About OpenList
Irish planning information is public, but understanding one application can mean jumping between council pages, unfamiliar status labels, decision records and appeals. OpenList brings those pieces together into one clearer view.
Researching a property? Planning shows what is proposed and, where building-control evidence is matched, what has started. Sold Prices adds the recorded market history.
See our data sources →Why it exists
If you hear that a development is planned near you, you probably do not want to learn the vocabulary and structure of Ireland’s planning system first. You want to know what is proposed, where it is, what stage it has reached and what happened next.
OpenList is built around that question. It searches and organises public records, reconciles inconsistent status wording, connects lifecycle events and highlights significant development so the underlying planning story is easier to understand.
It is not a replacement for the official record. It is a better starting point for finding and understanding it.
A planning application, as a story
The exact route varies, but these are the moments OpenList is trying to make visible and understandable.
An application is registered
A house extension. Fifty homes. A supermarket. A hotel. A wind farm. The planning record starts with a proposal, an address and a reference number. OpenList makes that record searchable and puts the description into a consistent, readable layout.
The application moves
Planning is rarely just an application and a final answer. A council may ask for further information. Revised material can arrive. Dates move. OpenList brings those lifecycle events together so you can see what happened, and in what order, without decoding several disconnected records.
A decision is made
The outcome should be obvious. OpenList separates applications still in progress from decisions, and presents grants, grants with conditions, refusals and other final states in plain language with consistent visual status cues.
Sometimes there is an appeal
Where an appeal can be matched to the original application, OpenList connects the appeal back into the same story. That matters because the final planning position can differ from the council's original decision.
Where building-control evidence is matched
Planning permission does not mean building work has begun. Where public commencement or completion records can be matched confidently to an application, OpenList adds that post-planning evidence while keeping it distinct from the planning decision. A Commencement Notice records the statutory building-control process; it is not proof that every element was physically started.
Find it
Search by place, address or planning reference instead of starting by working out which public system holds the record.
Understand it
Dates, status changes, decisions and appeals make more sense when they are shown as one sequence rather than isolated fields.
Follow it
Planning alerts and matched construction evidence help you follow an area without repeatedly checking for new applications and changes yourself.
Sold Prices
OpenList turns Ireland’s Residential Property Price Register into something you can explore at property, street, estate and local-market level.
Search
Search addresses and places across Ireland and see the recorded price, date and transaction history where available.
Local markets
See sale histories, local medians and nearby streets or estates instead of treating every transaction as an isolated record.
Compare
Explore market trends and use official CSO house-price indices to see how an earlier sale compares with the market today.
Follow
Create alerts for the places that matter to you and return to the map to explore sold-price activity across Ireland.
How OpenList handles the data
OpenList combines public planning information from Irish planning authorities and national datasets. We clean fields, standardise inconsistent wording, connect records and derive presentation such as lifecycle states and timelines.
That processing can make the information much easier to use, but public datasets can be late, incomplete or inconsistent, and OpenList can make mistakes too. For anything consequential, follow the source link and check the relevant planning authority or other official publisher.
Sold-price information comes from the Residential Property Price Register maintained by the Property Services Regulatory Authority. Map data, where shown, comes from OpenStreetMap contributors.
Data sources, licensing and limitations →OpenList is an independent research service for people who want to understand what is happening to places in Ireland.
It is not an estate agent, auctioneer, valuer, broker, planning authority or legal adviser. Public information should be verified with the relevant official source before you rely on it.
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