Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Ballina

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

Applications
549
County
Mayo

What the data shows

The planning register for Ballina contains a total of 549 applications, with a 95% grant rate out of 465 applications that have been granted, refused, or part-granted since 2016. Within this period, 443 applications were granted, 22 were refused, and 0 were part-granted. The most common development types are new dwellings at 24%, retentions at 16%, extensions at 15%, and changes of use at 12%. Recently lodged applications show 70 in 2023, 69 in 2024, and 67 in 2025, with recent granted examples including a change of use from a restaurant to office space, a domestic garage conversion, and the retention of dwelling house extensions.

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

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

95%

of 465 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
443
Refused
22
No decision recorded
84

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

What’s being built

New dwelling
24%
Retention
16%
Extension
15%
Change of use
12%
Commercial
9%
Alterations
7%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
New dwelling96%11982%
Retention96%7490%
Extension100%6995%
Change of use95%4288%
Commercial88%4088%
Demolition100%3686%
Alterations91%3292%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Ballina

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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.