Free refusal-reasons report2022
Planning refusal reasons in Ireland, 2022
429 indexed Irish planning decisions analysed for 2022, with 42 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 (309), Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown (116), Cavan (3), Wicklow (1).
429
decisions analysed42
refused10%
refusal rate50
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Planner-cited categories ranked by extracted reason signals for Ireland, 2022.
Category counts
- Design10
- Residential Amenity7
- Other4
- Visual Amenity3
- Zoning Contravention3
- Density2
- Ecology2
- Procedure Invalid2
- Protected Structure2
- Rural Housing Need2
Year-by-year trend
- 202616 refused of 161 analysed decisions; 2 reason signals10%
- 202528 refused of 363 analysed decisions; 21 reason signals8%
- 202428 refused of 293 analysed decisions; 34 reason signals10%
- 202349 refused of 406 analysed decisions; 53 reason signals12%
- 202242 refused of 429 analysed decisions; 50 reason signals10%
- 2021116 refused of 951 analysed decisions; 245 reason signals12%
- 2020301 refused of 2,220 analysed decisions; 652 reason signals14%
- 201915 refused of 372 analysed decisions; 21 reason signals4%
- 201813 refused of 485 analysed decisions; 18 reason signals3%
- 201724 refused of 329 analysed decisions; 53 reason signals7%
Real refused examples
- ABP31234721Unacceptable loss of existing trees and hedgerows on site contrary to tree preservation objectives. Excessive removal of 88 of 161 surveyed trees (54.6%) with replacement planting that do...Decided 22 April 2022Ecology
- D22A/0649Excessive building bulk and floor area relative to the main house; inadequate quantitative provision of rear private open space.Decided 21 October 2022Residential Amenity
- D22A/0438Boundary treatment and vehicular access arrangements materially contravene condition 5(a) of a prior permission, which mandates shared vehicular access.Decided 16 August 2022Other
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