Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Oldcastle

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

Applications
53
County
Meath

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

In the Oldcastle planning area, there are fifty-three total applications on the register, with a ninety-five percent grant rate out of forty applications granted, refused, or part-granted since 2016. This rate represents thirty-eight granted, two refused, and zero part-granted applications. The most common development types are change of use at twenty-two percent, retention at sixteen percent, housing estate at fourteen percent, and new dwelling at twelve percent. Recently lodged applications include seven in 2023, seven in 2024, and six in 2025, with recent granted examples including a single storey domestic store and home music retention, a change of use for the Oldcastle Alzheimer's Store, and an extension to the west side of an existing dwelling.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Grant rate

95%

of 40 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
38
Refused
2
No decision recorded
13

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

What’s being built

Change of use
22%
Retention
16%
Housing estate
14%
New dwelling
12%
Extension
12%
Industrial
10%

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Oldcastle

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.