A Chartered Town Planner with over 20 years' experience across private consultancy, development and public-sector assessment, including work as a planning inspector for An Coimisiún Pleanála.
Our monthly read on Ireland's housing delivery, built from the official open data. Latest quarter: 2026 Q2.
Commencement does not convert files already in the system. Which Act governs an application is fixed by the date it was lodged and stays fixed through to appeal, so two regimes will run side by side for several years. We have set out what changes on the day for applicants, for third parties and for permissions already granted, with the section cited on every point. The Department deferred the 13 October 2026 date on 9 October and will notify a new date with advance notice; an application lodged before Part 4 commences stays under the 2000 Act. The commencement order is not yet made.
What changes when Part 4 commences The two Acts comparedFrom appraising a site to managing a large-scale application, and making principled submissions where a proposal falls short. Delivered with a trusted network of architectural and technical partners.
Managing planning applications from pre-planning to grant, including large-scale residential and mixed-use schemes, strategy, consultant-team coordination, and negotiation with planning authorities and An Coimisiún Pleanála.
Learn more →A clear read on what a site can deliver, constraints, density and yield, policy fit and deliverability, informed by both a planning consultant's and a developer's perspective.
Learn more →Submissions to planning authorities and appeals to An Coimisiún Pleanála, argued on the planning merits with evidence.
Learn more →Active involvement in the development of property, coordinating scheme design with selected architectural practices and specialist consultants to bring well-considered projects forward.
Learn more →So we triangulate the official sources, the CSO, building control commencement and completion records, and the Property Price Register, and quantify, every month, where they disagree.
National completions by quarter with rolling 4-quarter total. Source: CSO NDQ01.
A sample from a portfolio of large-scale residential and apartment schemes taken through planning. See the projects page →
Site layout designed in-house and taken through to a grant of planning permission.
✓ Permission securedAn urban apartment scheme in Limerick City, secured through planning.
✓ Permission securedConsidered massing, materials and street frontage, a scheme shaped to fit its urban context.
✓ Permission securedA city-centre corner infill scheme with ground-floor units and apartments above, managed through planning.
✓ Permission secured
AK Planning is a chartered town planning and development consultancy with wide-ranging experience across the planning and development system. We manage large-scale residential applications, advise on the development of property, and bring a regulator's understanding of how planning decisions are made.
The practice combines experience as a private planning consultant, as a developer, and as a planning inspector engaged by An Coimisiún Pleanála, grounding both strategy and advice in how planning decisions are actually made.
For delivery we draw on a roster of selected architectural practices and specialist consultants, assembling the team each scheme needs.
Chartered planning expertise. Led by Adam Kearney BA, MA, MIPI, MRTPI, a Chartered Town Planner through the Royal Town Planning Institute, and a corporate member of the Irish Planning Institute.
AK Planning acts for developers, landowners, investors, funders and public bodies, and for private clients on matters such as retention or regularisation of unauthorised development or a change of use, and occasionally a one-off house, subject to capacity. The first conversation sets out the planning position and the realistic options, on the merits.