PlanningBrief insights

Irish construction planning trends.

Aggregate views of the live PlanningBrief planning, appeal and tender datasets: where applications are concentrated, what project types dominate, and how value bands distribute.

Last updated 26 Jun 2026 02:27 UTC Planning feed ETL 29 Jun 2026 / 5554 public planning leads

Live planning dataset

5,554 public planning leads across 26 counties.

MetricValue
Latest measured week2026-06-19
Top county by countDublin
Top project classOne-off house
Open/current TED tenders787

Activity cluster

Dublin currently leads the index with 1,489 records (26.8% of the surfaced register).

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Project mix

One-off house is the largest project class at 1,889 records (34.0%), so use project-type pages to separate domestic, commercial and larger schemes.

Browse project types

Current signal

2026-06 contributes 1,929 records in the current month bucket; tender volume is strongest in Construction works with 186 notices in the imported sample.

Open tenders

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Applications by county

CountyCountShare
Dublin 1489 26.8%
Donegal 409 7.4%
Cork 400 7.2%
Galway 366 6.6%
Wexford 252 4.5%
Meath 238 4.3%
Limerick 229 4.1%
Tipperary 196 3.5%
Clare 194 3.5%
Waterford 175 3.2%
Kerry 146 2.6%
Kilkenny 140 2.5%
Wicklow 121 2.2%
Cavan 121 2.2%

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Applications by project type

SegmentCountShare
One-off house 1889 34.0%
Retention 790 14.2%
Small residential 775 14.0%
Agricultural 353 6.4%
Planning record 325 5.9%
Commercial fit-out 235 4.2%
Protected structure 217 3.9%
Infrastructure 198 3.6%
Demolition 194 3.5%
Commercial new build 136 2.4%
Mixed use 86 1.5%
Small multi-unit 84 1.5%
Large residential 81 1.5%
Energy 72 1.3%

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Applications by month

SegmentCountShare
2026-06 1929 34.7%
2026-04 922 16.6%
2026-05 881 15.9%
2026-03 764 13.8%
2026-02 312 5.6%
2025-12 198 3.6%
2026-01 139 2.5%
2025-11 114 2.1%
2025-10 95 1.7%
2025-09 76 1.4%
2025-08 32 0.6%
2025-07 25 0.5%

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Value-band distribution

SegmentCountShare
Unknown - verify 3992 71.9%
EUR 250k-500k 1011 18.2%
EUR <250k 258 4.6%
EUR 500k-1m 141 2.5%
EUR 1m-3m 72 1.3%
EUR 3m-10m 42 0.8%
EUR 10m-30m 19 0.3%
EUR 30m+ 19 0.3%

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Tender volume by CPV family

SegmentCountShare
Construction works 186 62.0%
Architecture / engineering 109 36.3%
Construction materials 5 1.7%
Ranked

County league tables

Rank counties by application count, estimated units and largest current project.

High value

Biggest projects

Largest current planning leads and construction tenders by value signal.