Finian McGrath
Ceist:
594
Deputy Finian McGrath
asked the
Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government
the reason persons have to pay a charge on a small extension to a house (details supplied).
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Amharc ar fhreagra
Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Deputy Jan O’Sullivan): Section 48 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides that a planning authority may, when granting a planning permission, include conditions for requiring the payment of a contribution in respect of public infrastructure and facilities benefiting development in the area of the planning authority and provided, or intended to be provided, by or on behalf of a local authority. The Act provides that the basis for the determination of development contributions should be set out in a development contribution scheme which is made by the elected members following a public consultation process.
Details of individual development contribution schemes are available directly from each planning authority. It is open to an applicant for planning permission to appeal a planning decision to An Bord Pleanála if the applicant considers that the terms of a development contribution scheme or supplementary development contribution scheme have not been properly applied in respect of any planning condition laid down by the planning authority.