There was an annual fall of 34% in the number of homes approved for planning permission across the four local authorities of Dublin in the first quarter of the year.<\/p>\n
According to figures released by the Central Statistics Office, 1,452 dwelling units received approval in Dublin in the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n
Of these, the number of apartments approved was down by 31.6%, while the number of houses approved decreased by 39.7%, falling from 643 units to 388 units.<\/p>\n
The figures show that in the first quarter of the year there was an annual decline of 43.8% in the total number of Strategic Housing Developments (SHD) dwelling units approved, of which the number of apartments approved fell by just over 40%, compared with a fall of just over 48% in the number of houses approved.<\/p>\n
Nationally, there was a decrease of 1% in the total number of homes approved for planning permission in the first three months of the year compared to the same quarter last year.<\/p>\n
According to the CSO, 8,092 dwelling units received planning approval in the first quarter of 2026, down from 8,177 units a year ago.<\/p>\n
Houses accounted for 61% of all dwelling units granted planning permission in the first quarter of the year, while apartments made up the remaining 39%.<\/p>\n
In first three months of 2026, the number of apartments granted planning permission fell by 2.7% when compared with the first quarter of 2025, while the total number of house approvals remained static.<\/p>\n
The number of multi-development houses receiving planning permission was down by 4% annually.<\/p>\n
The number of one-off houses receiving planning permission rose by 12.4%.<\/p>\n
There was an increase of 21.7% in the number of individual planning permissions granted for all developments with 7,933 permissions approved compared with 6,520 permissions last year.<\/p>\n
Of theses, there were 1,789 for new construction dwellings, 2,489 for other new constructions, 2,060 for extensions, and 1,595 permissions were for alterations and conversions.<\/p>\n
“Dublin had the highest number of apartment units granted planning permission in the state in Q1 2026 at 1,064 apartments or 34% of all apartments and accounted for 8% of house units approved (388),” said Shane O’Sullivan, CSO Statistician in the Housing Division.<\/p>\n
“The Midlands region (Laois, Longford, Offaly, and Westmeath) recorded the lowest number of apartment units (77) granted planning permission,” he said.<\/p>\n
“The South-West region (Cork and Kerry) accounted for the highest number of houses (1,045) granted planning, while the Dublin region recorded the lowest number of houses (388),” Mr O’Sullivan said.<\/p>\n
In an advisory note, the CSO stated that the number of new dwelling units granted planning permission can vary significantly from quarter to quarter if a large development or a number of large developments are approved within the same reference quarter.<\/p>\n
“Users should therefore exercise caution in extrapolating long-term trends on the basis of a single quarter’s data,” the CSO said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was an annual fall of 34% in the number of homes approved for planning permission across the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-492544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}