Strategic infrastructure

Rail projects in Ireland

Projects of this type consented directly by An Coimisiun Pleanala, the national planning body, rather than by a local council. They never appear on a council planning register, which is why they are easy to miss. Each one links to its public case file.

5 projects tracked

Most schemes of this kind never take this route. Another 29 applications sit on the council registers, which we track as well. A free account opens them.

Dublin

Railway (Luas Finglas - Broombridge to Charlestown) Order [2024]321278
DART + Coastal North Railway Order 2024 - Northern Line between Dublin City Centre and Drogheda including the Howth Branch320164
DART+ South West Electrified Heavy Railway Order - Hazelhatch & Celbridge Station to Heuston Station, and Hesuton Station to Glasnevin316119
Railway (Metrolink - Estuary to Charlemont via Dublin Airport) Order [2022]314724
DART+ West Railway Order - Dublin City to Maynooth and M3 Parkway314232

Other types

Data Centres Wind Energy Solar Farms Battery Storage Grid & Substations Water & Wastewater Roads & Transport Marine & Coastal Drainage & Flood

Capacity, decision dates and the applicant behind each project are on the full directory. Utilities and network teams can pull the whole set into QGIS or ArcGIS Pro as a GeoJSON layer.

Enterprise

Need this pipeline inside your own GIS?

The strategic-infrastructure pipeline is available as a live GeoJSON layer for QGIS and ArcGIS Pro, with the applicant on every project and the connection voltage on 55% of them - under an Enterprise feed licence.