Commencement digest

Get works starting in your counties.

Choose the counties and trades you care about. PlanningBrief sends privacy-safe commencement notice lines from official sources, with scope signals where planning documents support them.

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Commencement digest

Works starting in your counties.

Weekly default

Weekly list of works starting in your counties - built for trades. These are commencement notices filed on official sources, not contractor appointments.

Counties

Choose one or more counties, or All Ireland.

Trades of interest (optional)

Matching lines are pinned first. Scope signals come from planning documents and are available for larger schemes. Agile councils including Dublin, Cork and Wexford do not expose documents for this feature.

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Commencement digest will start from: Counties: Dublin. Adjust the fields below before creating the digest.

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Preview count updates from the current query. First run records a baseline. Later emails send only when new matching records appear.
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PlanningBrief sends no alert email until the confirmation link is opened. Source-linked planning register rows; verify against the official file before acting. Value bands are indicative construction-cost estimates, not contract values.

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What a useful alert should tell you.

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New planning lead

42 dwellings granted in your county

Opens the lead page with stage, value band, applicant/agent where available, official file link and related projects.

Going to site

Commencement filed with builder named

Shows the lower-risk public fields: works, town/county, commencement date, planning ref and builder firm where available.

Tender deadline

Construction tender closes soon

Points to the tender notice, value where stated and deadline context when the query catches procurement records.

Alert triggers

What counts as a match.

FilterHow PlanningBrief uses it
CountyMatches the county on the public planning, commencement, tender or appeal record.
Project typeUses the same classification shown on lead pages, such as one-off house, large residential, energy or commercial fit-out.
AudienceUses the reader tags already shown across PlanningBrief: trades, suppliers, professional services or investment.
No new matchNo email is sent. The first run records a baseline so old matches do not create a flood.

How it works

PlanningBrief stores your email address, alert cadence and chosen query filters. It stores the saved search, not a copy of every matching record.

Alert emails use double opt-in and include an alert-specific unsubscribe link. No email is sent when a saved search has no new matching records.