It is open to a planning authority or An Bord Pleanála to refuse planning permission for landfill facilities on environmental pollution grounds. When permission is granted, matters on environmental pollution fall to be dealt with in the context of the determination by the Environmental Protection Agency of the related application for a waste licence. The agency is precluded from granting such a licence unless it is satisfied that a facility will not cause environmental pollution.
My Department issues planning guidelines on a range of issues. They are as follows:
Issues on which Planning Guidelines Have Been Issued
Development Control Advice and Guidelines (currently under review)
Tree Preservation
Telecommunications Antennae and Support Structures
Wind Farms (currently under review)
Residential Density
Housing Supply (Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000), with additional guidance on implementation issues
Retail Planning Guidelines (retail warehousing cap element of guidelines currently under review)
Child Care Facilities
Architectural Heritage Protection, with additional guidelines relating to places of public worship
Environmental Impact Assessment of sub-threshold development
Control of Quarries
Issues on which Draft Planning Guidelines Have Been Issued
Landscape and Landscape Assessment
Development Plans
Sustainable Rural Housing.