Planning and Development Act 2024
Amendment of permission or decision by Commission | ||
516. (1) The Commission may authorise a Planning Commissioner to amend a permission granted by the Commission, or other decision of the Commission under this Act or any other enactment, for the purposes of— | ||
(a) correcting a clerical error in the permission or decision, | ||
(b) facilitating the doing of a thing pursuant to the permission or decision, where the doing of that thing may reasonably be regarded as having been contemplated by a particular term of the permission or decision, or its terms as a whole, but was not expressly provided for in the permission or decision, | ||
(c) clarifying the terms of the permission or decision, or | ||
(d) facilitating the implementation or operation of the permission or decision, | ||
and the Planning Commissioner shall make that amendment in accordance with the terms of the authorisation. | ||
(2) The Commission shall not exercise the power under subsection (1) if the amendment is a material alteration of the terms of a development the subject of the permission or decision. | ||
(3) Before the Commission decides whether to make an authorisation under subsection (1) in a particular case, the Commission may invite submissions in relation to the matter to be made to it by any person who made submissions to the Commission in relation to the permission or decision, and shall have regard to any submissions made to it on foot of that invitation. | ||
(4) In this section “permission” includes a permission granted by An Bord Pleanála under the Act of 2000 or under section 9 of the Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 but does not include outline permission within the meaning of section 96 . |