Planning register

Trim

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

Applications: 434
County: Meath

Planning intelligence

What the data shows

The planning register for Trim contains a total of 434 applications, with recent lodgements showing 35 in 2023, 47 in 2024, and 49 in 2025. Out of 332 applications granted, refused, or part-granted since 2016, the area has a 96% grant rate, representing 319 granted, 13 refused, and 0 part-granted decisions. The most common development types are extensions at 26%, retentions at 17%, new dwellings at 11%, and changes of use at 10%. Recent decided examples, which were all granted, include permissions for the retention of education use, a detached two-storey dwelling, a domestic garage, a two-storey extension, a site subdivision for a single-storey dwelling, and amendments to a Strategic Housing Development. This is information, not legal advice._

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

96%

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

Granted: 319
Refused: 13
No decision recorded: 102

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

What’s being built

Extension: 26%
Retention: 17%
New dwelling: 11%
Change of use: 10%
Commercial: 9%
Alterations: 8%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Extension	97%	79	95%
Retention	96%	57	90%
Change of use	94%	35	88%
New dwelling	91%	33	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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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 Trim

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.