Most contested places

Each bubble is a single planning application. The bubble’s area is proportional to the number of public submitters recorded on the application’s page on eplanning.ie. A "submitter" can be a private citizen, a residents’ association, or a statutory consultee (e.g. Irish Water, Inland Fisheries Ireland) — the eplanning.ie portal does not distinguish them.

Sample scope. 1,005 applications received between 2022-01-04 and 2024-12-23, randomly stratified at 42 per authority across all 24 local authorities on the eplanning.ie portal.

Not on this map. Applications under the Agile (Citizen Portal) system are excluded — that is Dublin City, Fingal, South Dublin, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown, Wexford, Cork City & County, and Galway City. The Agile platform does not expose a public submissions listing API, so per-application counts cannot be sourced the same way. Rolling those councils in is tracked separately.

Cap at 10. The eplanning.ie portal paginates submitter lists at 10 per page; submitter_count values of 10 indicate "at least 10" (true count may be higher).