Carlow: why applications are refused, and the conditions permissions carry
Counted from Carlow’s own decision notices: 316 of its 327 decisions made from 25 October 2025 to 25 October 2026 (97%). Findings, not verdicts — each figure is a share of the notices read.
- 316
- of 327 decisions, last 12 months
- 26
- of 31 refused or part refused
- 288
- of 296 granted or part granted
- 11
- the median permission read
Why applications are refused
Grounds cited in refusals
The conditions permissions carry
Kinds of condition attached
A notice counts once for each theme it cites, however often it cites it — the share of permissions given at least one condition of that kind. A notice can cite several, so the shares do not add up to 100%. The 12 most common of 20 are drawn; the table has them all.
Show the numbers
| Theme | Notices | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Built as per the plans and particulars | 288 | 100% |
| Restrictions on use or further development | 281 | 98% |
| Entrance, sightlines, roads and parking | 273 | 95% |
| Surface water and drainage (SuDS) | 269 | 93% |
| Protecting neighbours (screening, glazing, noise, light) | 263 | 91% |
| Materials, finishes and design changes | 261 | 91% |
| Construction hours and management | 244 | 85% |
| Other | 237 | 82% |
| Development contributions and security bonds | 205 | 71% |
| Waste management | 153 | 53% |
| Landscaping, hedgerows, trees and boundaries | 142 | 49% |
| On-site wastewater treatment system | 130 | 45% |
| Uisce Éireann water and sewer connections | 95 | 33% |
| Occupancy and local-need conditions | 84 | 29% |
| Ecology (bats, nesting birds, AA mitigation) | 55 | 19% |
| Archaeology and built heritage | 36 | 13% |
| Duration or temporary permission | 18 | 6% |
| Energy, EV charging and climate | 10 | 3% |
| Part V social housing | 9 | 3% |
| Estate completion, lighting, naming and taking in charge | 7 | 2% |
By type of development
| Type | Notices read | Refusals: most cited | Permissions: most common conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension | 6398% of decisions | — |
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| New dwelling | 8299% of decisions | 15 read — too few |
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| Retention | 3989% of decisions | — |
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Shares are of the refusals or permissions whose notice was read. The conditions column leaves out “built as per the plans and particulars”, which nearly every permission carries. A group with fewer than 30 notices read shows its count and no breakdown.
By town
Towns with at least 30 refusals or permissions read, listed alphabetically.
| Town | Notices read | Refusals: most cited | Permissions: most common conditions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 6191% of decisions | 1 read — too few |
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Shares are of the refusals or permissions whose notice was read. The conditions column leaves out “built as per the plans and particulars”, which nearly every permission carries. A group with fewer than 30 notices read shows its count and no breakdown.
About the figures
PPI’s reader reads each decision notice, finds every refusal reason and condition in it word for word, and tags each with what it is about from a fixed list. A figure counts notices: a refusal citing flood risk in two of its reasons counts once for flood risk. Reasons and conditions the reader could not find word for word are not counted.
What a council refuses for, and the conditions it attaches, depend on what it was asked to decide as much as on the council. A group with fewer than 30 notices read shows its count and no breakdown. Every council read →
Source Carlow's decision notices, read and counted by PPI; no notice text is reproduced hereAlways confirm a decision against the council’s own register.