Planning register

Athy

Planning applications inside the Athy, Co. Kildare settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications: 342
County: Kildare

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Athy contains a total of 342 applications, with recent lodgements showing 27 in 2023, 37 in 2024, and 39 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 260 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in an 88% grant rate with 229 granted, 31 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are change of use at 17%, extension at 16%, retention at 14%, and housing estate at 12%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include projects such as a change of use for school stable buildings, a warehouse demolition for a terraced building, and the installation of a trade effluent waste water treatment system.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Grant rate

88%

of 260 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 229
Refused: 31
No decision recorded: 82

Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.

What’s being built

Change of use: 17%
Extension: 16%
Retention: 14%
Housing estate: 12%
Commercial: 11%
Infrastructure: 7%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Athy, 2016–2026.

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	98%	45	95%
Retention	93%	42	90%
Change of use	83%	35	88%
Housing estate	74%	31	78%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Categories with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

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Grant rate, by year of decision

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Recently lodged in Athy

Contains Irish Public Sector Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann). Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.