Questions, answered

Our core sources are updated weekly, including newly-filed commencement notices - the sites about to start building. Statistical sources (like CSO PxStat) refresh on their own monthly or quarterly cadence as they publish.

All 31 local authorities in the Republic of Ireland, every county in the State. Northern Ireland's councils run a separate planning system, which we do not cover.

Never. Every lead traces back to an official public record - assembled, de-duplicated and enriched, but never invented. We join records by Eircode and entity, and label enriched fields (like contacts) by confidence so you always know what's verified. Every lead links through to the council's own register, so the source is always one step away.

Two registers, counted separately because they are not the same thing. Around 113,000 planning applications and around 106,000 building-control commencement notices, across all 31 authorities, with more of both flowing in every week. Around 38,000 records are on site right now. Coverage is national: complete from 2019 for commencement notices, and complete from 2024 onward for planning applications, with earlier years included as the councils publish them.

Every lead's public planning description is read by Anthropic's Claude and classified into filterable attributes: scale (minor to major), use-class (residential, retail, office, data centre, industrial, hospitality, mixed-use, civic, agricultural), number of storeys, and trade triggers like demolition, renewables (solar, wind, heat-pump, retrofit, EV) and MVHR or EV-charging. These show as chips on every lead and are filterable in the app and the API. They're derived from public text at organisation and area level only - no personal data - so they're safe to resell.

Yes. The /services hub turns those attributes into ready-made buyer feeds - Demolition, Major projects, Renewables, MVHR & EV-charging, Data centres, plus site services, landscaping, BER, facilities management, cleaning, solar, retrofit, tenders and strategic infrastructure - each a pre-filtered view of the live leads. Browse them at /services (a free account opens it), with a page per niche at /services/{slug}.

Yes - all 331 An Coimisiún Pleanála Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID) projects: data centres, wind & solar farms, battery storage, grid reinforcement, ports and major water/wastewater schemes. These are consented directly by An Coimisiún Pleanála and never appear in the council planning registers, so most leads services miss them. Each is geocoded, enriched with the developer, consent status and environmental (EIAR/NIS) flags, and sized from the capacity stated in the case's statutory notices. Alongside them we track every renewable-energy case lodged with the Commission since January 2025 - technology, county, the planning authority's decision and the consenting route, including the accelerated SID-REDIII route - and flag the applications that won a RESS auction. Browse them at /infrastructure.

Yes, two extra national feeds most leads services miss. The EIA feed (browse at /eia) tracks over 2,000 geocoded mega-projects, updated weekly from the national EIA portal: every environmental-impact-assessed consent since 2017 across all regimes (An Coimisiún Pleanála, foreshore, roads, rail and waste), many of which never appear in the council planning or building-control registers. The fire-safety feed (browse at /fire-safety) tracks 40,859 Fire-Safety Certificate and Disability-Access Certificate applications, and 97% carry floor area. A cert is usually lodged before a site breaks ground, so it is an earlier signal than commencement for fire-stopping, sprinkler, smoke-ventilation, passive-fire, mechanical & electrical and access-consultant trades. Both are organisation and area level only, and reusable under Ireland's open-data licence.

No. We work at the organisation level. Where an applicant is a private individual we never enrich or sell personal phone numbers or email addresses, and anything ambiguous is treated as an individual fail-safe.

Pro unlocks full project detail and the map, the On-site / Solar / Retrofit / Tender feeds, the contractor league table, advanced filters, saved searches and alerts when sites break ground. Its filters reach into the commencement notice itself: approved housing body, protected structure, prefab / MMC, construction method (timber frame, masonry, concrete, structural steel, light gauge steel) and heating fuel, plus heritage and area filters. Pro also shades the map by Local Electoral Area or Electoral Division (leads, on-site work, pipeline value, pre-1980 homes, oil or solid-fuel heating, vacancy, deprivation), with a one-click Retrofit targeting preset, the major projects (EIA) layer and the Census 2022 profile of every lead's area. Max adds the applicant company, company contacts, Company 360 profiles, market & hiring insights, rental yield, the nature designations (NPWS) layer, Strategic Infrastructure in full detail, and the programmatic API with bulk export and webhooks.

The paid tiers turn county-level browsing into a working pipeline: exact project detail and location, who's behind each site and how to reach them, opportunity feeds tuned to your trade, and alerts so you're first to the job rather than last to hear about it.

Save a search, by trade, county, stage or any of the Pro filters, and we email you a daily or weekly digest of the new matches, including the sites that have just broken ground, so you can be first to make contact. Every filter you set carries into the alert.

Curated streams tuned to a use-case: On-site (commencement notices breaking ground now), Solar (every site rated for solar yield, biggest roofs first), Retrofit (homes still on oil or solid fuel), and Tenders (public construction contracts).

Yes, and it's what sets us apart. PlanningLeads closes the whole loop in one app: find the right site, see who's behind it and how to reach them, generate an AI-written first approach grounded in the public record, and track every lead through a built-in CRM. No other Irish construction-leads tool does all four.

Older services hand-research a static list and email it to you, often weeks late and with no way to act on it. PlanningLeads is automated and refreshed every week across all 31 authorities, every lead links to the public record, and it goes further than a list: company contacts, AI-written outreach, a built-in CRM, market intelligence, and an API - self-serve, with a free tier and clear plans rather than a sales demo.

Yes - bulk export and signed webhooks are available on Max, so you can put the data in your own CRM or warehouse and have new matching leads pushed to you automatically. Max is held to a daily row budget of 5,000 rows across export and API reads, which is sized to serve a working integration rather than a full mirror; an Enterprise feed licence removes the budget entirely. This is unique to PlanningLeads in the Irish market.

Enterprise is a data licence issued to an organisation rather than a plan you buy at checkout. It adds the GeoJSON feeds that QGIS and ArcGIS read natively, uncapped bulk export, a higher rate limit, redistribution rights and a written service level. It follows an agreement and light due diligence. Once that is signed we record the licence against your organisation and your named contact gets a one-time link to create the API key themselves.

Nobody. A key is generated in your browser, shown once, and only its hash is stored, so there is no screen, endpoint or export that can reveal it to us or to anyone else. We cannot re-send a key; if you lose one you revoke it and create another. Separately, whether someone here is an administrator is read from the server's configuration rather than from the database, no endpoint can grant that role, and every privileged action taken against an account is written to an append-only log.

Yes. Email privacy@planningleads.ie and we'll add you to a permanent suppression list: your personal data and any enriched contact stop being served immediately, everywhere, and survive our weekly data rebuild. See our Privacy Notice for the full process.