Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Portarlington

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

Applications
463
County
Laois

What the data shows

The planning register for Portarlington contains a total of 463 applications, with recent lodgements showing 52 in 2023, 45 in 2024, and 37 in 2025. Since 2016, the area has a 94% grant rate out of 267 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 250 granted, 17 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are retention at 21%, housing estate at 15%, extension at 15%, and new dwelling at 12%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include projects such as constructing a single storey house, garage and carport, retaining a storeroom extension, and constructing wheelchair access to an external ATM.

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

94%

of 267 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
250
Refused
17
No decision recorded
196

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

What’s being built

Retention
21%
Housing estate
15%
Extension
15%
New dwelling
12%
Commercial
11%
Change of use
10%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Retention97%6490%
Extension100%4295%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Portarlington

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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.