See the planning risks before you commit to a site.
Foreland turns fragmented Irish planning records into cited, decision-ready intelligence. Search relevant precedent, uncover refusal patterns and produce an evidence-backed site brief in minutes.
Findings link back to their source planning records. AI-generated analysis should be reviewed before it is used for professional decisions.
496,343 planning records indexed · all 31 Irish local authorities
Site investigation · Drumcondra, Dublin 9
Illustrative example- Proposal
- 4-storey apartment scheme, ~40 units, 0.4 ha infill site
- Search area
- Dublin City Council · 800 m around the site
Comparable applications
- 3141/21Demolition of workshop and construction of 44 apartments in one 4-storey block with communal open space and 22 car-parking spacesGranted
- WEB1436/2236 apartments in two blocks of 3–4 storeys with reduced car parking (0.4 spaces per unit) adjacent to a quality bus corridorGranted
- 4550/2028 apartments in a 4-storey block on a backland site accessed via existing lanewayRefused
- 2907/2132 apartments in a part 3, part 5-storey building with ground-floor retail unitRefused
Recurring refusal reason
Overlooking / loss of privacy to adjoining gardens · 2 of 2 refusals
Common conditions
Construction & demolition management plan · Section 48 development contribution
Planning history exists. Decision-ready insight does not.
The information that decides whether a site is worth pursuing is already public — spread across portals, decision documents and authorities. Getting from that raw record to a defensible view of risk takes hours of manual searching, and important patterns are easy to overlook.
Fragmented records
Planning history is scattered across 31 local-authority portals, appeal files and scanned documents — with no common format and no way to search across them.
Time-consuming review
Assembling the planning story around one site means hours of manual portal searches, reference by reference, before feasibility work can even start.
Hidden precedent and risk
The refusal three streets away, the appeal that reversed a decision, the condition that keeps recurring — the patterns that decide site risk are easy to miss.
From site question to cited brief.
- 01
Describe the site
Enter a site, address or planning reference — plain language is fine.
- 02
Foreland gathers the record
It identifies the relevant applications and source material around the site, across councils and appeal decisions.
- 03
Patterns surface
Comparable precedent, recurring refusal reasons, common conditions and open uncertainties are pulled into one view.
- 04
You decide, with evidence
Review each finding against its cited source records, then export a decision-ready site brief.
Four ways into the planning record.
Planning precedent
Find nearby or comparable applications and examine how they were decided — filter close to half a million records by council, year, development type and outcome, then open any record in full.
Browse the precedent databaseRisk patterns
Surface recurring refusal reasons, decision times, appeal outcomes and approval-rate trends per authority — the issues most likely to affect a proposed development, computed from the full corpus.
See planning analyticsCited planning answers
Ask questions in plain language and get answers grounded in retrieved planning records and development-plan policy, each with traceable references you can open and verify.
Ask a planning questionSite intelligence briefs
Pull the planning history of an address into one report, and turn the evidence into citation-grounded draft documents for feasibility discussions and early decision-making.
See what's includedBuilt for people deciding on sites.
Development & acquisition teams
The primary use case.
Screen sites before committing serious time or money. Understand what has been approved and refused around a site, what conditions to price in, and where the planning risk actually sits — before the option agreement, not after.
Planning professionals
Faster early feasibility.
Ground feasibility advice in precedent rather than recollection. Pull comparable decisions, recurring refusal reasons and relevant development-plan policy into one place, with references ready for the client note.
Property & investment teams
Evidence for the committee.
Bring planning-record evidence into acquisition and lending decisions: the history of an asset, the direction of decisions in its area, and the uncertainties that should shape pricing.
Not a generic chatbot. Not another document folder.
Foreland does one job: source-grounded planning research for early site decisions. That focus shapes everything about how it works.
- 01Planning-specific retrieval
- Search built around planning records and development-plan policy — references, decisions, conditions and appeals — not a general-purpose model guessing from the open web.
- 02Comparable precedent
- Answers are anchored in what was actually decided on comparable applications, so a view on a site starts from evidence rather than opinion.
- 03Source-level evidence
- Every finding carries references to the underlying records. You can open the source, read the decision and check the interpretation yourself.
- 04Explicit uncertainty
- Where the record is thin, pending or ambiguous, Foreland says so — missing evidence is a finding, not something to paper over.
- 05Decision-ready output
- The end product is a brief someone can take into a feasibility discussion — not a chat transcript or a folder of PDFs.
Investigate the planning record before committing to the site.
Start with an address, a site description or a planning reference. The evidence — and its sources — takes minutes, not days.