Search Irish planning precedents across all 31 authorities
Precedent search
Find what was decided.
Then read why.
Every authority publishes its decisions, and every one of them publishes differently. Precedent search puts them behind a single query — and, unlike a register, does not stop at the decision line.
1,284 decisions · 31 authorities
14 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
18 Greenfield Road, Mount Merrion
42 Knockmeenagh Road, Clondalkin
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31 planning registers
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3352/2514 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6LADCCDecisionGrantedRead from the file
Condition 7Decision notice, p.4 “The first-floor rear extension shall be set back a minimum of 1.2 metres from the eastern party boundary, and the window serving it shall be fitted with obscure glazing.”Reason: to protect the residential amenity of adjoining property.
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1,284 decisions · 31 authorities
14 Oakley Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
18 Greenfield Road, Mount Merrion
42 Knockmeenagh Road, Clondalkin
One shape, whatever the register called it
Thirty-one authorities publish thirty-one ways. The work is in making them answer the same question.
- Every authority
- All thirty-one planning authorities, normalised into one shape — the same fields whatever the source register calls them.
- Resolved to the right council
- Sites are matched against the statutory boundary rather than the nearest record, which is a different answer near a boundary.
- Named and licensed
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