Planning register

Portlaoise

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

Applications: 1,054
County: Laois

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Portlaoise contains a total of 1054 applications, with recent lodgements showing 101 applications in 2023, 117 in 2024, and 119 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 676 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, resulting in a 96% grant rate, with 649 granted, 27 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are retention at 23%, extension at 21%, change of use at 10%, and alterations at 9%. Recent decided examples include granted permissions for retaining a garage, retaining extensions, carrying out development at Shalom World, and altering previously approved planning, alongside a refused permission to demolish existing sheds and erect a new dwelling house.

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

96%

of 676 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 649
Refused: 27
No decision recorded: 378

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

What’s being built

Retention: 23%
Extension: 21%
Change of use: 10%
Alterations: 9%
Commercial: 8%
Housing estate: 8%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Retention	96%	141	90%
Extension	100%	139	95%
Change of use	93%	70	88%
Alterations	88%	58	92%
Commercial	98%	58	88%
Housing estate	96%	47	78%
Infrastructure	100%	40	91%
New dwelling	88%	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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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 Portlaoise

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.