Cork City planning permission: no decision in the national register

Fewer applications reach the council than before: 692 in 2024, down 23% from 895 in 2019. The busiest full year was 2019, with 895 applications.

What Cork City reported for 2025

Because the national register stops for Cork City, the council's own return to the Department is the only recent count of its applications used on this page. It lists 529 applications for dwellings and 75 for commercial buildings, then government, health and education buildings (23), industrial buildings (21) and other buildings for social use (18). Agricultural buildings barely feature, with 2. Cork City declared 213 applications invalid and reported 42 decisions to refuse, 32 of them on dwellings and 6 on commercial buildings. The return counts 443 applications decided within 8 weeks. These are annual counts sent by the council, not decisions read from the register, so they give no share granted and no waiting time to set beside the other councils.

These figures come from each council's annual return to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: applications received in 2025, decisions to refuse and other measures, published under a CC BY-SA 4.0 licence. An application that fits several categories is counted in each, so the categories do not add up to a number of applications, and the Department notes that councils may have read its guidance in slightly different ways.

Following an application in Cork City

In the national register, Cork City applications link to their files on planning.corkcity.ie. These links come from the last applications the register holds for the council.