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Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Tuesday, 5 Nov 2002

Vol. 556 No. 3

Written Answers. - Planning Regulations.

Tony Gregory

Ceist:

681 Mr. Gregory asked the Minister for the Environment and Local Government his views on the issues raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding the costs of planning notices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20149/02]

Article 17(1)(a) of the Planning and Development Regulations, 2001, provides that an applicant for planning permission shall within the period of two weeks before the making of a planning application give notice of the intention to make the application in a newspaper in accordance with Article 18 of the regulations.

Article 18 outlines the information which must be contained in the newspaper notice. Article 18(1)(e) indicates clearly that each notice must include a statement that:

the planning application may be inspected or purchased at the offices of the planning authority and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of five weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application.

The purpose of this requirement is to ensure that all persons who may be affected by a proposed development are made fully aware of their right to make a submission or observation on the planning application and of the restriction that such submission or observation must be made within five weeks. The need to highlight this latter restriction in each notice is important at this formative stage of the new regulations, which came into force on 11 March 2002, as only third parties who make such a submission may subsequently appeal the local authority decision to An Bord Pleanála. Following suitable experience of these new requirements by all parties concerned, it may be appropriate to consider possibilities for regulatory simplification.

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