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My derelictsites.com website has just gone live.🏚️⚡️🎉
I've created a data-led project focused on vacancy and dereliction in Ireland as part of the wider housing and town-centre crisis.
This regeneration project examines the scale and impact of derelict and long-term vacant properties. The public-facing landing page at derelictsites.com reviews derelict sites currently on the register across five local authorities—Cork County Council, Cork City Council, Dublin City Council, Limerick City & County Council, and Mayo County Council. I've built a digital database to increase transparency and visually identify dereliction hotspots across each county. This map-based public register tracks locations, enforcement steps, and estimated values. It includes photos of derelict sites and Google Street View links to make the records easier to understand. I've also included useful links and available grants explaining the Derelict Sites Process Workflow.
This is a public-facing landing page for draft demonstrations built by me. It provides an overview and links to each register and supporting information. This is a demonstration platform and portfolio project that shows how statutory register data can be structured for public transparency and internal decision support.
This website is a regeneration-focused initiative documenting and analysing derelict and long-term vacant property in Ireland. Built as a structured, evidence-led platform, it converts fragmented statutory registers into a clear, map-based resource revealing the scale, geography, and real-world impacts of vacancy, underuse, and town centre decline.
The project does more than highlight dereliction as a problem. By combining clean, structured data, mapping, and accessible communication, it helps local authorities, practitioners, and the public understand where dereliction is concentrated, what stage cases are at, and what opportunities exist for regeneration.
Through developing this platform, I am building practical expertise in vacancy classification, data cleaning and standardisation (including address and Eircode quality), mapping and visualisation, and stakeholder-focused reporting. My goal is to contribute to a local authority or housing regeneration teams working on Town Centre First delivery, vacant homes activation, and sustainable reuse strategies—bringing a strong digital and data-led approach to real-world implementation.
🔮 Future plans:
Expand coverage: Add more local authority registers while maintaining a consistent structure and terminology. Include vacant sites in the register database.
Improve data quality: Standardise addresses, add Eircodes where missing, and document a repeatable QA workflow.
Richer enforcement timelines: Track key statutory stages and dates more consistently, so progress and delays are visible.
Better analytics: Add district and town breakdowns, CPO numbers, trend views such as dereliction clusters, and "time on register" metrics to highlight long-standing cases.
Case studies: Include short, evidence-based examples of successful reuse (before/after, costs, barriers, outcomes).
Decision-support outputs: Create exportable reports and summaries that support internal briefings and member queries.
For collaboration, feedback, or demonstration requests, please get in touch.
Regards
Rob Cross
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