Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Drogheda

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

Applications
1,623
County
Louth

What the data shows

The planning register for Drogheda contains a total of 1623 applications, with recent lodgements showing 146 in 2023, 155 in 2024, and 171 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been a 91% grant rate out of 1180 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 1077 granted, 103 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extension at 22%, retention at 22%, change of use at 11%, and commercial at 11%. Recent decided examples include granted permissions for a six-storey hotel with 107 bedrooms, a change of use to medical use, a residential development, and the continuous use of an existing structure, alongside a refused retention of a steel structure/canopy.

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 1,180 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
1,077
Refused
103
No decision recorded
443

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

What’s being built

Extension
22%
Retention
22%
Change of use
11%
Commercial
11%
Alterations
8%
Apartments
7%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension97%26495%
Retention84%24590%
Change of use95%12388%
Commercial91%11888%
Alterations96%9792%
Apartments78%8171%
Housing estate91%6978%
New dwelling89%5582%
Infrastructure98%4491%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

20%

of 83 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2016–2026.

Permissions refused on appeal
15% of 66
Decision upheld
35
Upheld, conditions varied
31

17 of 83 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Drogheda

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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.