Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 7 February 2024
258. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the types of funding allocated to local authorities in Cavan and Monaghan for the taking in charge of housing estates where the developer is no longer managing lighting and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5152/24]
View answer263. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department has made any funding allocations to Clare County Council in order that a Section 180 application (Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended) made by the residents of an area (details supplied) to have their housing estate taken into public charge by the local authority, can be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5233/24]
View answerI propose to take Questions Nos. 258 and 263 together.
The taking in charge of housing estates by local authorities is provided for under section 180 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended (the Act), and the procedures for this are initiated under section 11 of the Roads Act, 1993. The taking in charge of residential estates is also a reserved function of the elected members. It is generally a standard condition of granting permission for housing development that the developer must lodge a security bond to ensure the satisfactory completion of the development to enable it to be taken in charge by the local authority.
Therefore, ultimately, progression of individual developments through the taking-in-charge process is a matter for the relevant housing developer, the residents in such developments, the relevant local authorities and elected members to consider on a case-by-case basis.
Under Section 30 of the Act, I, in my role as Minister with responsibility for planning, am precluded from exercising any power or control in relation to any particular case with which a planning authority or the Board is or may be concerned.
