Planning register

Balbriggan

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

Applications: 638
County: Dublin

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Balbriggan contains 638 total applications, with recent lodgements showing 27 in 2023, 40 in 2024, and 49 in 2025. Since 2011, there have been 527 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in an 86% grant rate that includes 453 granted, 69 refused, and 5 part-granted decisions. The most common development types are extensions at 33%, retentions at 14%, alterations at 12%, and changes of use at 10%. Recent decided examples include several invalid applications, one granted retention for an extension, and one pair of semi-detached houses with no decision recorded.

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

86%

of 527 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2011.

Granted: 453
Refused: 69
Part granted, part refused: 5
Withdrawn: 24
Invalid: 68
No decision recorded: 19

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

What’s being built

Extension: 33%
Retention: 14%
Alterations: 12%
Change of use: 10%
New dwelling: 9%
Commercial: 7%

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

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Grant rate, by year of decision

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Recently lodged in Balbriggan

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.