Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Donegal

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

Applications
300
County
Donegal

What the data shows

The planning register for Donegal contains 300 total applications, with recent lodgements showing 17 in 2023, 23 in 2024, and 30 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been a 95% grant rate out of 232 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 220 granted, 12 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are commercial at 17%, change of use at 16%, retention at 15%, and extensions at 14%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include projects such as a sunroom extension, window and velux installations, roof replacement and demolition, shopfront retention, a change of use to an office or laboratory, and a surgery extension.

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

95%

of 232 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
220
Refused
12
No decision recorded
68

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

What’s being built

Commercial
17%
Change of use
16%
Retention
15%
Extension
14%
New dwelling
13%
Alterations
9%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension97%3595%
Change of use85%3488%
Retention91%3490%
Commercial100%3088%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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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.