Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Clara

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

Applications
126
County
Offaly

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Clara contains a total of 126 applications, with recent lodgements showing 12 in 2023, 20 in 2024, and 23 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 81 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in a 93% grant rate with 75 granted, 6 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are new dwellings at 23%, retention at 21%, extensions at 16%, and change of use at 15%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include projects such as constructing a side extension, building a new dwelling house and garage, and revising an existing 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

93%

of 81 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
75
Refused
6
No decision recorded
45

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

What’s being built

New dwelling
23%
Retention
21%
Extension
16%
Change of use
15%
Alterations
10%
Infrastructure
6%

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Clara

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.