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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, June 20, 2016

QUESTION NO.10

QUESTION: Councillor W. Lavelle

To ask the Chief Executive, to provide an update on the number of planning enforcement files currently open; and on progress in reducing the number of planning enforcements files which were reported as open at the time of the December 2015 Council meeting, broken down among those received in the second half of 2015; first half of 2015; 2014; 2013 and pre-2013; and to make a statement on the efforts to further reduce the backlog?

REPLY:

The number of live planning enforcement files is 375 at 10th June 2016.

Between 1st January 2016 and 10th June 2016 forty one (41) new files were opened on foot of complaints received and sixty six (66) files were closed.

The files closed relate to the following years:

Pre-2013          21

2013                 7

2014                15

2015                19

2016                 4

The examination of all live files is continuing so that any action considerded necessary may be taken to bring the matters complained of to a conclusion.