Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Justin Moran:

The Government brought in a limited form of design flexibility in the property and development valuation Act last year. Unfortunately, we still have not seen the guidance note to An Bord Pleanála to explain to the board how to apply the design flexibility that was supposed to come out of that. To go back to Ms Conaghan’s point, our members right now are putting together planning applications without any knowledge of how An Bord Pleanála will treat that issue of design flexibility. The amendment we are putting forward gives An Bord Pleanála, or the commission, as it would be, the power to decide the level of detail it wants. It is not the developer who gets to decide. The commission gets to decide the envelope and parameters to be operated in.

I will pass it to my colleague Ms Conaghan for the question on repowering.

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