Almost 80% Of Planning Applications In Kildare Were Approved In 2021

Tuesday, 3 January 2023 09:36

By Caoimhe Harney

The figure is below the national average

Some 79% of planning applications in Kildare were approved in 2021 by Kildare County Council, according to an overview of the Planning System 2021.

The national average grant-rate in 2021 was 88.5%.

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) report reviews key trends and outputs over the year in the wider planning system in Ireland. It includes a comparison with patterns in previous years and is the only analysis of its kind of the Irish planning system.

In total, there were 1,096 planning applications approved and 288 refused by Kildare County Council in 2021.

Overall in 2021, 7.6% of planning application decisions made by Kildare County Council were appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Of these, 28.6% were reversed. The national average rate of appeal in 2021 was 6.7%, the average reversal rate was 27.7%.

The planning invalidation rate (the percentage of invalidated planning applications as a proportion of all applications made) in Co Kildare decreased from 25.4% om 2020 to 18% in 2021;

Kildare County Council had a total of 223 sites designated by local authorities as either vacant and/or derelict. This contrasts with the CSO figure for the county of 4,560.

Planning Regulator Niall Cussen noted that it wasn't unusual for a more urban county like Kildare to have a higher refusal rate, in comparison to more rural counties.

Niall Cussen spoke with Eoin Beatty on Tuesday morning's Kildare Today: