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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 08, 2024

QUESTION NO.35

QUESTION: Councillor J. Spear

To ask the Chief Executive to explain the reasoning behind the delay in implementing a motion that was passed which requires a site notice to be erected for each planning application?

REPLY:

All planning applications require the applicant to erect a site notice no more than 14 days prior to the lodgement of a planning application.

The notice must remain in situ (and in good order) for a minimum period of five weeks from the date of receipt of the planning application.

Failure by the planning applicant to erect and maintain a site notice for a statutory period of time will invalidate the planning application.

With reference to a motion passed by the Council regarding site notices for Section 254 license applications, the following has been implemented:

The Council website has been updated to ask applicants to provide a site notice when a Section 254 license application has been submitted and a site notice form is available on the Council website. However, it should be noted that Council has no statutory powers to invalidate this type of application where no site notice has been provided and cannot use this a reason for refusal. The Council can encourage applicants to provide a site notice, which we do, but we have not powers to require them to do so.