Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 432: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress being made to issue new guidelines to assist in allowing landowners with land along national secondary routes to obtain access for planning purposes on such roads. [28005/12]

Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour)
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I published, on 31 January 2012, Guidelines for Planning Authorities on Spatial Planning and National Roads aimed at ensuring that roads planning and policy, and development planning and management processes are appropriately and effectively aligned; and encouraging a collaborative approach and early engagement between planning authorities and the National Roads Authority (NRA) so that transport and land use planning considerations are taken into account at the early stages of both development plan and development management processes. This is to ensure that future development at locations on, or in the vicinity of, national roads is guided to the most suitable location and that work on Ireland's national roads network is planned for and managed in a complementary and integrated manner.

Section 2.6 of the Guidelines outline that, in exceptional circumstances with regard to the normal limitations on the provision of access for new developments to national routes, planning authorities may identify stretches of national roads where a less restrictive approach may be applied, but only as part of the process of reviewing or varying the relevant development plan and having consulted and had regard to the advice of the NRA in line with the approach set out in the Guidelines.