If you or your architect wants to speak to a planner before making a planning application you can request a pre-planning consultation.
Guidance on Pre-application Consultation is available on the video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwvd2vWwQB4
Online Pre Planning Self Service Enquiry
This is a free service that will generate a report for your proposed site. Simply input details of your site location and a report highlighting the relevant zoning, geographic features and development policies relevant to your site will be emailed to you within minutes. The report will guide you if it is a feasible location and assist with the preparation of a planning application.
Pre-Planning: Report Generator
Please use the Planning Map Viewer to visualise the various layers contained in your Planning Analysis Report.
Pre-Planning: Request Consultation Meeting
Meath County Council offer a free Pre-planning consultation with a planner for citizens who have a development site and wish to seek the advice on their proposed development. The Planning Authority have developed an online form which will allow you to register your request, submit details of the development, landowner consent forms including sketches and local needs form where required.
To Request a Consultation Meeting please register and complete the application form from here.
Pre-Planning: Request Consultation Meeting
Your request will be acknowledged and once all your required documents are in place, will be reviewed and you will be offered the next available meeting date. You can also check the status of your application by logging back in to your account here.
Pre Planning consultations are generally held every 2nd & 4th Tuesday in the month by telephone or online via MS Teams meeting. A tailored, level-based approach is used with larger or more complex developments which may require a meeting at the Planning Offices.
After the meeting a written record of the consultation will be sent to you and a copy kept by the Planning Authority. This record will become incorporated into the full planning file if an application is subsequently made.
Any advice given is based solely on information supplied during the pre-planning consultation. In accordance with Section 247(3) of the Planning and Development Act 2000-2023, the carrying out of pre planning consultations shall not prejudice the performance by a planning authority of any other of its functions under the Planning and Development Act 2000-2023, or any regulations made under the Act and cannot be relied upon in the formal planning process or in legal proceedings.
For those who do not wish to use the online service and wish to send their request in via hard copy, please send the following documentation to us:
To request a pre-planning consultation, send the following documentation to us:
- Pre – planning consultation request (form provided below)
- Land Registry compliant map - available to purchase from Tailte Éireann at the following link: https://store.osi.ie/professional-products/land-and-property.html or
- Site location map as per OSI scaled 1:2500, with site outlined in red
- Your legal interest in the site. If you are not the owner a letter of consent from the owner of the lands is required
- Local Needs Form (provided below) is required if the pre-planning application is for a one-off rural dwelling
All documentation must be submitted to our Planning Department, Meath County Council, Buvinda House, Navan Co. Meath C15 Y291 before a discussion can be arranged.