Planning register

Roscommon

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

Applications: 466
County: Roscommon

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Roscommon contains a total of 466 applications, with recent lodgements including 57 in 2023, 41 in 2024, and 47 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been an 87% grant rate out of 296 applications granted, refused, or part-granted, which consists of 257 granted, 39 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 17%, retention at 17%, new dwellings at 13%, and commercial developments at 13%. Recent decisions in the area show granted permissions for developments such as a two-storey dwelling house with a domestic garage, the refurbishment of an existing vacant dwelling, the construction of four semi-detached and eight detached houses, the continued use of buildings as an educational facility, and retention permission for a revised bay window and garage, while permission to construct a two-storey, two-bedroom dwelling house was refused.

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

87%

of 296 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 257
Refused: 39
No decision recorded: 170

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

What’s being built

Extension: 17%
Retention: 17%
New dwelling: 13%
Commercial: 13%
Change of use: 11%
Alterations: 9%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	94%	54	95%
Retention	83%	48	90%
Change of use	94%	33	88%
Commercial	97%	32	88%
Alterations	94%	31	92%
New dwelling	68%	31	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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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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Grant rate, by year of decision

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Recently lodged in Roscommon

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.