Tipperary planning permission: how often it is granted, and how long it takes

How Tipperary compares with the other councils

Tipperary grants more often than most councils. It ranks 2nd of 30 on the share of applications granted, 5 points above the median council (90%). The wait is longer than at the median council: 56 days against 55, so 1 day more for a typical decision. Nine in ten decisions came within 212 days, against 209 days at the median council.

The register records a request for further information on 39% of all the decisions it records, in line with the median council (39%). The register flags only 1 of Tipperary's decisions as a one-off house, too few to compare with other applications.

The number of applications has held steady: 1,478 in 2019 and 1,615 in 2025. The busiest full year was 2021, with 1,894 applications; 20 of the 31 councils peaked in that year.

What Tipperary reported for 2025

Tipperary has the second-highest count for farm buildings, 146, after Cork County, next to 557 dwellings and 48 entries under other functional categories. Commercial premises (40) and public buildings (20) are smaller groups. Public buildings rank 11th nationally, and the other functional entries 9th. The civil engineering line of its return is blank. Refusals were few for its size: 22 across categories, 18 on houses, while 14 councils had larger category totals. It ruled 306 applications invalid. Only Leitrim, Monaghan, Carlow and Sligo reported fewer refusals, and each of them has a smaller return. For all those farm buildings, the return lists no farm-building refusal. Its 3 refusals of public buildings are the joint third-highest count on that line. Social-use buildings (19) and industrial sites (10) complete the list, and 655 applications were decided within 8 weeks, 10th nationally. The register points the same way: only Cavan grants a larger share of its applications than Tipperary. Filings fell to 1,373 in 2023 and climbed back to 1,615 in 2025, the busiest year since 2021. Its 1,085 grants and refusals in the register over 12 months put Tipperary 13th by caseload.

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 Tipperary

In the national register, Tipperary applications link to their files on eplanning.ie/TipperaryCC.