Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Tullamore

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

Applications
804
County
Offaly

What the data shows

The planning register for Tullamore contains a total of 804 applications, with recent lodgements showing 97 in 2023, 90 in 2024, and 82 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been a 92% grant rate out of 546 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 505 granted, 41 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 20%, retentions at 19%, new dwellings at 12%, and changes of use at 10%. Recent decided examples that were granted include modifications to a planning grant at Collins Lane, a change of use to a funeral parlour, an as-built block boundary wall, the partial removal of a party wall, and the installation of heat pumps and an LPG tank.

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

92%

of 546 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
505
Refused
41
No decision recorded
258

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

What’s being built

Extension
20%
Retention
19%
New dwelling
12%
Change of use
10%
Alterations
9%
Housing estate
8%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension98%12395%
Retention92%10190%
New dwelling96%5782%
Change of use89%5388%
Alterations96%4792%
Housing estate75%4078%
Commercial90%3988%

“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

15%

of 34 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2017–2025.

Decision upheld
29

5 of 34 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Tullamore

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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.