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Automated Pre-Planning Report Service

Using PrePlanning.ie, it is now possible for you to generate a detailed pre-planning report. Reports are useful for planning applicants, agents and local authority staff that want to get access to quick information for any Irish site.

Use our self-service area to generate your site report, and we will deliver it to you within a few minutes.

Site Location

Multiple display
options & GIS
metadata.

Planning
Report

Recent applications
near to your site,
with ePlan links.

3D Shadow
Analysis GIS

View your site at
simulated heights
and view shadow for
any time of the year.

NPWS Report

Includes SAC, SPA,
NHA & pNHA.

Popup Maps

Unique GIS with
individual
"Site-to-Result"
popup layouts

Edit &
Customize
in MS Word

Convert to a client
report by exporting
to Microsoft Word.

Appropriate
Assessment
Screening

Species & Wetland
report for 15km
buffer from your site.

Appropriate
Assessment
Screening

Species & Wetland
report for 15km
buffer from your site.
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Report Contents:

  • Nearby Planning Applications: Details of planning applications within 1km of your report's development site.
  • National Parks & Wildlife: Details of any SAC, NHA or SPA sites within 15km of your site (includes AA screening report)
  • Infrastructure Constraints: Details of any motorway, national, regional or local roads near your site.
  • Buildings & Conservation: Details of any NIAH or national monument sites near your development site.
  • Geology & Soils: Details of Aquifer, Vulnerability, Bedorck and Soils information information for your development site.
  • Water Framework Directive: Details of your river catchment and sub-catchment for your development site.
  • Nearby Property Sales: Learn about the housing market for your development location based on recent property sales.
  • Administrative Boundaries: Details of any townland, electoral division, Council, municipal district or Gaeltacht constraints.
  • 2D and 3D TIme Maps: View your site in relation to other report features, and generate a 3D shadow analysis map for any day.
  • "Bring your own data": Councils and agents can include their own GIS data in reports such as development plans, zonings and landscape characterization.

Multiple Benefits:

Massive Time Saver

Council planners, agents, and planning applicants can generate a full report for any planning file with 50 lookup GIS layers in just a few seconds! Try it out now for any part of Ireland.

PrePlanning.ie presents all report information on a single page, so it is a straightforward and quick process to learn everything about a development site without relying on cumbersome mapping systems. View Samples.

NPWS Appropriate Assessment Reports

You will also receive a pre-populated AA Screening report for each site boundary, with a 15km area of interest using SPA and SAC boundaries. This report includes details on species and habitat constraints, which can be difficult to understand from NPWS source data. PrePlanning.ie presents this information in an easy to understand way.

All stakeholders are better informed.

Planning applicants can learn everything about their development site, and they can bring this knowledge to a pre-planning consultation at the local authority.

Meanwhile, Councils can ask planning applicants and agents to share a PrePlanning.ie report ID so everyone is on the same page. This speeds up the process and everyone is working from the same report.

Searchable Planning Files

Council staff can log into PrePlanning.ie to search existing planning files. This means that planners can view a single report for a current planning file at the touch of a button.

Shadow Analysis

Larger structures will often be contentious in terms of shadow analysis. PrePlanning.ie includes a 3D mapping tool to simulate a development structure at a preferred height, with shadow analysis available for any day/time of the year.

Cloud-Hosted Service

There is no software or GIS data management required for any Council or agency. PrePlanning.ie is a cloud solution and is instantly available for any Council. Councils can also deploy PrePlanning.ie as a branded solution for their customers.

Get Started:

You can now create your own pre-planning reports directly through this website. If you want to use the service for multiple reports, then get in touch to create a business account. Local authorities can also deploy preplanning.ie as a Council-branded service to assist with pre-planning consultation clinics (view case studies).
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Please call us on (056) 7820020 to request a Teams/Zoom demo of the service.