Archa covers all 31 Irish local authorities. The database contains over 2 million planning applications with data current to 24–48 hours. Connect at archa.ie/connect — works with Claude and ChatGPT, no technical setup required.
A 2019 permission and a 2024 build are different regulatory products. Lapse rates exceed 80% regardless of developer size, but one-site operators lose everything when a permission expires.
85% of recycled RZLT sites change hands. One-site developers sell under pressure. Institutional buyers acquire at discount. The tax designed to unlock land is concentrating it.
218 extension of duration applications made headlines. At most one in twenty developers with expiring permissions even files one.
218 residential extension of duration applications in Q1 2026 — above the Covid peak. The acceleration started months earlier than anyone noticed.
Only 31% of Dublin's permitted large schemes start construction, vs 68% in Cork. The bottleneck is not getting permission — it is what happens after.
Archa analysed the Kilbride AAP3 planning history — 5 applications, 2 councils, 107 national ABP appeals — to assess the 666-unit refusal.
61 glamping applications and 291 planning documents from Kerry analysed — grant rate, refusal grounds, and appeal outcomes.