Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Bundoran

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

Applications
273
County
Donegal

What the data shows

The planning register for Bundoran contains a total of 273 applications, with recent lodgements showing 23 applications in 2023, 22 in 2024, and 16 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 206 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in a 93% grant rate with 191 granted, 15 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 20%, retentions at 19%, new dwellings at 18%, and commercial developments at 13%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include works such as the construction of a domestic garage, an extension to the side elevation of a dwelling, and the retention of 20 static caravans.

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

93%

of 206 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
191
Refused
15
No decision recorded
67

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

What’s being built

Extension
20%
Retention
19%
New dwelling
18%
Commercial
13%
Change of use
11%
Alterations
7%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension100%4195%
Retention95%3790%
New dwelling81%3282%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

ListMap

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.