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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, July 12, 2021
QUESTION NO. 26
QUESTION: Councillor F. Timmons
To ask the Chief Executive for a report into what a listed building means and how the Council plays a role in ensuring that listed building don't fall into disrepair?
REPLY:
Protected Structures (formerly known as Listed Buildings) are listed under the Record of Protected Structures - Schedule 2 of the South Dublin County Development Plan 2016-2022. A Protected Structure is a structure that a local authority considers to be of special interest from an architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social or technical point of view. Details of protected structures are entered by the authority in its Record of Protected Structures, which is part of the County Development Plan. Part IV of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended) provides legislation pertaining to Protected Structures.
Each owner and occupier of a Protected Structure is legally obliged to ensure that the structure is protected/conserved. The obligation to conserve a Protected Structure applies to all parts of the structure, including its interior, all land around it, and any other structures on that land. The obligation also applies to all fixtures and fittings forming part of the interior of a protected structure or of any structure on land around it.
Each owner and occupier must ensure that a Protected Structure or any element of a Protected Structure is not endangered through harm, decay or damage, whether over a short or long period, through neglect or through direct or indirect means. Where a Local Authorities considers that a Protected Structure is endangered, they may;
- require an owner or an occupier of a Protected Structure to carry out works if it considers that the structure is or may become endangered;
- require an owner or an occupier of a Protected Structure to carry out works if it considers that character of the structure ought to be restore.
As per Section 59, Part IV of the Planning and Development Act, 2000 (as amended).