What Irish planning data shows: coverage across the 31 authorities on Vizlegal
How Vizlegal brings planning applications from all 31 Irish authorities, An Coimisiún Pleanála, and judicial reviews into one searchable platform.
A planning matter does not stay in one place. It begins as an application to a local authority, and it can move to An Coimisiún Pleanála, to a High Court judicial review, and beyond. The record of each stage sits with a different body, in a different system, and following a single matter from start to finish has traditionally meant checking each one separately.
Vizlegal brings that data together. Planning applications from all 31 Irish planning authorities are on the platform, alongside An Coimisiún Pleanála cases, planning judicial reviews, and Land Registry Notices, Rules, and Practice Directions. For anyone whose work depends on planning data, whether that is a solicitor, a planning consultant, or an in-house team, the value is having the chain in one searchable place.
The breadth of the coverage
The planning applications database on Vizlegal spans all 31 local authorities, with more than 1.9 million applications structured and searchable. This is the only database that brings every Irish planning authority together in one place. Alongside it sit An Coimisiún Pleanála cases and the High Court judicial reviews that follow from planning decisions.
Because the data is structured rather than scattered across separate portals, a search runs across the whole picture at once. A user can look at how a matter has moved through the system, from the original application through appeal and review, without moving between websites and search interfaces.
Following the chain
The value of holding the data together is that a planning matter can be followed as a single thread. Case Timelines draw the procedural history of a matter across its stages: planning application, An Coimisiún Pleanála, High Court judicial review, Court of Appeal, and Supreme Court. What would otherwise be a manual reconstruction becomes a single view.
For a practitioner picking up a file, or advising on how a decision fits into a wider pattern, that context matters. It shows where a matter started, which body has dealt with it, and where it stands now.
Tracking and alerts
Planning data changes constantly. New applications are lodged, decisions issue, and reviews are filed. Rather than checking authority portals one by one, a user can bookmark a matter and set an alert, so that a new decision or filing on a tracked matter arrives by email as it happens.
For teams advising on planning, housing, and infrastructure, that shifts the work from watching several sources to being told when something material lands.
Getting started
The planning coverage on Vizlegal is a working resource: every Irish planning authority, the appeals body, and the courts that review their decisions, in one searchable platform. It is built for the people who need to find, follow, and understand planning matters without assembling the picture by hand.
To see the planning coverage against the matters you work on, book a demo or get in touch at vizlegal.com/contact.