Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Celbridge

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

Applications
656
County
Kildare

What the data shows

The planning register for Celbridge contains a total of 656 applications, with recent lodgements showing 65 in 2023, 79 in 2024, and 49 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 467 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in a 91% grant rate with 423 granted, 44 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 51%, retentions at 17%, new dwellings at 7%, and commercial developments at 7%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include projects such as attic conversions, single-storey rear extensions, alterations to two-storey semi-detached dwellings, and changes of use from commercial office to residential.

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

91%

of 467 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
423
Refused
44
No decision recorded
189

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

What’s being built

Extension
51%
Retention
17%
New dwelling
7%
Commercial
7%
Change of use
5%
Alterations
5%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension97%24795%
Retention91%6890%
New dwelling67%3682%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

Appeals to An Bord Pleanála

10%

of 39 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2016–2026.

Decision upheld
33
Upheld, conditions varied
2

4 of 39 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Celbridge

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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.