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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

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MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, December 14, 2015

QUESTION NO.2

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive to provide statistical details of planning enforcement activity in each of each of 2013, 2014 & 2015 to date?

REPLY:

The table below provides statistical details of planning enforcement activity for 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 & up to 31st October 2015.

  Local Service Indicators Dec-11 Dec-12 Dec-13 Dec-14  Oct-15
             
Department            
             
Planning Planning Enforcement          
  Total number of cases subject to complaints that were investigated 333 263 237 168  147
  Total number of cases subject to complaints that were dismissed 183 116 66 86  32
  Total number of cases subject to complaints that were resolved through negotiations 142 104 90 86  40
  Number of enforcement procedures taken through warning letters 263 253 207 155  144
  Number of enforcement procedures taken through enforcement notices 116 128 77 67  27
  Number of prosecutions    19 14 18 7 6