Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed)

Photo of Joe FlahertyJoe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have one final housekeeping question regarding a bone of contention that is, again, a rural Ireland issue. It is that of the owner of a house who is given planning permission where one of the conditions of planning is the house has to be built, developed and retained in that ownership. At present, if someone has secured that planning permission, he or she can write to the planning office to ask for that condition to be removed. That document is not made public at present. My neighbours have no way of seeing whether I applied for the removal of that condition and there is no record, or no way of publicly tracking, if that has happened. Is that something this review will capture?

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