Galway and the west run the full planning spectrum: a growing city and med-tech corridor, an infrastructure era of contested schemes, and a rural and coastal county where designated landscapes and European sites shape applications other regions would treat as routine. This practice serves all of it entirely remotely - documents by email, advice by phone or video, everything lodged without a Dublin trip - within 48 hours, dates first.
The West, Served Without the Journey
Planning runs on documents and dates, and the west’s distance costs its clients nothing: the site notice photographed and sent, the register read online, the decision or letter scanned across, the advice call at a time that genuinely suits - evenings workable, since these conversations need privacy - and the drafting lodged remotely. The 48-hour standard runs from the email’s arrival; same-day assessment exists for short windows; and the western matters that reach the High Court are heard where this practice already stands, beside the Four Courts. Established 1981: 01 5827148, richardoshea@marymolloysolicitors.com.
Designated Landscapes, Screening Questions - and the Rural File
The west’s geography gives its planning law a particular character: the density of designated sites - SACs, SPAs, the lakes, bays and bogs - pulls environmental screening into files other counties treat as routine, which cuts both ways this practice serves: objectors deploying the environmental ground specifically (the named site, the actual pathway, the survey gap - never boilerplate), and developers closing it before lodgement, because screening error is the ground that keeps deciding cases. Beneath the contested-scheme layer runs the rural file: one-off housing under the county plan’s local-needs criteria with the west’s scenic and Gaeltacht overlays, refused houses sorted honestly and appealed where the sorting supports it, farm exemptions within their precise limits alongside farmsolicitor.ie - and the old-works questions of rural and coastal properties, where Section 5 gets checked before retention concedes anything, and the assessment-class edge gets checked before everything.
Two Free Tools Before You Call
The Planning Permission Checker maps your project against the exemption territory and its traps, and the Planning Deadline Mapper shows which statutory window your situation is standing in. Both run entirely on your device — nothing stored or sent.
The Documents and Your Dates, Today
Site notice, decision, warning letter or CPO envelope - send what exists with the dates it carries. Which window, which route, and whether it's worth it: the honest position within 48 hours, wherever in Ireland you are.
Call 01 5827148