Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney

Planning applications inside the Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney, Co. Meath settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.

Applications
520
County
Meath

What the data shows

The planning register for the Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney area contains 520 total applications, with recent lodgements showing 65 in 2023, 34 in 2024, and 55 in 2025. Since 2016, the area has an 88% grant rate out of 369 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 326 granted, 43 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 29%, retentions at 16%, housing estates at 13%, and new dwellings at 11%. Recent decided examples that were granted include the amalgamation of two semi-detached dwellings, the installation of a domestic waste water treatment system, internal alterations for an off-licence area, development in the curtilage of a protected structure, amendments to a previously granted development, and retention for alterations to a dwelling house.

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

88%

of 369 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
326
Refused
43
No decision recorded
151

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

What’s being built

Extension
29%
Retention
16%
Housing estate
13%
New dwelling
11%
Alterations
11%
Change of use
9%

Grant rate by category

How each kind of application has been decided in Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney, 2016–2026.

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension94%10695%
Retention93%6090%
Housing estate79%4278%
New dwelling70%4082%
Alterations88%3492%
Change of use93%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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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 Laytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney

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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.