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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: 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.

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

Malcolm Noonan: I am thinking of Ferrybank, for instance, that is not a town but part of a larger urban settlement.

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: In terms of guidance-----

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

Malcolm Noonan: If you go to section 24(1)(a)-----

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes. It states that: In deciding to issue and in formulating or amending a National Planning Statement under section 23, the Minister shall have regard to the desirability of setting out policy and providing guidance in relation to planning matters to support proper planning and sustainable development, including, but not limited to, the following: (a) preparation of regional spatial...

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

Malcolm Noonan: Yes.