Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Tramore

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

Applications
757
County
Waterford

What the data shows

The planning register for Tramore contains a total of 757 applications, with recent lodgements showing 80 applications in 2023, 79 in 2024, and 89 in 2025. Since 2016, there have been 566 applications granted, refused or part-granted, resulting in a 91% grant rate with 513 granted, 53 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 26%, retentions at 17%, new dwellings at 12%, and alterations at 11%. Recent decided examples include granted permissions for attic conversions, dormer extensions, and garden studio retentions, alongside refused permissions for a drive-thru lane reconfiguration and an agricultural machinery storage building.

An automated reading of the figures on this page. Every statement reflects the register data shown above; it is not advice or a prediction.

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

91%

of 566 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
513
Refused
53
No decision recorded
191

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

What’s being built

Extension
26%
Retention
17%
New dwelling
12%
Alterations
11%
Housing estate
9%
Change of use
6%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension98%16195%
Retention97%9790%
New dwelling80%6982%
Alterations95%5792%
Housing estate80%4578%
Commercial84%3188%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

Appeals to An Bord Pleanála

33%

of 39 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2017–2026.

Decision upheld
22
Upheld, conditions varied
4

13 of 39 decided appeals reversed the council either way. Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided. Appeals are self-selected — only decisions someone chose to challenge appear here — so this is a record of appealed cases, not a measure of the council’s decisions overall.

Activity over time

Applications lodged, by year

Grant rate, by year of decision

Recently lodged in Tramore

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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.