The third meeting of the National Planning Knowledge Group (NPKG) was held on 22nd July 2020. The meeting focussed largely on two items; the OPR’s Planning Research Framework and the OPR’s Strategic Planning Research Programme. Planning Research Framework The Research Framework is intended to be the roadmap for advancing the OPR’s research goal. This goal […]

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) has today, July 30th published its first Annual Report. An interactive animation of the key elements of the Annual Report is also available. The report outlines some key activities of the OPR during its first year and identifies some significant trends and indicators which reflect Ireland’s planning performance

An Bord Pleanála has published its Annual Report and Accounts 2019. It has also published statistical data for 2019 in an appendices booklet which accompanies the main Annual Report document. The report contains a wide-range of highly relevant information and statistics which will be both of use and practical application to all those with an interest

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) in conjunction with the Association of Irish Local Government (AILG) held an online planning training webinar for elected members of local authorities today, Friday, 24 July. The webinar covered a wide range of issues relevant to local authority elected members as they prepare to review county/city development plans.

A total of 518,400 viewers have so far watched the Eco Eye episode on sustainable spatial planning. The episode which was first aired on 28 January 2020 was co-sponsored by the Office of the Planning Regulator and Healthy Ireland. The programme had the highest ratings across series 18 of Eco Eye. The broadcast which was

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) in conjunction with the Association of Irish Local Government (AILG) is holding an online training webinar for local authority members on Friday, 24 July from 10am-11:30 am. The webinar entitled “Planning and the Local Elected Member” will cover two topics: An overview of planning in Ireland and the

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR), has developed and launched a new on-line resource which brings together a broad range of planning related research material, training materials and the OPR’s planning library in one central location. The OPR’s Research and Training page https://www.opr.ie/research-and-training/ hosts all of the training material from the OPR’s previous training

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) is seeking to establish a panel of fee-per-case (FPC) assessors and reviewers to assist it in its role and functions as set out under the Planning and Development Act, as amended. For more information, including details on how to submit a tender, please refer to the notice published

On Friday, 22 May, the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Eoghan Murphy TD, signed new Planning and Development Regulations (Planning and Development (Section 38) Regulations 2020 – S.I. No. 180 of 2020). These Regulations provide that all planning authorities are obliged to publish planning application documentation on their websites within five workings days

The OPR has today, 22nd published a pilot methodology for conducting reviews of local authorities’ systems and procedures in relation to the performance of planning functions. Read Pilot Methodlogy As set out in our Strategy Statement , the OPR is implementing a programme of reviews, whereby each local authority will be subject to a general