Planning register

Sligo

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

Applications: 797
County: Sligo

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

96%

of 693 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2009.

Granted: 663
Refused: 30
No decision recorded: 104

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

What’s being built

Extension: 27%
Retention: 17%
Change of use: 16%
Alterations: 10%
Commercial: 10%
New dwelling: 5%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	99%	176	95%
Retention	92%	107	90%
Change of use	93%	101	88%
Commercial	99%	69	88%
Alterations	100%	68	92%
New dwelling	94%	34	81%
Infrastructure	97%	31	91%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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.