Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Ballon

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

Applications
57
County
Carlow

What the data shows

The planning register for Ballon contains fifty-seven total applications, with recent lodgements showing four in 2023, six in 2024, and eight in 2025. Since 2016, the area has a grant rate of eighty percent of forty applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of thirty granted, eight refused, and zero part-granted. The most common development types are new dwelling at thirty percent, retention at twenty-one percent, extension at sixteen percent, and change of use at fourteen percent. Recent decided examples in the area include granted permissions for a single storey extension, a split-level single storey dwelling, a fuel dispensing unit, and a residential development of semi-detached and terraced dwellings, alongside refused permissions for a nursing home change of use and a townhouse development.

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

80%

of 40 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
32
Refused
8
No decision recorded
17

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

What’s being built

New dwelling
30%
Retention
21%
Extension
16%
Change of use
14%
Housing estate
11%
Commercial
4%

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Ballon

  • Removal of archway at entrance, construction of 3no. single storey one bedroom townhouses to rear of site,…

    2660138CarlowLodged 11 May 2026

  • A single storey extension to the rear of existing single storey dwelling, decommissioning of existing septic…

    2560375CarlowLodged 18 Nov 2025

  • 2no. 2 bed two storey semi detached dwellings adjacent to existing housing development under construction and…

    2560203CarlowLodged 15 Jul 2025

  • For 2no. 2 bed two storey semi detached dwellings adjacent to existing housing development under construction…

    2560192CarlowLodged 3 Jul 2025

  • A split-level, single storey dwelling, detached double garage, use of existing entrance, connection to…

    2560121CarlowLodged 12 May 2025

  • The construction of the following: (a) 4no. semi-detached two-storey dwellings, (b) 1 block of 3no. terraced…

    2560030CarlowLodged 14 Feb 2025

  • Retention of partial conversion of existing garage permission granted under planning reference 0074 & 04132…

    2460090CarlowLodged 18 Apr 2024

  • The demolition of existing garage. Also permission for development of a storey and a half type dwelling, new…

    2460066CarlowLodged 21 Mar 2024

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.