Wexford planning applications

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• Planning permission grant rates by council — Dublin, Fingal, DLR, South Dublin and the commuter countiesHow often each Greater Dublin Area council grants, refuses and invalidates applications, how long each takes, how often decisions are appealed, and what gets refused most — computed from the registers when this page was built, with the queries shown.
• Planning decision times by council — median and p90 days from lodgement to decision, and the further-information shareSouth Dublin decided applications in a median 49 days over 12 months (n=1,129) and Kildare in 77 (n=925); Kildare's slowest tenth took more than 252 days and half its applications got a further-information request. Median and 90th-percentile decision days for the seven Greater Dublin councils, why the eight-week clock stretches, and what the FI share tells you.
• Where Dublin is building — commencement notices by local electoral area, 12 months3,366 commencement notices were lodged across the four Dublin councils in 12 months and geolinked to an electoral area; Pembroke led with 204 and Tallaght South trailed with 23. What a commencement notice is, why it is the signal that a permission is real, the ranking of all 31 electoral areas, and the month-by-month shape.
• How to object to a planning application in Ireland — five weeks, €20, and 348 open windows today348 Dublin-area applications are inside their five-week observation window as this page was built. Anyone can make a submission for €20. Since the 2024 Act it is also the ticket to an appeal and, for most people, to judicial review.