Planning register

Monaghan

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

Applications: 450
County: Monaghan

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

94%

of 350 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 330
Refused: 20
No decision recorded: 100

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

What’s being built

Retention: 17%
Change of use: 16%
Extension: 13%
Commercial: 11%
New dwelling: 10%
Housing estate: 9%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Retention	94%	62	90%
Extension	100%	47	95%
Change of use	98%	44	88%
Alterations	100%	36	92%
Commercial	86%	36	88%
New dwelling	91%	32	81%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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Recently lodged in Monaghan

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.