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.
From 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.
Tell us about your scheme or site and we'll set out the planning position and the realistic options, clearly, and on the merits.