Tipperary County Council praised for its approach to planning permissions

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) has published its Annual Overview of the Planning System 2021.

The 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.

The report also identifies and makes observations on some of the key trends which reflect Ireland’s and each local authority’s planning performance in 2021.

It includes key statistics and indicators relating to Tipperary County Council.

Some of the key findings in the report relating to Tipperary County Council are:

- The planning invalidation rate (the percentage of invalidated planning applications as a proportion of all applications made) in Tipperary decreased from 31.2% om 2020 to 29.5% in 2021

- In Tipperary in 2021, 97% of all planning applications were granted permission while 3% were refused. The national average grant-rate in 2021 was 88.5%

- In total, there were 1,165 planning applications approved and 33 refused by Tipperary County Council in 2021

- Overall in 2021, 3.9% of planning application decisions made by Tipperary County Council were appealed to An Bord Pleanála. Of these, 18.2% were reversed. The national average rate of appeal in 2021 was 6.7%, the average reversal rate was 27.7%

- Tipperary County Council had a total of 107 sites designated by local authorities as either vacant and/or derelict. This contrasts with the CSO figure for the county of 7,439.