Limerick city and suburbs
Planning applications inside the Limerick city and suburbs, Co. Limerick settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.
- 3,715
- inside the settlement boundary
- Limerick
- CSO Census 2022
Decisions
Grant rate
92%
Also on the register, outside the rate: No decision recorded 486
Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.
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| Outcome | Applications |
|---|---|
| Granted | 2,971 |
| Refused | 258 |
| No decision recorded | 486 |
What’s being applied for
Types are read from each application's description; the most common are shown.
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| Type | Applications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Extension | 1,039 | 28% |
| Retention | 633 | 17% |
| Change of use | 442 | 12% |
| Commercial | 374 | 10% |
| Alterations | 308 | 8% |
| New dwelling | 218 | 6% |
Grant rate by type of development
| Type | Granted | Decided | Nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension | 96% | 912 | 95% |
| Retention | 85% | 516 | 90% |
| Change of use | 92% | 371 | 88% |
| Commercial | 91% | 302 | 88% |
| Alterations | 95% | 255 | 92% |
| New dwelling | 80% | 165 | 81% |
| Apartments | 95% | 147 | 71% |
| Infrastructure | 95% | 129 | 91% |
| Housing estate | 91% | 115 | 78% |
| Industrial | 95% | 59 | 93% |
| Other | 91% | 33 | 88% |
“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Types with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.
Appeals
Appeals to An Bord Pleanála
14%
35 of 251 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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
Applications lodged
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| Year | Applications |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 330 |
| 2017 | 315 |
| 2018 | 371 |
| 2019 | 356 |
| 2020 | 312 |
| 2021 | 375 |
| 2022 | 301 |
| 2023 | 307 |
| 2024 | 369 |
| 2025 | 395 |
Grant rate by year
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| Year | Decided | Granted | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 200 | 190 | 95% |
| 2017 | 282 | 271 | 96% |
| 2018 | 324 | 305 | 94% |
| 2019 | 335 | 311 | 93% |
| 2020 | 294 | 279 | 95% |
| 2021 | 311 | 289 | 93% |
| 2022 | 296 | 266 | 90% |
| 2023 | 282 | 256 | 91% |
| 2024 | 299 | 267 | 89% |
| 2025 | 318 | 283 | 89% |
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Source the statutory planning registers; settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann) · Licence Irish Public Sector Data, CC BY 4.0Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.