Planning register

Tuam

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

Applications: 394
County: Galway

Planning intelligence

Grant rate

92%

of 342 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted: 315
Refused: 27
No decision recorded: 52

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

What’s being built

Retention: 26%
Extension: 14%
Commercial: 12%
Change of use: 11%
Alterations: 11%
New dwelling: 10%

Grant rate by category

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

Category	Granted	Decided	Nationally
Retention	98%	87	90%
Extension	94%	48	95%
Change of use	97%	38	88%
Commercial	89%	37	88%
Alterations	100%	35	92%
New dwelling	94%	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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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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Recently lodged in Tuam

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.