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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF RATHFARNHAM / TEMPLEOGUE / FIRHOUSE / BOHERNABREENA AREA COMMITTEE

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

QUESTION NO. 9

QUESTION: Councillor M. Lynch

To ask the manager to advise what the ongoing issue is in reference to planning application SD21B/0188 whereby the incorrect fees were invoiced for over a year and a half and, according to the resident's solicitor and architect, the revised fees are still incorrect.

REPLY:

Planning fees are payable at the time of lodging a planning application. 

Development Contributions are payable on a sq meter of development basis, at either commercial or residential rate, depending on the nature of the development.

SD21B/0188 refers to a planning application to SDCC for an extension to a residential property.

SDCC refused permission for the development and that decision was appealed to An Bord Pleanala  (ABP).  ABP granted permission for the proposed development as amended by additional information submitted to ABP, thereby reducing the sq meterage of the proposed development. 

The grant of permission by ABP included a condition to pay development contributions to SDCC, and at the time of invoicing, SDCC was not in receipt of a schedule detailing changes to the floor area, resulting in an invoice being issued for a higher sqm of development.

A revised floor area assessment has since been concluded and a financial adjustment has been made to the account to reflect the permitted floor area (less residential extension exemption as per the Development Contribution Scheme).