How do I search planning applications in Co. Longford?

Two ways. The national planning applications map (nationalplanningapplications.ie) carries every council's register on one map: search the address, then look at the streets around it. The planning authority for the towns on this page is Longford County Council; each also runs its own online planning search with the full file, drawings and decision. For a house you are buying, the 300 m around it matters more than the town count.

Which towns in Co. Longford have the most planning activity?

By applications within 2 km of the town centre in the last three years: Longford (106). Counts include extensions, one-off houses and changes of use, not only housing schemes.

Does planning permission nearby change what a house is worth?

A granted permission for a large scheme behind the house can take light, a view or parking, and it means construction traffic for two years. It can also add a school or a shop. Read the description, the decision and the appeal status before you bid. The report lists every application within 300 m of the Eircode with that detail, and checks the house's own planning and building-control file.

Planning applications · Co. Longford

Planning applications in Co. Longford: 106 in three years

106 planning applications were lodged within 2 km of the centres of 1 town in Co. Longford in the last three years, 5 of them for ten homes or more (194 units). Below: the busiest towns, the largest schemes on file, and what to check around one house before you bid.

106

planning applications within 2 km of 1 town centre in the last three years

of them for 10 homes or more

194

residential units in those large applications

Where the planning office is busiest in Co. Longford

Applications lodged within 2 km of each town centre since 2023, from the national planning register. A high count means an active town, not necessarily housing estates: extensions, one-off rural houses, shopfronts and retention applications all count.

Longford

106 applications, 5 large

Largest schemes on file in Co. Longford

Applications for ten homes or more near the towns above, largest first, with the status recorded on the register when this page was built:

80 units, Longford, lodged 2025-01, deemed withdrawn (Longford County Council): the construction of 80 no. two storey residential units comprising 18 no. 3 bed semi-detached units (115 sq. m. floor area each) and 62 no. 3 bed terrace units (24 no. @ 115 sq. m. and 38 no. @ 124 sq. m. floor area) and
54 units, Longford, lodged 2026-01, further information (Longford County Council): the demolition of on-site derelict structures, together with the construction of a residential development of 54 no. dwelling houses, comprising 10 no. one-bedroom, single-storey semi-detached houses, 2 no. two-bedroom s
30 units, Longford, lodged 2024-07, application finalised (Longford County Council): proposed demolition of existing dwelling house together with the proposed construction of a residential development of 30 no. dwelling houses consisting of 28 no. three bedroom two storey terraced type dwelling houses of
20 units, Longford, lodged 2026-07, further information (Longford County Council): a) demolition of existing industrial building boundary fences, b) proposed construction of 20 no. dwellings consisting of 16 no. 3 bed semi-detached / terrace type two storey dwellings and 4 no. 2 bed semi detached / ter
10 units, Longford, lodged 2025-04, application finalised (Longford County Council): (a) demolition of existing disused industrial building, and (b) construction of a 3 storey residential development consisting of 5 no. two bedroom apartments and 5 no. one bedroom apartments, external private and public

A permission that is granted but not yet built is invisible at a viewing. The register shows it. So does the zoning map for the fields around the house, which says what they are allowed to become.

Check one house in Co. Longford

The area tells you the odds. The report tells you about the house.

Enter the Eircode. The free snapshot shows which of the twenty-nine checks flag up. The full report (€24.99, one house, no account) lists every planning application within 300 m of the house with status, decision and appeal, checks the property's own planning and building-control file, and shows the zoning of the land around it.

Or read the sample report first: a real house, 16 pages.

Other checks for Co. Longford

Planning applications by town in Co. Longford

Longford

GuidePlanning search before buying a house: the three files that matter

Questions people ask

How do I search planning applications in Co. Longford?: Two ways. The national planning applications map (nationalplanningapplications.ie) carries every council's register on one map: search the address, then look at the streets around it. The planning authority for the towns on this page is Longford County Council; each also runs its own online planning search with the full file, drawings and decision. For a house you are buying, the 300 m around it matters more than the town count.
Which towns in Co. Longford have the most planning activity?: By applications within 2 km of the town centre in the last three years: Longford (106). Counts include extensions, one-off houses and changes of use, not only housing schemes.
Does planning permission nearby change what a house is worth?: A granted permission for a large scheme behind the house can take light, a view or parking, and it means construction traffic for two years. It can also add a school or a shop. Read the description, the decision and the appeal status before you bid. The report lists every application within 300 m of the Eircode with that detail, and checks the house's own planning and building-control file.

Sources

National planning applications map

Area figures, compiled from public records. They describe the town or county, not any one house. The paid report checks the exact Eircode.