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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The critical and overarching point is that the balance is given to not reopening the plan in its entirety. On Deputy Ó Broin's question on the interim report and section 54(4), that refers to the recommendations of the review for consideration by members. The Bill states that not later than five years after the making of a development plan, members of a planning authority shall...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I think it is usually a two-thirds majority.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: It is by a simple majority of the members.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: We can do that.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I agree. We will give consideration to it.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I move amendment No. 457: In page 120, to delete lines 21 to 23 and substitute the following: “the planning authority shall— (I) serve a notice on each person who is the owner or occupier of, and any person appearing to the authority to have an interest in, the proposed protected structure or the protected structure, as the case may be, of the proposed addition, deletion...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will address amendments Nos. 980, 987, 992, 994, 995 and 997 as jointly tabled by Deputies Cian O'Callaghan, Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Snodaigh, Boyd Barrett, Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny. These amendments seek to amend sections 281 to 283, inclusive, to provide that other relevant persons, as well as owners and occupiers, shall take all reasonable steps to ensure that a protected...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: The existing legislation should work. I think this is down to enforcement at a local level, which is critically important. Section 281 deals with the "duty of owners and occupiers to protect structures from endangerment". It states: Subject to subsections (2) and (3), each owner and occupier of a protected structure or proposed protected structure shall take all reasonable steps to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I will come back in on two points made by Deputy Ó Snodaigh. It is important to have these skills at local authority level. We have budgeted in 2024 to ensure that all local authorities have an architectural conservation officer, ACO. Currently, they do not all have one. There is the wider recognition of ACOs at local authority level. It is something we have worked on with the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Under this section it is the duty of the owners to protect structures from endangerment. Section 281 (4) provides that "Any person who, without lawful authority, endangers a protected structure or a proposed protected structure shall be guilty of an offence.". Section 281(5) states: In any proceedings for an offence under subsection (4), it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove, on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No. Regarding the integrity of a protected structure, consideration is given to whether the main fabric of such a structure is still in place, regardless of alterations to it that have taken place over time. We have seen it happen throughout the country that alterations have been made to protected structures that may be inappropriate or not in keeping with the integrity of the structure,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Urban area plans are for regional growth centres in key towns that have been designated at a regional level in the regional spatial economic strategy and where, in the opinion of the planning authority, the scale of the planned growth requires an integrated approach to land use and transportation planning for the entire urban area. This is not too dissimilar to local area plans. Priority...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: They were replaced by urban development zones, UDZs. Priority area plans are for areas where there is a large brownfield site in an urban area that requires a specific focus.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: These are for regional growth centres or key towns that were designated as regional growth centres in the RES.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: That is in the explanatory memorandum, which is on page 30.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I apologise.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: No. This is for when there are particular towns within the local authority and when the LAPs have a population of more than 5,000. Again, it depends on the overall objectives of the county plan, in which the local authority has identified an area that will require an urban area plan because of potential future growth and development. I revert to section 27, which reads, "A regional spatial...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: That is a good question. It could be an urban area.