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Planning & Feasibility Audit

SITE FEASIBILITY & RISK REPORT

Compiled by Precedent.ie Site Intelligence • Human-checked before delivery

Target AddressRear of 14 Dartmouth Road, Ranelagh, Dublin 6
Site EircodeD06 K2X8
Proposed ProjectSubdivision of rear garden & construction of 2-storey mews
Report StatusManually Verified PDF

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY & POLICY ALIGNMENT

HIGH RISK DETECTED
Protected Structure Proximity

Site lies within 35m of Dartmouth Square Conservation Area (RPS Ref 2145). Section 16.10.16 of Dublin CDP strictly controls height ratios. Similar mews applications on this lane were refused due to visual amenity.

POLICY ALIGNED
Zoning Compliance (Z1 Residential)

The land is zoned as Z1 (to protect, provide and improve residential amenities) under GeoHive national land use database. Proposed residential use is fully permissible in principle under current zoning regulations.

2. ENVIRONMENTAL & GEOSPATIAL AUDIT (PostGIS)

Flood Risk Zone Zone C (Low Risk)No OPW CFRAMS intersection.
NPWS Ecology Clear (SAC/SPA)No protected habitats within 5km.
Precedent Match 5 Local Precedents3 Refusals, 2 Grants identified.
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Reports Grounded in Official Irish Public Data

Local Authorities & ABP209k+ Applications, 8.5k Appeals
Office of Public WorksOPW Flood CFRAMS
NPWS IrelandSAC/SPA Boundaries
GeoHive / GZTNational Land Use Zoning
Local AuthoritiesCounty Development Plans
Geological Survey IrelandSubsoil & Peat 50k

Tired of searching through decades of PDFs?

You're losing hours cross-referencing local development plans, searching An Bord Pleanála decisions, and guessing how a planner might interpret subjective policies.

1

Missed Precedents

Missing a crucial refusal on the same street can lead to a rejected application and a frustrated client.

2

Policy Overload

Manually checking proposals against 500-page Development Plans is slow, tedious, and prone to human error.

3

Unbillable Hours

Hours spent doing initial site feasibility research are often hard to bill back to the client fully.

Reclaim Your Billable Hours

Stop spending half a day hunting down county development plan PDFs and zoning coordinates.

Metric
Manual Desk Research
Precedent.ie Report
Time Investment
4 to 6 Hours
30 Seconds submit
Cost (Lost Billing)
€400 - €1,200 (at €100-€200/hr billable rate)
€149 flat cost (direct pass-through expense)
Search Breadth
Siloed portal checks & map tracing
Parallel audits across six official datasets + 209k precedents
Deliverable Format
Scattered screenshots & notes
Formatted, print-ready feasibility PDF

💡 ROI Proof: If this report saves just 1.5 hours of your research time, it has fully paid for itself.

Find the refusal two doors down — before it finds you

We search 209,000+ Irish planning decisions by meaning, keyword, and distance from your site, then cite the most relevant local decisions — grants and refusals — with the real distance to each one.

  • Similar projects near your site, not just anywhere in Ireland
  • Refusal rationales extracted from inspectors' reports
  • Refusal trends for the area, so you can design around them
> Query: Corner site sub-divisions in D4

Know what the zoning actually allows

Your site's land-use zoning is looked up in the national GeoHive zoning database and set against the county development plan objective — so you know whether your proposed use is permissible in principle before you spend money on design.

  • Zoning class and objective for the exact site coordinates
  • Permissible and open-for-consideration uses spelled out
  • On-site planning history from the local authority record
Policy Verified

Proposal accords with Section 15.13.3 (Infill Development) of the Dublin City CDP 2022-2028.

Six environmental & ground checks, run in parallel

Every report screens the site against the constraints that derail applications and budgets: OPW flood extents, protected habitats (SAC/SPA/NHA), Protected Structures nearby, GSI subsoil and peat conditions, and the local appeal history around the site.

  • Flood risk from OPW national mapping (CFRAM/PFRA)
  • Subsoil classification & peat screening (GSI Quaternary 50k)
  • Ecology (SAC/SPA/NHA) and Protected Structures within range
SITE AUDIT: DUBLIN 8
Flood Zone A
No SAC/SPA
Residential Z1
28 Nearby Applications

A report you can hand straight to a client

Findings arrive as a structured, print-ready PDF: an executive summary with the critical alerts up front, a scored risk register with mitigations and owners, and an actionable roadmap of next steps — reviewed by a person before it's sent.

  • Scored risk register (likelihood × impact) with mitigations
  • Actionable roadmap: the surveys and assessments to commission next
  • Human-checked before delivery — no raw AI output
> searching 209,000+ planning cases...
> running flood / ecology / subsoil checks...
✓ 5 local precedents cited — nearest 60m
Compiling PDF...

The Precedent Data Universe

Aggregating Ireland's most critical planning & environmental datasets.

Planning Cases
Local CDPs
NPWS Ecology
OPW Floods
GZT Zoning
RPS Heritage

Why Precedent exists

Irish planning data is public, but it isn't usable. Decisions sit in scattered portals, development plans run to 500 pages, and the refusal two doors down that sinks your application is buried in a PDF nobody reads until it's too late.

I built Precedent to close that gap: one report that pulls together the precedents, zoning, and environmental constraints for a specific site, grounded in the official registries listed above. Every report is checked by a person before it's sent, and you only pay after you've received it — if the data is public, the risk of looking at it shouldn't be yours.

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Peter Hynes
Founder, Precedent.ie

Simple, transparent pricing

Get a detailed site feasibility & risk report checked by our adversarial AI and verified manually.

Planning Feasibility Report

€149/site

One-off payment. Delivered in 24 hours.

  • Local planning precedents matching your project
  • Zoning & GZT policy compliance audit
  • Geospatial risk scan (Floods, Protected Structures, NPWS Protection)
  • Manually verified

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Frequently Asked Questions

How does the report ordering process work?

Simply click "Order Custom Site Report", enter the Eircode of the site, and describe your proposed project. Our site intelligence engine immediately runs parallel analysis across planning cases, environmental risks, and local development plan policies. We check the compiled data for completeness and email you a print-ready PDF feasibility report within 24 hours. You only pay after you receive the report.

What data is the AI report grounded in?

We query official public registries and spatial databases automatically to compile your report:

  • 209,000+ Planning Case Details
  • Council & ABP Decision Reports
  • NPWS Ecological Boundaries
  • OPW Flood Risk Zones (CFRAMS)
  • Record of Protected Structures
  • GeoHive National Land Use (GZT)
  • GSI Subsoil & Peat Mapping (50k)

Will this replace traditional planning consultants?

No. Precedent reports are designed to augment professionals, not replace them. The report compiles and cross-references data to save you 6+ hours of manual desk research, giving you a structured overview of potential pitfalls so you can draft better-informed planning arguments and client feasibility reviews.

Can I expense this report to my client's project?

Yes. Every report purchase is billed as a one-off business expense (VAT invoice provided). Planners and architects typically pass this cost through directly to their client's project expenses, making the service completely cost-neutral to their own firm.

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