Every property has a planning story. Read it before you bid.
We read every planning file the public record holds online, for the property itself, the neighbours, and the land around it, and we track down the older files that survive only on paper at the council. Then we deliver one clearly written report of everything a buyer should know.
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Planning report: Glenview House, Delgany, Co. Wicklow
A planning file can hold what a viewing never shows
Planning documents are where a property's real history lives. Depending on the site, the file may contain:
- Flood risk assessments
- Percolation & water-table tests
- Wastewater treatment layouts
- Radon barrier specifications
- Conditions attached to the permission
- Refusal reasons on past applications
- Appeals and their outcomes
- Traffic and sightline studies
- Tree surveys & protected structures
- Archaeology & heritage reports
- Site notices and objections
- Unbuilt permissions that never expired
Threads together the entire planning history in one easy to read document
An excerpt from a real report, compiled from the actual public record around one Dublin 15 address:
Planning report: Laurel Lodge, Castleknock, Dublin 15
This property's own file
The house was built under a 1997 permission for a detached dwelling and garage [F97A/1102], and that file still binds it: condition 3 requires that "the garage shall be retained for use as a garage and shall not be converted to habitable accommodation without a prior grant of permission". A single storey rear extension was granted in 2009 subject to five conditions [FW09A/0217]. The approved site layout and drawings from both files are included in the report.
On and around the site
The street shows steady, small-scale activity: 121 applications within 400 metres, 90 granted and 22 refused, quickening since 2023 with extensions and garden rooms. The refusals are worth reading. Fingal County Council turned down a garden-room retention [FW25A/0423E] and a demolition-and-extension scheme [FW24A/0259E] on this street pattern; if you plan to extend, these files show exactly where the council draws the line…
What your report covers
The property itself
A written timeline of every application on the site, covering extensions, retentions and conversions: what was sought, what was decided, and the conditions that still bind the house you're buying.
The street and beyond
Approvals and refusals around you, and what they signal, from a neighbour's two-storey extension to a 400-home scheme approved behind the hedgerow.
What's coming
Live permissions that haven't broken ground, commencement notices already lodged, and developments still moving through the system nearby.
Questions for your solicitor
The specific questions this property's record raises, so your conveyancing spend goes exactly where it matters.
How it works
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Instantly: how many applications surround the property, granted and refused, and how active the area has been.
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Questions, answered
Where does the information come from?
From Ireland's public planning system: the planning registers of all 31 local authorities, An Bord Pleanála's case records, and the national commencement registers. Every fact in a report carries the reference of the file it came from, so you or your solicitor can verify it at source.
Is this legal advice or a survey?
No. It's an information report: a readable account of the public planning record. It's designed to make your conversations with your solicitor and engineer sharper, not to replace them.
How current and how far back is the record?
Every report runs a live search of the council's own planning register at the moment you order it, on top of our national records store. That reach extends back as far as each register allows, in many counties to the 1960s; where something looks live or pending, the report says so plainly.
What if the property has no planning history?
That's a finding in itself, and the area scan always delivers: what's been approved and refused around you, and anything substantial moving through the pipeline nearby.
Could I gather this myself?
In principle, yes: every source we use is public. In practice the council registers can't be searched by Eircode, older entries hide behind spelling variants of townlands and house names, each document opens one scanned page set at a time, and appeals and commencement records live on separate systems again. Done properly it's a day or two of practised work per property. The usual shortcut, a legal planning search ordered through your solicitor, costs more than this report and returns a list of reference numbers with nothing read.
What if you can't produce my report?
If we can't compile a meaningful report for an address you've paid for, we refund you in full.