Planning register

Shannon

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

Applications: 362
County: Clare

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

97%

of 332 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 322
Refused: 10
No decision recorded: 30

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

What’s being built

Commercial: 26%
Extension: 14%
Retention: 14%
Industrial: 11%
Change of use: 8%
Infrastructure: 7%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Commercial	96%	81	88%
Retention	96%	50	90%
Extension	98%	44	95%
Industrial	97%	36	93%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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.