Can I view all planning applications lodged nationwide?

the_amazing_raisin

Hi all,

Looking for some tips here, I'm currently checking the planning lists in several counties once a week to see if there's been any applications for new EV charging hubs

It's pretty tiresome to click through each of the counties various search pages, especially considering they all seem to be querying the same database underneath

So I'm wondering if there's a way to see the list of planning applications for the past 7 days for the whole country in one go?

I've found a hive works map which shows a map view of all applications, so there's definitely a dataset somewhere with what I need.

Problem is the map isn't very useful as it seems to have fairly limited search functions, and it can't generate a list that I can see

muffler

For Donegal take your pick from the list of new applications in the last 7, 14, 28 days etc

I dont know if other counties have the same data available or not. There is a national directory for applications all around the country but I havent a link for it. Someone else might have it.

the_amazing_raisin

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121052958#Comment_121052958

Yeah I can cycle through each county and view the lists, but there's no whole country view

muffler

This any good to you?

the_amazing_raisin

I've kind of found an answer, I dug into the link from @muffler and was able to find the underlying data source

There's a query system which can be accessed via this link

https://services.arcgis.com/NzlPQPKn5QF9v2US/arcgis/rest/services/IrishPlanningApplications/FeatureServer/0/query

It's not exactly user friendly but if you're familiar with SQL then you can figure it out. I was able to assemble a list of recent applications for EV chargers using the query below in the "where" field

ReceivedDate >= '2023-09-01 12:00:00 AM' AND (DevelopmentDescription LIKE '%EV charg%' OR DevelopmentDescription LIKE '%ev charg%' OR DevelopmentDescription LIKE '%electric vehicle%')'DevelopmentDescription' LIKE '%EV charg%' OR 'DevelopmentDescription' LIKE '%ev charg%' OR 'DevelopmentDescription' LIKE '%electric vehicle%'

There's a list of the possible fields here

https://services.arcgis.com/NzlPQPKn5QF9v2US/ArcGIS/rest/services/IrishPlanningApplications_FVLayer/FeatureServer/0