	1,080	1,284	358	516	242	1,348	1,939	15,158

Dublin	2,842	500	14	91	175	60	160	746	4,588
Mid-East	1,354	126	119	38	88	45	122	256	2,148
Mid-West	913	102	282	56	64	39	215	225	1,896
South-East	1,316	176	433	78	86	48	393	340	2,870
South West	1,966	176	436	95	103	50	458	372	3,656

State	11,497	1,433	2,084	496	785	345	1,913	2,546	21,099

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Table 7 Total Floor Area Planned (000 sq.m) in new construction and extensions, 2016, 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	560	39	335	44	43	11	1,032

Border	215	10	196	28	30	2	481
Midland	123	12	65	9	2	3	214
West	222	16	74	8	12	6	338

Southern and Eastern	2,025	550	595	226	165	53	3,614

Dublin	868	388	12	102	50	6	1,426
Mid-East	413	35	76	65	32	19	641
Mid-West	149	34	103	14	5	9	313
South-East	214	19	188	32	26	7	486
South West	381	73	217	13	53	11	748

State	2,585	589	931	270	209	64	4,647

Extension

Border, Midland and Western	95	41	35	43	57	10	280

Border	42	23	20	22	19	3	128
Midland	22	3	6	13	13	4	60
West	32	15	9	8	25	3	92

Southern and Eastern	262	97	80	85	121	15	659

Dublin	91	47	6	4	44	5	198
Mid-East	42	10	9	7	25	3	96
Mid-West	32	16	14	22	17	2	102
South-East	39	10	23	25	18	1	116
South West	58	14	27	27	17	4	147

State	358	138	115	127	178	25	940

Total New Construction and Extension
Total New Construction and Extension
	655	80	370	86	100	21	1,313
Border, Midland and Western

Border	257	33	216	49	49	4	609
Midland	145	15	71	21	15	7	274
West	254	32	83	16	36	10	430

Southern and Eastern	2,287	646	675	310	287	68	4,274

Dublin	959	435	18	107	94	11	1,624
Mid-East	455	45	85	72	57	22	737
Mid-West	181	49	117	36	21	11	415
South-East	253	29	211	56	44	9	602
South West	439	87	244	40	70	15	895

State	2,942	726	1,045	397	387	89	5,586
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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 StatBank on the CSO website.

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		Kerry
	Roscommon
		South-East	Carlow
			Kilkenny
			South Tipperary
			Waterford
			Wexford

		Mid -West	Clare
			Limerick
			North Tipperary

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