Councillors criticise major planning reforms that will 'unnecessarily restrict' their powers

NEW LEGISLATION TO reform the planning system will “unnecessarily restrict” the importance of county and city councillors in the creation of development plans, TDs are due to hear.

“While there are some good features in this Bill – not least in its objective to consolidate a patchwork of planning laws that has evolved over recent years – there are also some overarching issues which in the view of many of our members will work to unnecessarily restrict the Councillors’ primacy in the Development Plan process,” Cllr Pat Fitzpatrick, President of the AILG, will tell TDs.

Reforms proposed under the bill include how judicial reviews are brought, with the bill changing how residents associations can take cases against planning decisions, as well as introducing an extension to the time local development plans are in effect. This means that areas zoned for residential use may be more specifically labelled to be for low-density or high-density residential development.

He will add that giving the Office of the Planning Regulator further oversight “further limits the discretion councillors have in shaping their locality based on their realistic local knowledge of its needs and capacities”.

This is a good thing; -Councillors don't have planning/building experience. -They often make decisions based on ideology. - They often play parish politics. Planning should happen at the macro scale.

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