EirePlan — Precedent search
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
Filters that search the register
Filter by authority, decision category, status, type and watch state. The query runs server-side against everything held, not against the page of results you happen to be looking at.
Open the file, not just the row
Each result opens onto a detail panel with a map preview, the planning timeline, schedules, and the raw record — plus the council's own documents behind it.
31 registers
14 Oakley Road, Dublin 6
Structured record
“The first-floor rear extension shall be set back a minimum of 1.2 metres from the party boundary…”
Decision notice, p.4 · DCC 3352/25
Read from the file
Keep the ones that matter
Star a decision to keep it, and hand any result straight into a site history report when it turns out to be the one your case rests on.
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
- Every source is listed with its licence on the data-sources page. If a figure is on screen, you can find out where it came from.
Go and look at the data.
A full site — boundary, thirteen applications, and the documents behind them — is open to the public with no account, if you would rather check the data before taking our word for any of this.