Kildare tops house planning permission list for third quarter of 2020
County accounts for half the Mid East region square metres
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Kildare looks set to be very busy on the house construction front over the next year or so if the number of planning permissions granted for new houses alone is a yardstick.
Figures for the third quarter of this year show the quantity of Kildare permissions, in terms of the number of square metres (sqm), was the highest in the State.
Permission has been granted for 238,000 sqm of housing development.
Kildare was followed by Dublin city (211,000 sqm), Meath (171,000 sqm), Cork and county Cork (100,000 sqm).