Planning register

Ballybofey-Stranorlar

Planning applications inside the Ballybofey-Stranorlar, Co. Donegal settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications: 317
County: Donegal

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Ballybofey-Stranorlar contains 317 total applications, with recent lodgements showing 23 in 2023, 32 in 2024, and 33 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 248 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in a 92% grant rate with 227 granted, 21 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are retention at 19%, extensions at 18%, change of use at 17%, and new dwellings at 11%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include works such as the construction of a semi-detached block containing two two-bed dwellings, home office and residential extensions, a dwelling house with a septic tank, and a detached domestic garage.

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

92%

of 248 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 227
Refused: 21
No decision recorded: 69

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

What’s being built

Retention: 19%
Extension: 18%
Change of use: 17%
New dwelling: 11%
Commercial: 10%
Housing estate: 6%

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

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Grant rate, by year of decision

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Recently lodged in Ballybofey-Stranorlar

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.