Thinking to myself – now there should be a site that would allow people to add this stuff easily – county, location, area, estate size, number of houses vacant. Grisly – but interesting.

But then I see that www.ghostestates.com is already up an running.

There are currently a big number of issues with a number of councils – the screen scraping routines will need to change – and this takes time.

We’ll try to get to this as soon as possible.

As well as problems with alerts – we’ve also identified problems with some user registrations.

When you submitted your details (username, password, etc) – you should have immediately received a confirmation email with. This has not been happening for all users.

Hopefully, the backlog has now been resolved, and you can track planning applications using email or RSS feeds.

Thanks for bearing with us!

As of this morning -Â these issues have been resolved. We are planning to move the service to a more reliable hosting environment over the next week or so.

We will inform all registered users when this is going to take place.

We think this is a great development, as it means that residents in County Tipperary have easier access to planning application information from their councils. This new comes on the back of our recent improvements in making available Donegal Town Councils as well as Waterford Borough Council.

Users should note that they need to update their alert settings within their user account to reflect these additions. For example, the easiest way to be made aware of all new planning applications in Letterkenny is to create a new alert for Letterkenny Town Council without adding any area (street or townland) names.

If you haven’t already done so – please try the poll on the right hand column, and choose the council that you think should be added.

Do you find it hard to keep track of new planning permsission submitted in your area or locality? We did, so we started thinking of how much easier it would be if you could check these submissions from one location.

Currently we monitor 15 planning authorities in the Republic of Ireland – Carlow, Cavan, Clare, Cork City, Donegal, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Louth, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Sligo, Tipperary (North) and Waterford.

We expect to make more councils available shortly – we’ll let you know immediately when we do.

In the meantime – if you want to receive updates on planning applications in your locality – then sign up for an account. Once logged in you can create your alerts, and choose to receive them by email, RSS or a website widget (if you run a community website).