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
450
County
Laois

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Portarlington contains a total of 450 applications, with recent annual lodgements showing 52 applications in 2023, 45 in 2024, and 37 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 265 applications granted, refused or part-granted, resulting in a 94% grant rate with 248 granted, 17 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are retention at 22%, extension at 15%, housing estate at 15%, and new dwelling at 11%. Recent decided examples that were granted include the retention of a domestic shed, the construction of a single storey house, garage and carport, and the construction of a two storey veterinary clinic.

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

94%

of 265 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
248
Refused
17
No decision recorded
185

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

What’s being built

Retention
22%
Extension
15%
Housing estate
15%
New dwelling
11%
Commercial
11%
Change of use
10%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Retention97%6390%
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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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.