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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...to apply for a revocation or an amendment to a TPO. Amendment No. 939 relates to the protection of trees. It is a new subsection relating to public bodies managing and protecting trees on their lands. It sets out steps that this should stop trees becoming hazardous by proper management and provides that where trees are removed, they must provide the Minister with evidence of why they...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I appreciate that the Minister of State will look into this further. When the TPO process is going through, there is a consultation with the land owner and the land owner can make the submissions. That happens when the TPO is being made. I am talking about a process that will apply when the TPO has been made and has been in existence for some number of years. I am seeking to ensure there...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is section 374(2), is it not? The amendment proposed to add a new subsection. The sale or lease of land to a community-led housing body would not need the permission of the Minister in this case because the local authority could dispose of it. Is that covered?

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: I think the section is about the disposal of land below market value. Is that not what section 374 covers? If a local authority were to do that, there are certain conditions where the Minister must give consent to do that. For community land, does that have to be done for an approved housing body?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Land Issues (16 Apr 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...absolute gentlemen, who loved nothing more than walking through many of the walkways and hills of Wicklow. They became involved in a situation where an alleged right of way had been blocked by the landowner. This evolved into a very complex and long court case situation. The case has been decided and has been publicly documented. The two gentlemen will not mind me mentioning their...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...what answer I got during pre-legislative scrutiny or if I was satisfied with it, so I submitted this amendment. A condition can be attached to a grant of planning permission and there can be conditions attached to land that "adjoins, abuts or is adjacent to the land ... to be developed" and, as subparagraph (ii) says, that "is under the control of the applicant". If the land were leased...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: .... This could cause difficulties, primarily in regard to renewable energy projects. I have in mind somebody who is proposing, designing or trying to develop a renewable energy project, either on land or at sea, taking into account that a sea development will have a terrestrial element to it as well in terms of bringing cables ashore. Will having to be eligible to apply for planning...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...really need to accelerate the development of renewable energy across all types of sources, including wind, solar, anaerobic digestion, etc. Part of those developments requires the consent of the landowner on which the project is located and there may also be a cabling aspect. Applicants may not know what the exact route of their cabling will be and, therefore, may not be in a position to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: Not necessarily sports and recreation, because I accept the point that some of that can be private and may not be public, and one always zones land for community and educational use. I am wondering where within any of these strategies is a requirement on the provision of educational services. We seem to cater for many services and community facilities, but I do not see education. It may be...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine, and I totally accept the point that you cannot put a site notice on somebody else's land and that it is up to the applicant to do that. Some sort of public notice is what I meant. It is just in order that the public are aware that something is happening with the structure or that it is being added or deleted. I think that would be beneficial.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...for residential, mixed use, employment zones, etc., but when we come to the next development plan it is still there on the map and nothing has happened. I appreciate that we are introducing various land activation measures so that we do not have zoned lands sitting there for so long. Incentives are being introduced to make people develop those lands, or disincentives to not do it. It...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (19 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: That is fine. We can deal with that when we deal with the land value sharing and urban development zones Bill.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...page 250. It refers to section 122: "Decision on application for permission for development in material contravention of certain plans". Amendment No. 710 relates to material contraventions for land development, while amendment No. 712 relates to material contraventions for marine planning. I suspect that the Minister of State will probably respond by saying that there is scope for the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...is because section 49(2) reads “A development management statement may include objectives for any of the following”. Every one of us knows the difficulties there are on rights of way issues in Ireland. It is a very complex and difficult part of law, involving landownership, land rights and access over many years. We have loads of old coach roads, nun’s paths and all...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: -----because that would be completely unsustainable. Although the land is zoned, there has to be some guard against that.