Records

Development plans by council

What PPI holds about each council’s development plan — the design guidance and rural housing rules we have read from it, the documents on file, and the zoning in the national dataset. The council’s own plan is always the authority.

Design guidance: 30 of 31; councils, read from the plan
Rural housing rules: 14 of 31; councils, read from the plan
Plan documents: 57; current, on file
Searchable passages: 13,831; for the planning assistant

The National Planning Framework, the three regional strategies, the ministerial planning guidelines and council plans are in the policy library: searchable page by page, with a citation for every page.

Development plan material held for each council, listed alphabetically
Council	Design guidance	Rural housing	Plan documents	Searchable passages	Zoning areas
Carlow County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Chapter 13 Rural Design Guide (opens in a new tab)	233	3,402
Cavan County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: appendix seven rural dwelling design guide (opens in a new tab) Development plan: cdp chapter 12 (opens in a new tab)	58	1,371
Clare County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: clare rural house design guide 5486 (opens in a new tab)	1,322	7,065
Cork City Council	—	—	—	—	1,088
Cork County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: Cork Rural Design Guide (opens in a new tab) Development plan: rural housing pdf (opens in a new tab) Development plan (opens in a new tab) Variation: Adopted Variation No.1 of the Cork County Development Plan 2022-2028 - 31st July 2026 (opens in a new tab) and 2 more	2,165	1,588
Donegal County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: appendix b building a house in rural donegal a location siting design guide (opens in a new tab)	—	Not in dataset
Dublin City Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: draft dublin city development plan 2022 2028 chapter 15 development standards 21 11 21 (opens in a new tab)	54	6,944
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance (opens in a new tab) Variation: 0/0 Zone (opens in a new tab) Variation: 10 (opens in a new tab) Variation: 3 (opens in a new tab) and 4 more	46	2,817
Fingal County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: Chapter 14 0 (opens in a new tab)	4	5,688
Galway City Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: GCC Development Plan Appendices (opens in a new tab) Design guidance: GCC Development Plan Chapter11 (opens in a new tab)	—	975
Galway County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Design Guidelines for Single Rural Housing (opens in a new tab) Development plan: Galway County Development Plan 2022-2028 (opens in a new tab)	920	5,561
Kerry County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: 5 Rural Housing (opens in a new tab) Design guidance: Rural Housing Design Guidelines (opens in a new tab) Development plan: Kerry County Development Plan (opens in a new tab)	480	2,263
Kildare County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: 4. Rural House Design Guide (opens in a new tab)	34	3,295
Kilkenny County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: county kilkenny rural design guide (opens in a new tab)	4	836
Laois County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Appendix 7 Rural Design Guide of Adopted LCDP 2021 2027 0 (opens in a new tab)	18	2,440
Leitrim County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: design guide for the siting and design of single houses within leitrim countryside (opens in a new tab)	7	986
Limerick City and County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: 12 chapter 11 development management standards (opens in a new tab) Design guidance: rural design advice for individual houses july 2012 (opens in a new tab)	2,287	5,531
Longford County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: volume 1 written statement compressed (opens in a new tab) Design guidance: volume 2 appendices compressed (opens in a new tab)	241	972
Louth County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: building sensitively and sustainably in county louth copy (opens in a new tab)	37	5,057
Mayo County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Mayo Rural Housing Design Guidelines (opens in a new tab) Variation: AA-Screening-Report-Variation-No-1-Mayo-CDP (opens in a new tab) Variation: Chief Executive's Report on the Material Amendments of Draft Mayo County Development Plan (opens in a new tab) Variation: (no text) (opens in a new tab) and 3 more	1,076	1,097
Meath County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: appendix 15 rural design guide 0 (opens in a new tab) Development plan: 09. Rural Development Strategy (opens in a new tab)	18	2,205
Monaghan County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: MonaghanDesignGuide2008 (opens in a new tab)	903	801
Offaly County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Rural Design Guidelines for Offaly (opens in a new tab)	369	2,593
Roscommon County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: rural design guidelines (opens in a new tab)	4	264
Sligo County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: Chapter 33 Development management standards (opens in a new tab)	2	3,395
South Dublin County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: chapter 6 housing (opens in a new tab) Design guidance: Volume 1 Draft South Dublin County Development Plan 2022 2028 0 (opens in a new tab)	4	5,478
Tipperary County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: Volume 3 Rural Housing Design Guide (opens in a new tab)	—	3,846
Waterford City and County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Waterford City and County Development Plan 2022 2028 Vol 2 (opens in a new tab)	202	3,646
Westmeath County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: ruraldesignguidelines (opens in a new tab)	2,264	2,808
Wexford County Council	Design guide	Rural housing	Design guidance: Wexford CC Development Plan Vol 1 0 (opens in a new tab)	1,079	483
Wicklow County Council	Design guide	—	Design guidance: Appendix 2 Single Rural Houses Design Guidelines (opens in a new tab)	—	2,183

A dash means PPI has not read that material from the council’s plan — not that the plan lacks it. Design guidance and rural housing rules are extracted from the plan documents and summarised on each county’s page; the plan itself is the authority. “Searchable passages” are the plan sections the planning assistant can quote. “Zoning areas” counts the current zones the Department’s national dataset holds for the council.

Source council development plans; zoning: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage GZT dataset · Licence Irish Public Sector Data, CC BY 4.0Always confirm against the council’s current development plan.