Planning register

Rathnew

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

Applications: 130
County: Wicklow

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

80%

of 95 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 76
Refused: 19
No decision recorded: 35

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

What’s being built

Extension: 32%
New dwelling: 16%
Retention: 16%
Housing estate: 9%
Change of use: 9%
Commercial: 5%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	97%	32	95%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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Recently lodged in Rathnew

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.