Planning Permission Ireland

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
1,060
County
Laois

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

96%

of 682 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
655
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
8%
Commercial
8%
Housing estate
8%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Retention97%14390%
Extension100%13995%
Change of use93%7188%
Alterations88%5892%
Commercial98%5788%
Housing estate96%4878%
Infrastructure100%3991%
New dwelling88%3282%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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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.