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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...number of commencements. We are all aware that speculation goes on and we can probably all point to examples. The Minister stated that two years is too short, but I say that five years is too long and ten years - as five years allows for an extension to ten years-----

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...duration of a planning permission from five years to three years. I have listened closely to the Minister's responses on amendment No. 779 and Deputy Boyd Barrett's points. Five years is too long. If the Minister is saying that two years is too short a time, then three years seems a reasonable period. The purpose would be to incentivise the commencement of active planning permissions...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...in a minute about what the commencement looks like, and one can only seek that once. Let us say we have a housing development. So from what I understand is being framed here, why would one want a longer duration? If one takes Intel, MetroLink, large strategic infrastructure or large residential developments that would be at scale, there will be appropriate times. These amendments do...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...then I would precisely insist on that. Insofar as the Minister has said he is going to do that so there would be no extension beyond ten years, that is welcome but to my mind, ten years is too long unless there is an extremely good reason. The Minister can legislate for that as well if there are some exceptional circumstances. Covid-19 was referenced by the Minister. All sorts of...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...stand over that, however, because while I think all of us focus on housing, as that is where the biggest need is, namely, the need to see the delivery of homes, the reality is that having an overly long duration facility for planning also has a knock-on effect where that relates to non-residential sites. What we are seeing, therefore, is vacancy leading to dereliction. There are vacant...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...that an extension of permission for a further ten years can be granted as well, which allows for a full 20 years overall. Whatever type of planning application we are talking about, 20 years is a long period of time. Incidentally, for a project like MetroLink, I refer to a project like that having perhaps more than ten years, including, potentially, another extension. I totally...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: Yes, grand. To follow on from the point made by Deputy Bacik, has any analysis been done in terms of durations of permissions in respect of a large-scale housing development, for example, of how long it normally takes to build out after getting planning permission? If we are talking about 500 units or 1,000 units, how much time is required in this regard, if we consider the time needed to...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of their trying to deliver the project. Regarding time delays relating to the JR, I can understand wanting to have the clock stopped on planning permissions. My only concerns around this are long-duration planning permissions and the impact there could be of stopping the clock and then adding in the time. Let us say there is a project where there has been an environmental assessment,...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...is irrelevant or different. I would see this in a very small number of cases. I understand the point the Deputy made, namely that if something is held up for four or five years, a survey may no longer be valid. I am not making any changes to this insertion, but I will reflect on it. We do not know how long something will be in the courts. If something goes to the courts, we would...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I ask the Deputy to think about it this way. If one applies, one might get a ten-year permission. The environmental assessments, etc., that are done are generally for a long period of time, such as the ten-year period in that instance, so we are not looking to add on to the end. We are stopping the clock. It might be a difference between ten years and 11 years. If one is granted...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I spent a long time discussing this yesterday. The extension of duration of permission provisions in the Act of 2000 refer to "substantial works" having being carried out before the extension is sought. This language previously caused some uncertainty, particularly in the courts, and by referring to works being commenced brings certainty to it. As I said to Deputy Ó Snodaigh, what we...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: I am happy to take it if the Deputy wants me to, as long as it is a reasonable question.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: They could get six months if the planning authority saw fit, but they must get it. They must get the extension but it is up to the planning authority to decide how long.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Apr 2024)

Malcolm Noonan: I understand the contractual commitments entered into by the person are under the maritime area consent and it is so long as the material alteration request is not at odds with this. The MAC is separate from the material alteration request.