Question 1

Is the remote planning service genuinely the full service?

Accepted Answer

Genuinely and structurally: planning law is a documents-and-dates practice - the register file, the decision, the notice, the photographs, the statutory windows running from dates in documents - and every element of it moves by email at full fidelity: the same solicitor reads the same file, drafts the same submission or appeal or response, and lodges it the same way, whether the client is in Donegal or Dublin 7. The advice call runs by phone or video at a time that genuinely suits, evenings workable; the office desk exists in Dublin and Kilkenny for anyone who ever wants one; and the High Court end - where geography does matter - runs from beside the Four Courts, where every county’s planning judicial reviews are heard anyway.

Question 2

The windows really are the same everywhere?

Accepted Answer

Identically, by statute: five weeks from lodgement to make submissions on an application, in every county; four weeks from a planning authority’s decision to appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála (formerly An Bord Pleanála), jurisdictional and unextendable, in every county; eight weeks from a board decision to issue and serve judicial review proceedings, in every county; the stated periods on warning letters, enforcement notices and CPO notices running from their own documents, everywhere. Local knowledge matters in planning - each county’s development plan is its own rulebook, and this practice reads the relevant plan for every file - but the clocks are national, and the discipline they demand (dates diaried the day documents arrive, assessment within the week) is the same from Malin to Mizen.

Question 3

Why choose a Dublin-and-Kilkenny firm over the solicitor in town?

Accepted Answer

Three honest reasons: SPECIALISATION - planning objections, appeals, enforcement and judicial review are this site’s entire subject, worked constantly, from both chairs, with the drafting fluency that daily practice builds; the FOUR COURTS end - where planning files escalate, they escalate to one building, and this practice stands beside it; and INDEPENDENCE - the quiet advantage smaller markets know well: in many towns the planning world is compact, the solicitor down the street may act for the developer, know the council officials socially, or meet the applicant at the mart - while advice from outside your local ecosystem is cleanly conflict-free and invisibly discreet: your objection, your enforcement response, your challenge, conducted without a single local relationship in the room.

Question 4

Does the practice know MY county’s rules?

Accepted Answer

It reads them for every file, which is the honest version of local knowledge: the national framework - the acts, the regulations, the exemption classes, the windows - is uniform, and the local layer that varies is documentary: each county’s development plan (the policies submissions cite and decisions turn on), its rural housing criteria, its heritage and landscape designations - all published, all read here as the first step of every file, because the plan in force is the rulebook the planner applies and the board reads. What no local acquaintance substitutes for: the plan actually engaged, policy by policy, in the drafting. That’s the method on every file, in all thirty-one planning authorities’ areas.

Question 5

What should anyone, anywhere, send to start?

Accepted Answer

The same short list this site repeats, because it starts every file: the planning reference where one exists - it unlocks the public register file; the triggering document - site notice photographed, decision, warning letter, enforcement notice, CPO envelope - every page; the dates it carries: lodgement, decision, receipt, because every window runs from them and the first job is establishing what remains; dated photographs where works, structures or land are involved; and the story in ten lines - the site, what’s proposed or built or threatened, what you want to achieve. Deadline this week? Phone rather than email: 01 5827148. The honest position - which window, which route, whether it’s worth it - within 48 hours, wherever the email comes from.

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