Number of new houses to get planning permission falls

Covid-19 restrictions reflected in latest data

The CSO said that Covid-19 restrictions were reflected in the data with planning permissions granted for April and May significantly lower than those from the same months of last year.

The number of planning permissions granted for new houses in the second quarter of 2020 fell by more than a third due to Covid-19 restrictions. 

Planning permissions for houses during April, May and June fell by 37.9% when compared to the same period last year, according to the Central Statistics Office.