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.
- 1,712
- inside the settlement boundary
- Cork
- CSO Census 2022
Decisions
Grant rate
90%
Also on the register, outside the rate: No decision recorded 419
Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.
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| Outcome | Applications |
|---|---|
| Granted | 1,161 |
| Refused | 127 |
| Part granted, part refused | 5 |
| No decision recorded | 419 |
What’s being applied for
Types are read from each application's description; the most common are shown.
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| Type | Applications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Extension | 613 | 38% |
| New dwelling | 288 | 18% |
| Retention | 202 | 12% |
| Alterations | 151 | 9% |
| Housing estate | 87 | 5% |
| Change of use | 79 | 5% |
Grant rate by type of development
| Type | Granted | Decided | Nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension | 97% | 192 | 95% |
| New dwelling | 79% | 73 | 81% |
| Retention | 94% | 50 | 90% |
| Alterations | 94% | 36 | 92% |
| Housing estate | 100% | 30 | 78% |
“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Types with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.
Appeals
Appeals to An Bord Pleanála
22%
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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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
Applications lodged
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| Year | Applications |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 64 |
| 2017 | 74 |
| 2018 | 65 |
| 2019 | 53 |
| 2020 | 77 |
| 2021 | 68 |
| 2022 | 40 |
| 2023 | 56 |
| 2024 | 73 |
| 2025 | 105 |
Grant rate by year
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| Year | Decided | Granted | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 41 | 35 | 85% |
| 2017 | 46 | 42 | 91% |
| 2018 | 56 | 49 | 88% |
| 2019 | 36 | 34 | 94% |
| 2020 | 48 | 42 | 88% |
| 2021 | 48 | 46 | 96% |
| 2022 | 27 | 25 | 93% |
| 2023 | 35 | 31 | 89% |
| 2024 | 54 | 48 | 89% |
| 2025 | 74 | 71 | 96% |
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Source the statutory planning registers; settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann) · Licence Irish Public Sector Data, CC BY 4.0Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.