Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Mr. Ian Lumley:
It specifically refers to the environmental impact assessment process but that applies generally. All too often a planning application will just look at the site itself, such as a ring fort or a standing stone in a rural area. Particularly in some of western seaboard county landscapes, there are monuments that relate to each other in the wider landscape. There might be some standing stones but their significance is in how their geographical position relates to another site across the valley. That is not being given proper consideration in the planning process.
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