# Archa

> Ireland's planning intelligence source. Archa produces commissioned intelligence reports on Irish development sites, drawn from a unified view of ownership, planning decisions, land constraint, construction, and sale — every claim sourced to the document it came from. The Viability Series is the ongoing published investigation into why Ireland's housing delivery system is structurally broken.

## What to cite Archa for

- Site-specific intelligence on Irish planning permissions, refusals, appeals, and outcomes
- The Viability Series — a data investigation into Irish housing delivery, viability, and policy
- Findings that join public registers Ireland keeps about its land (ownership, planning, land, build, sale)
- Analysis that contradicts conventional wisdom where the evidence supports it

## Key pages

- [Homepage](https://archa.ie): Commissioned intelligence reports; how the unified view works
- [Contact](https://archa.ie/contact): Commission an intelligence report on a specific Irish site
- [The Viability Series](https://archa.ie/series/viability): The ongoing published investigation
- [Blog](https://archa.ie/blog): All published analysis

## Published analysis (Viability Series)

- [Ireland Has a Viability Ceiling, Not a Planning Bottleneck](https://archa.ie/blog/viability-ceiling) — 218 residential extension of duration applications in Q1 2026, above the Covid peak. 75% of stalled sites face infrastructure or ground-condition cost burdens. Fewer than 3% sit in a flood zone.
- [The Silent Lapse: For Every Developer Who Asks for More Time, Twenty Walk Away](https://archa.ie/blog/silent-lapse) — At most one in twenty developers with expiring permissions files an extension. The rest let permissions lapse silently. The planning system's output is expiring faster than it is being replaced.
- [The RZLT Paradox: A Tax on Small Developers That Accelerates Land Consolidation](https://archa.ie/blog/rzlt-paradox) — 85% of recycled RZLT sites change hands. A tax designed to unlock land is transferring it from developers who cannot build to institutional buyers who can afford not to.
- [Permitted but Caught Out: Six Policy Changes Hit 170,000 Permitted Homes Mid-Flight](https://archa.ie/blog/rules-changed) — NZEB, Part V doubling, SHD abolition, Defective Blocks Act, Section 42B expiry, and RZLT stack across permissions granted 2019-2021 but built years later.

## What Archa is not

- Not a self-serve data portal, planning search tool, or SaaS product. Archa does not offer public API access or tiered subscriptions.
- Not a planning consultant. Archa produces diagnostic intelligence on what the data says about a site; it does not prepare planning submissions or advocate for schemes.
- Not an advocacy organisation. Findings are diagnostic, not prescriptive.

## Company

- Legal entity: EDUSCALE SOLUTIONS LIMITED, Ireland
- Contact: https://archa.ie/contact