Written answers

Tuesday, 24 October 2006

Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government

Planning Issues

9:00 pm

Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 696: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the reason an association (details supplied) is not a prescribed body with similar rights to An Taisce; when same will happen for this association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34402/06]

Photo of Dick RocheDick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Section 33 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 provides that regulations regarding applications for planning permission may be made requiring, inter alia, that planning authorities must notify prescribed bodies of the receipt of applications for certain classes of development. Article 28 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 lists the bodies prescribed for this purpose, and these include An Taisce in circumstances where it appears to the planning authority that the proposed development might impact on matters such as areas of special amenity, protected structures, national monuments or nature conservation.

The list of bodies prescribed for the purposes of planning applications was last reviewed in the making of the 2001 Regulations. Planning regulations, including the list of prescribed bodies, are kept under continual review to ensure that they deliver an effective and efficient planning service leading to quality planning decisions.

I would also add that in the context of new Planning and Development Regulations to be finalised shortly I intend to add the Irish Rural Dwellers Association (IRDA) to one of the panels of nominating bodies for the appointment of members to An Bord Pleanála.

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