Wexford
Planning applications inside the Wexford, Co. Wexford settlement, as recorded on the statutory register. The area is the CSO’s Census 2022 urban boundary.
- 1,260
- inside the settlement boundary
- Wexford
- CSO Census 2022
Decisions
Grant rate
86%
Also on the register, outside the rate: No decision recorded 241
Historical outcomes from the statutory register. Not a prediction for any individual application.
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| Outcome | Applications |
|---|---|
| Granted | 879 |
| Refused | 140 |
| No decision recorded | 241 |
What’s being applied for
Types are read from each application's description; the most common are shown.
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| Type | Applications | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Retention | 289 | 23% |
| Extension | 215 | 17% |
| Alterations | 162 | 13% |
| Change of use | 139 | 11% |
| New dwelling | 98 | 8% |
| Demolition | 87 | 7% |
Grant rate by type of development
| Type | Granted | Decided | Nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retention | 89% | 214 | 90% |
| Extension | 91% | 160 | 95% |
| Alterations | 88% | 117 | 92% |
| Change of use | 80% | 90 | 88% |
| New dwelling | 80% | 69 | 81% |
| Demolition | 78% | 63 | 86% |
| Commercial | 89% | 53 | 88% |
| Housing estate | 76% | 33 | 78% |
“Decided” counts applications granted, refused or part-granted — withdrawn and invalid applications are excluded. Types with fewer than 30 decided applications are not listed, because a rate over a handful of applications would not mean anything.
Appeals
Appeals to An Bord Pleanála
29%
18 of 63 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 Withdrawn and invalid appeals are excluded, because nothing was decided.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
Applications lodged
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| Year | Applications |
|---|---|
| 2016 | 97 |
| 2017 | 113 |
| 2018 | 132 |
| 2019 | 110 |
| 2020 | 101 |
| 2021 | 131 |
| 2022 | 100 |
| 2023 | 108 |
| 2024 | 105 |
| 2025 | 113 |
Grant rate by year
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| Year | Decided | Granted | Grant rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 87 | 74 | 85% |
| 2017 | 73 | 59 | 81% |
| 2018 | 97 | 86 | 89% |
| 2019 | 87 | 79 | 91% |
| 2020 | 79 | 71 | 90% |
| 2021 | 102 | 88 | 86% |
| 2022 | 89 | 74 | 83% |
| 2023 | 92 | 79 | 86% |
| 2024 | 75 | 64 | 85% |
| 2025 | 89 | 79 | 89% |
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Source the statutory planning registers; settlement boundary: CSO Census 2022 urban areas (Tailte Éireann) · Licence Irish Public Sector Data, CC BY 4.0Always confirm against the relevant authority’s official register.