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Louth refusal reasons
Public planning records indexed for Louth, with refusal trends and recent source-linked examples.Louth county hub7,114
indexed decisions1,168
refused16%
refusal rate5,946
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Yearly trend
- 202663 refused of 407 decisions15%
- 2025118 refused of 813 decisions15%
- 2024153 refused of 745 decisions21%
- 2023149 refused of 722 decisions21%
- 2022161 refused of 851 decisions19%
- 2021277 refused of 1,195 decisions23%
- 2020135 refused of 779 decisions17%
- 201978 refused of 824 decisions9%
- 201834 refused of 778 decisions4%
Recent refused records
Search all Louth refusals- 2660284Permission for a Purpose-Built Student Accommodation development. The proposed development will comprise: (a) The construction of a student accommodation building incorporating 60no. student bedrooms with associated facilities for residential use within the building as student accommodation; (building height ranging from part single storey to three storey); (b) The provision of external communal space areas; (c) The provision of an external bicycle store building and a bin store building; (d) Associated parking facilities; (e) Creation of a new vehicular and pedestrian access from Hoey’s Lane with associated works; (f) Provision of an internal access road, footpaths and all associated site development works; (g) The provision of associated site works along with new boundary treatments; (h) All ancillary site development works to facilitate connections to existing foul, water and service networks / 03 July 2026Refused
- 2560728Retention of a tennis court, the retention of a replacement agricultural shed, and the retention of the refurbishment of the existing courtyard including the retention of six apartments for short term rental purposes and waste water treatment unit and percolation area within the curtilage of Protected Structure LHS018-003 / 30 June 2026Refused
- 2560662Retention of a 491.20m² cattle shed, 452.48m² feed store, 1620m² concrete yard and all associated site development works. / 30 June 2026Refused
- 2660280Permission for the demolition of an existing dwelling house and the construction of a replacement dwelling house, the installation of a wastewater treatment system and percolation area, alterations to site boundaries and vehicular/pedestrian access arrangements, and all associated site development works / 29 June 2026Refused
- 2660272Outline permission for a dwelling house, waste water treatment system and percolation area, new vehicular entrance and all associated site works / 29 June 2026Refused
- 2660276Permission for the construction of a vehicular road entrance, the piping of a stream, construction of a driveway and for associated siteworks in Belpatrick to service a proposed site that will be located in Rathbranmore, Collon, County Meath and which will comprise a 2 storey dwellinghouse, a single storey domestic garage, a waste water treatment system, a soil polishing filter, and associated siteworks / 26 June 2026Refused
- 2660268Permission to construct a dry bedded shed for the housing of livestock, incorporating a cattle handling facility & slatted tank along with roofed silage base, grain store, machinery store & manure pit, together with new site entrance & other associated ancillary site works / 26 June 2026Refused
- 2660260Retention and completion of an existing partially constructed single storey dwelling house and full permission for revisions to the existing vehicular entrance and all associated site development works. The dwelling and entrance were originally granted planning permission under planning reference number 18712 (Permission sought for alterations and extension to an existing single storey cottage, demolition of an existing outbuilding, new vehicular entrance, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area). Note all foul and surface water drainage details as per those granted and installed on foot of planning reference number 18712 / 26 June 2026Refused
- 2660031Permission for the refurbishment & alterations of existing dwelling house, extension to rear of existing dwelling house, domestic garage and all associated site development works / 26 June 2026Refused
- 2560803Permission for alterations to previously granted Planning Application – Ref No. 24-086. These alterations will consist of revisions to the 6 No. apartment, three-storey residential building to include provision of 8 No. own door apartments including 4 No. one bedroom ground floor apartments and 4 No. three bedroom two storey apartments (to first and second floors) including associated elevational/design changes in place of that previously granted. Alterations to previously granted associated site development works *Significant Further Information received 26/05/2026* / 19 June 2026Refused
- 2560815The proposed development consist of (i) Demolition of existing single storey rear extension (ii) Construction of a two-storey rear extension (iii) All associated site and development works at 37 St. Alphonsus Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth. / 12 June 2026Refused
- 2658Permission for the demolition of existing dwelling house and the construction of a new replacement dwelling house, effluent treatment plant and percolation area, new detached domestic garage and all associated site works / 12 June 2026Refused