Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael)
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1562. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ask local authorities to provide full details of planning permission decision appeals to An Bord Pleanála including observations deadlines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15808/18]

Eoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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In the case where a planning authority is notified by An Bord Pleanála that a decision made by the authority on a planning application has been appealed to the Board, articles 68 to 70 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, require the authority to—

make a copy of the appeal available for inspection or purchase during office hours at the authority’s offices until the appeal is withdrawn or dismissed or is determined by the Board;

give written notice of the appeal to any person who made a submission or observation on the planning application to which the appeal relates, stating that submissions or observations in relation to the appeal may be made in writing to the Board within the appropriate period specified in section 130 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, as amended, and on payment of the appropriate fee; and include in its weekly list of planning applications an indication of any planning application in respect of which it has been notified during the week concerned that an appeal has been made to the Board.

It is also common practice for planning authorities, when making documents relating to a planning application available for public inspection in electronic form, to indicate those applications in respect of which an appeal has been made to the Board.

Pending the enactment and implementation of the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016, which proposes to introduce a mandatory requirement on planning authorities to make documents relating to planning applications available for public inspection in electronic form, I have no proposals to expand the existing requirements on planning authorities in relation to the notification of appeals made to the Board.