Planning Permission Ireland

Planning register

Westport

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

Applications
604
County
Mayo

What the data shows

The planning register for Westport contains a total of 604 applications, with recent activity showing 60 applications lodged in 2023, 67 in 2024, and 68 in 2025. Since 2016, there has been a 91% grant rate out of 516 applications granted, refused or part-granted, which consists of 470 granted, 46 refused, and 0 part-granted. The most common development types are extensions at 23%, new dwellings at 21%, retentions at 12%, and commercial developments at 11%. Recent decided examples that were granted include the construction of a single storey restaurant extension, a three bedroom two storey house, 5 four-bedroomed terraced dwelling houses, an attached granny flat, and various house renovations and extensions.

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 516 applications granted, refused or part-granted since 2016.

Granted
470
Refused
46
No decision recorded
88

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

What’s being built

Extension
23%
New dwelling
21%
Retention
12%
Commercial
11%
Alterations
9%
Change of use
8%

Grant rate by category

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

CategoryGrantedDecidedNationally
Extension98%12195%
New dwelling81%10382%
Retention95%6290%
Commercial90%5888%
Alterations100%4592%
Change of use95%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“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded.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

6%

of 34 decided appeals changed the council’s decision, 2017–2026.

Decision upheld
15
Upheld, conditions varied
17

2 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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 Westport

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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.