Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Letterkenny

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

Applications
1,367
County
Donegal

What the data shows

The planning register for Letterkenny contains a total of 1367 applications, with recent lodgements showing 132 in 2023, 164 in 2024, and 169 in 2025. Out of 1064 applications granted, refused, or part-granted since 2016, the area has a 92% grant rate, consisting of 977 granted, 87 refused, and 0 part-granted applications. The most common development types are new dwellings at 19%, extensions at 18%, retentions at 15%, and commercial developments at 10%. Recent decided examples in the area include granted permissions for a replacement dwelling, apartment block retention, a domestic extension, student accommodation, and a boundary wall, while a car valeting shed was refused.

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 1,064 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
977
Refused
87
No decision recorded
303

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

What’s being built

New dwelling
19%
Extension
18%
Retention
15%
Commercial
10%
Change of use
9%
Alterations
7%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension97%20295%
New dwelling88%20182%
Retention92%15490%
Commercial89%9688%
Change of use89%8488%
Alterations96%8092%
Housing estate95%5778%
Infrastructure91%4691%
Apartments84%4371%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

33%

of 43 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2016–2026.

Permissions refused on appeal
30% of 37
Decision upheld
27
Upheld, conditions varied
2

14 of 43 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Letterkenny

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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.