Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Amendment No. 4 seeks to add a condition to the provision in the Bill that a person who applies for substitute consent in respect of a development of land can also apply for permission for substitute consent for adjoining land. The condition our amendment would add is that the development on adjoining land must be for a purpose related to the original development. This is to ensure that people can only apply for substitute consent on adjoining land where substitute consent has also been sought for similar development on the primary piece of land. We do not want to see situations where completely unrelated developments are being pushed through the substitute consent process.

Amendment No. 8 is similar to amendment No. 4 in that it seeks to add the condition that developments on adjoining land given permission under substitute consent must be related to the original development. It deletes the wording in section 5 that it is not required to be the same as the primary development and changes it to a requirement that the development is related. I look forward to the Minister of State's response.