Merrion planning applications

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• 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.
• Site notice planning rules — 22% of Dublin applications invalid, and the notice is the top cause2,539 of the 11,409 applications received by Dublin councils in the year to September 2026 were declared invalid; in South Dublin nearly half were for the site notice. What it must say, where it goes, when it turns yellow.
• Part 8 planning explained — 37 council schemes in Dublin this year, six weeks to object, no appealDublin's four councils opened 37 Part 8 consultations in the 12 months to September 2026. How a council's own housing, park or road scheme is approved under s.179, the six-week window, the councillors' vote, and why there is no appeal to the Commission.
• 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.