Every property has a planning story. Read it before you bid.
We read the complete public planning record: the property itself, the street, the fields behind it. Then we deliver a 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
Reads like a briefing, not a database dump
An excerpt from a real report, compiled from the actual public record around one Dublin 15 address:
Planning report: Laurel Lodge, Castleknock, Dublin 15
The area at a glance
This is a settled estate with steady, small-scale planning activity: 121 applications within 400 metres, of which 90 were granted and 22 refused. Activity has quickened recently, with 51 decisions since 2023, driven almost entirely by extensions, attic conversions and garden rooms rather than new development.
Refusals worth reading
Fingal County Council has refused several rear-garden structures on this street pattern in the last two years, including a retention application for a single-storey garden room [FW25A/0423E, decided November 2025] and a demolition-and-extension scheme [FW24A/0259E, August 2024]. If you plan to extend, these files tell you 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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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 is the record?
Our core record is refreshed continuously from the public registers. Very recent filings can take time to appear in national data; 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.
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.