Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Kilkenny

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

Applications
1,480
County
Kilkenny

What the data shows

The planning register for Kilkenny contains a total of 1480 applications, with recent lodgements showing 139 applications in 2023, 130 in 2024, and 162 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been a 92% grant rate out of 1240 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 1143 granted, 97 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extension at 27%, retention at 15%, alterations at 14%, and commercial at 11%. Recent decided examples include granted permissions for repair works to an existing ground-floor shopfront, construction of a two-story split level detached four bedroom dwelling house, sub-division of a bedroom to provide an additional bedroom and ensuite, change of use of a ground floor pub into residential use, and construction of a new retail warehouse unit.

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

92%

of 1,240 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
1,143
Refused
97
No decision recorded
240

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

What’s being built

Extension
27%
Retention
15%
Alterations
14%
Commercial
11%
Change of use
11%
New dwelling
8%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension99%32595%
Retention90%18690%
Alterations93%16992%
Commercial94%12788%
Change of use85%12688%
New dwelling90%9682%
Apartments71%3871%
Infrastructure97%3791%
Housing estate88%3278%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

18%

of 82 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2016–2026.

Permissions refused on appeal
15% of 62
Decision upheld
27
Upheld, conditions varied
40

15 of 82 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Kilkenny

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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.