GALWAY PLANNING PERMISSIONS DROP BY ALMOST A QUARTER

Date Published: 24-Mar-2013

Planning permission was granted for just over 100 new homes and premises in Galway in the last quarter of 2012.

The latest figures from the Central Statistics Office show that permission was granted for 11 buildings in the city and 93 new builds in the county between October and December last year.

The overall number of planning permissions granted for new construction in Galway for all of last year is 461.

This compares to 604 planning permissions the previous year, a drop of over 23 percent.