Planning and Development Act 2024
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Local authority housing development | ||
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161. (1) The chief executive of a local authority shall, before the carrying out of a local authority housing development by, on behalf of or jointly with that local authority— | ||
(a) inform the members of the local authority of the intention to carry out that development, and | ||
(b) provide those members with such documents, particulars and plans as relate to that development. | ||
(2) The Minister may make regulations providing for any or all of the following matters in respect of local authority housing development: | ||
(a) the giving of public notice by the local authority of the intention to carry out the development; | ||
(b) the publication by a local authority of any specified notice in respect of the development; | ||
(c) the making available for inspection, including by members of the public, of such documents, particulars or plans as relate to the development; | ||
(d) notification of bodies prescribed for the purposes of this section of the intention to carry out the development; | ||
(e) the entry of particulars of the development in the register; | ||
(f) a requirement that local authorities provide the Minister with information of such a type as is specified in the regulations and at such intervals as is so specified. | ||
(3) Sections 138 , 139 and 140 of the Local Government Act 2001 shall not apply in respect of local authority housing development. | ||
(4) In this section— | ||
“housing development” means the construction or erection of one or more than one house and includes— | ||
(a) the construction of a new road, or the widening or realignment of an existing road, to any such house, | ||
(b) the construction or erection of pumping stations, treatment works, holding tanks or outfall facilities for waste water or storm water, to serve any such house, | ||
(c) the laying underground of sewers, mains, pipes or other apparatus to serve any such house, | ||
(d) the provision of open spaces, recreational and community facilities and amenities and landscaping works to serve any such house, and | ||
(e) the provision of car parks, car parking places, surface water sewers and flood relief work, and ancillary infrastructure, to serve any such house; | ||
“local authority housing development” means local authority development commenced on or before 31 December 2025 that— | ||
(a) is housing development, | ||
(b) does not materially contravene a development plan, urban area plan, priority area plan or joint area plan, | ||
(c) is in accordance with the strategy included in the development plan for the area in accordance with subsection (1) of section 242 , | ||
(d) is situated on land— | ||
(i) owned by a local authority or a public authority, | ||
(ii) zoned for residential use, and | ||
(iii) that allows for access, or connection, to public infrastructure and facilities; | ||
“public authority’ means— | ||
(a) a Minister of the Government, | ||
(b) an Education and Training Board established under the Education and Training Boards Act 2013 , | ||
(c) the Courts Service, | ||
(d) the Digital Hub Development Agency, | ||
(e) the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, | ||
(f) Enterprise Ireland, | ||
(g) the Environmental Protection Agency, | ||
(h) An Garda Síochána, | ||
(i) the Health Service Executive, | ||
(j) the Housing and Sustainable Communities Agency, | ||
(k) the Industrial Development Agency (Ireland), | ||
(l) an institute of technology that is a college within the meaning of the Regional Technical Colleges Act 1992 , | ||
(m) the Institute of Public Administration, | ||
(n) the part of the Department of Justice charged with the management of prisons, | ||
(o) the Legal Aid Board, | ||
(p) the Marine Institute, | ||
(q) the National Archives, | ||
(r) Oberstown Children Detention Campus, | ||
(s) the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, | ||
(t) Ordnance Survey Ireland, | ||
(u) Sport Ireland, | ||
(v) the State Laboratory, | ||
(w) Teagasc, | ||
(x) a technological university within the meaning of the Technological Universities Act 2018 , or | ||
(y) An tSeirbhís Oideachais Leanúnaigh agus Scileanna; | ||
“public infrastructure and facilities” includes, in relation to local authority housing development— | ||
(a) roads, | ||
(b) footpaths, | ||
(c) public lighting, | ||
(d) foul sewer drainage, | ||
(e) surface water drainage, and | ||
(f) water supply, | ||
provided in connection with, or that otherwise serve, the development. |