Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Navan

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

Applications
1,041
County
Meath

What the data shows

The planning register for Navan contains a total of 1041 applications, with recent lodgements showing 107 applications in 2023, 104 in 2024, and 113 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 762 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in a 91% grant rate with 690 granted, 72 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 27%, retention at 15%, change of use at 13%, and commercial developments at 8%. Recent decided examples include granted permissions for a two-storey side extension, a large-scale development, a first-floor extension, a retention permission, and a rear single-storey extension, while a two-story extension to the rear and side 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

91%

of 762 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
690
Refused
72
No decision recorded
279

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

What’s being built

Extension
27%
Retention
15%
Change of use
13%
Commercial
8%
Alterations
8%
Housing estate
8%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension92%21295%
Retention95%11590%
Change of use92%9088%
Commercial95%5788%
Alterations96%5692%
Housing estate83%4878%
New dwelling71%4882%
Apartments73%4471%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

23%

of 43 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2017–2026.

Permissions refused on appeal
20% of 30
Decision upheld
13
Upheld, conditions varied
20

10 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Navan

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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.