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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, September 25, 2017

QUESTION NO.1

QUESTION: Councillor E. Fanning

To ask for clarity on the issuing of Planning Decisions being forwarded to Agents.  While a Decision may appear online (with no details), as has happened on a Friday - there was still no Registered letter received by Tuesday.  After contacting the Planning Department and requesting the decision by email, it was refused although in similar circumstances previously an email had been sent with the decision attached.

Can the correct procedure be clarified and can the time span between a decision appearing online and the issuing of a registered letter be shortened.

REPLY:

The procedure for issuing notifications of decisions is as follows:

The notification of decision is issued to the applicant/agent acting on behalf of the applicant by Registered Post on the day the decision order is signed or at the latest the following day. This satisfies the requirements of Article 31 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 (as amended) which states, inter alia, that “notification of a decision by a planning authority shall be given to the applicant within 3 working days of the decision.”

Once details of the decision are entered in the planning system the website is automatically updated with details of the decision.

It is the Council’s practice to allow a period of a few days from the date of decision before uploading the decision order and notification letter to the website in order that the applicant or agent gets first view of the decision details.