Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Cobh

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

Applications
1,702
County
Cork

What the data shows

The planning register for Cobh contains 1702 total applications, with a 90% grant rate across the 1290 applications that have been granted, refused, or part-granted since 1900. This historical outcome includes 1158 granted, 127 refused, and 5 part-granted applications, with the most common development types being extensions at 38%, new dwellings at 18%, retentions at 12%, and alterations at 9%. Recent activity shows that 56 applications were lodged in 2023, 73 in 2024, and 105 in 2025. Recent decisions in the area include granted permissions for a single-storey side and rear extension, retention of a single-storey side extension, a two-storey rear extension with a front porch, the demolition of school buildings, and a new waste water treatment unit, while permission was refused for the retention of three canopies for a cafe.

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

90%

of 1,290 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 1900.

Granted
1,158
Refused
127
Part granted, part refused
5
No decision recorded
412

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

What’s being built

Extension
38%
New dwelling
18%
Retention
12%
Alterations
9%
Housing estate
5%
Change of use
5%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension96%19195%
New dwelling79%7382%
Retention94%5090%
Alterations94%3692%
Housing estate100%3078%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

22%

of 72 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2004–2025.

Permissions refused on appeal
27% of 45
Decision upheld
37
Upheld, conditions varied
19

16 of 72 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Cobh

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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.