Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2022-06-28
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Frances Black (IND), Industrial and Commercial Panel

This seeks to add the condition that, where a person applies for substitute consent for the land subject to the application, the development cannot have a commercial value of more than €5.48 million. This is to stop scenarios where large development projects are rammed through the planning process and are not subject to strict criteria.
Amendment No. 7 is similar, in that it seeks to add a condition that, where a person applies for substitute consent in respect of land adjoining a development, it will not be granted where the commercial value of the proposed development is more than €5.48 million. This is to ensure that large-scale developments are subject to a planning process rather than the substitute consent process, which is designed to be the exception, not the rule.
Amendment No. 11 is an alternative to amendments Nos. 5 and 7 and is a blanket provision to prevent developments with commercial values of more than €5.48 million from being subject to the provisions of this section.

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Sitting date: 2022-06-28