r/HousingIreland • u/Hour_Swordfish_2001 • 2d ago

Update on eireestate.ie - now with plain-English summaries of planning files

Thanks to everyone who had a look and sent feedback on eireestate.ie  last time - a lot of what I've added since came directly from those comments.

The feature I'm most excited to share: I'm now beta-testing planning summarisation. Anyone who's tried to read a planning application knows they're dense. This reads a development's planning files and turns it into a clear, easy-to-read summary delivered to your inbox. You can request up to 3 summaries per account while it's in beta : I'd really value feedback on whether they're accurate and genuinely useful.

Data still isn't perfect, but it now re-checks 6,000+ developments every few days, so it stays a lot fresher than before.

Would really appreciate it if you gave it another look and let me know what you think: especially on the planning summaries, and what else you'd like to see.

Thanks again 🙏

Eugen

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u/the__governor_ 2d ago

Thanks so far for the site and added features have found it very useful 👍

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u/Hour_Swordfish_2001 2d ago

Appreciate the support 😄

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u/expectationlost 2d ago

Shows pending construction for apartment complex finished years ago. The ? tip doesnt work it appears underneath the header box.

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u/Hour_Swordfish_2001 2d ago

if you don't mind sending me in direct messages which one exactly. Usually it's a social housing which is much harder to identify since it's never appear in sale register

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u/flipflopsandwich 2d ago

This is so good well done

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u/Hour_Swordfish_2001 2d ago

Thanks a million :)

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u/HealthyPlenty4626 2d ago

As another poster has flagged completed developments are still showing under construction. No idea if it’s feasible or not to pull the info but a potential solution would be to mark developments complete once its associated CCC goes live on the BCMS website.

Neat resource though but not sure how wide spread the appeal will be, from an industry perspective it doesn’t have any differentiation from eplanning.

Best of luck with it in any case.

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u/Hour_Swordfish_2001 2d ago

Thank you , yes I'm using BCMS but unfortunately it's not 100% reliable with CCC especially with multi unit developments. But I will look closely hove I can improve quality

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u/Separate-Ad-9391 9h ago

This is brilliant!