Why Eireplan exists
Ireland's planning record is public, and it is kept in 31 separate council registers — each with its own search, its own fields and its own name for the same decision. A plain question about a site costs a morning and 31 browser tabs.
EirePlan is that record, assembled: every application from every planning authority in the State, normalised to one entry per site and joined to the national datasets that describe the ground underneath it.
Why we built Eireplan
The idea came from preparing planning applications in Ireland, and from how much of that work went on re-finding things that were already public.
The registers do not disagree about the facts so much as about how to write them down. The same decision carries different wording depending on who issued it, one application type appears under several names across the 31 registers, and nothing joins an application to the site it sits on — so a place with a refusal, a redesign and an appeal reads as three unrelated entries.
The cost of that is measurable, but only once every register is in the same shape. Over August 2025 to July 2026, 16.5% of applications nationally were invalidated on completeness before anyone assessed them, and a decision took 71 days on average.
So that is what we built, and what we keep building: more than 370,000 applications from every planning authority in the State, 99.4% of them placed on the map and joined to 33 national datasets. Figures as at 2026-08-19.
Our approach
Eireplan is built around a simple principle: software should support professional judgement, not replace it.
Planning decisions require nuance, local knowledge, and professional accountability. No tool should pretend otherwise.
We are a data company before we are a software company. The work is collecting the public record, reconciling 31 registers into one shape, joining it to the national datasets, and keeping every figure traceable to the body that published it. The interface is how you read it.
It is also why an absence is shown differently from an answer here. Where the record does not say, the page says it does not say, rather than closing the gap with something plausible.
What Eireplan deliberately does not do:
- ·Make planning decisions or recommendations on strategy
- ·Submit applications on behalf of users
- ·Generate planning reports without professional review
- ·Replace the need for qualified planning expertise
- ·Act as a document store for your own drawings and consultant files — we read the documents the councils publish, not the ones you hold
The team
Eireplan is developed by a team that combines planning experience with software engineering.
Our background includes direct involvement in Irish planning applications, from site assessments and policy research through to submission and decision tracking. We understand the operational realities of planning work, not just the theory.
We're building Eireplan because we believe planning professionals deserve tools that reflect the specificity of their work, rather than generic software adapted from other industries.
General access is open
EirePlan is available to planning teams across Ireland
Our principles
The values that guide how we build and operate Eireplan.
Respect for professional judgement
Planning decisions belong to planners. Eireplan provides structure and information, the professional remains accountable.
Accuracy over speed
Correct policy references matter more than fast answers. We prioritise grounded, verifiable outputs.
Data confidentiality
Planning data is commercially sensitive. Projects are isolated by organisation, with no cross-client visibility.
Incremental improvement
We're not trying to disrupt planning. We're trying to make existing workflows more consistent and less error-prone.
Long-term trust
We're building for sustained professional use, not short-term adoption. Reliability and data responsibility come first.
Built for planning
Eireplan is designed specifically for Irish planning work, not adapted from generic project management or AI tools.
Common questions
What the record covers, how current it is, and where it sits next to the official sources.
- Where can I search planning applications across all of Ireland?
- EirePlan holds the registers of all 31 Irish planning authorities as one searchable record — more than 370,000 applications from 2016 onwards, 99.4% of them placed on a map, refreshed from the registers twice a week. Searching it does not require an account.
- What does EirePlan do that a council's own planning register does not?
- A council register answers questions about that council, filed by application. EirePlan normalises all 31 registers into one entry per site, so a place that was refused, redesigned, resubmitted and appealed reads as one history rather than four unrelated entries, and it joins that history to 33 national datasets — zoning, heritage, environment, services and transport — resolved to the site rather than to the county it sits in.
- How does EirePlan compare to MyPlan.ie?
- MyPlan.ie is the Department's national viewer and shows applications from the past ten years on a map; it is the official State source and the right place to go for that. EirePlan covers the same registers from 2016 onwards but differs in what it does with them: one record per site rather than per application, aggregate statistics per authority that nobody else publishes, the councils' own decision documents read and quoted with citations, and a free REST API over the whole record.
- Is the planning data free to use?
- A free account gives you the national record to search, the map and policy layers, and the assistant. It is not a trial and it does not ask for a card. There is a free REST API over the same record, and aggregate figures may be reused with attribution to EirePlan provided the computation window is carried with them.
- How current is the data, and can I check where it came from?
- The registers are collected twice a week and every figure on the site carries the window it was computed over and the body that published it. Over August 2025 to July 2026, 16.5% of applications nationally were invalidated on completeness before assessment and a decision took 71 days on average — both computed over the published registers, both traceable on the page that shows them.
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