Planning register

Tralee

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

Applications: 1,178
County: Kerry

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Tralee contains a total of 1178 applications, with a grant rate of 90% of 943 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016. This rate represents 850 granted, 93 refused, and 0 part-granted applications, with the most common development types being retention at 23%, extension at 22%, commercial at 11%, and change of use at 11%. Looking at recently lodged applications, there were 116 in 2023, 135 in 2024, and 114 in 2025. Recent decided examples of these applications show outcomes such as granted permissions for a porch, a change of use for a domestic garage, alterations to previously granted permissions, a metal clad steel shed, and building refurbishments, alongside a refusal for a new single-storey dwelling house.

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

90%

of 943 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 850
Refused: 93
No decision recorded: 235

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

What’s being built

Retention: 23%
Extension: 22%
Commercial: 11%
Change of use: 11%
New dwelling: 11%
Alterations: 8%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	97%	212	95%
Retention	92%	195	90%
Change of use	87%	112	88%
Commercial	88%	97	88%
New dwelling	89%	95	81%
Alterations	93%	83	92%
Housing estate	68%	31	78%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

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.