Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Kildare

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

Applications
526
County
Kildare

What the data shows

The planning register for Kildare contains a total of 526 applications, with 67 lodged in 2023, 57 in 2024, and 45 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 383 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in an 89% grant rate with 341 granted, 42 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are retention at 19%, extension at 18%, commercial at 13%, and new dwelling at 11%. Recent decisions in the area include approvals for a self-service laundry kiosk, dormer windows, and a single-story side extension, alongside refusals for cottage works, two dwellings with a new access lane, and the partial demolition of a commercial premises.

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

89%

of 383 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
341
Refused
42
No decision recorded
143

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

What’s being built

Retention
19%
Extension
18%
Commercial
13%
New dwelling
11%
Housing estate
10%
Change of use
9%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension99%8195%
Retention92%6690%
Commercial96%5288%
Housing estate79%3978%
New dwelling88%3282%
Alterations100%3192%
Change of use81%3188%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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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.