Free refusal-reasons report2026
Carlow planning refusal reasons, 2026
161 Carlow planning decisions analysed for 2026, with 16 refusals and the most common planner-cited refusal grounds.Coverage noteThese figures cover decisions whose public planner reports have been indexed and machine-read by PlanIntel. County cuts publish only after the county passes the extraction threshold; national pages show the currently analysed corpus, not every council in Ireland.Included in this page: Carlow (161).
161
decisions analysed16
refused10%
refusal rate2
refusal-reason signalsEvidence chart
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Carlow, 2026.
Category counts
- Procedure Invalid1
- Wastewater Percolation1
Year-by-year trend
- 202616 refused of 161 analysed decisions; 2 reason signals10%
- 202527 refused of 353 analysed decisions; 20 reason signals8%
- 202420 refused of 262 analysed decisions; 20 reason signals8%
- 202335 refused of 333 analysed decisions; 17 reason signals11%
- 202229 refused of 309 analysed decisions; 11 reason signals9%
- 202124 refused of 275 analysed decisions; 15 reason signals9%
- 202016 refused of 310 analysed decisions; 20 reason signals5%
Real refused examples
- 2560286Site layout plan failed to indicate likely ground flow direction and soakaway at site entrance, preventing verification of compliance with EPA separation distance requirements.Decided 05 June 2026Wastewater Percolation
- 2537Extension of duration refused because student accommodation does not qualify as a house under Section 42(8) of the Planning and Development Act 2000.Decided 12 February 2026Procedure Invalid
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