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Feb 23 2021

Planning Regulator Appears at Oireachtas Climate Action Committee

The Planning Regulator, Niall Cussen appeared at today’s meeting of the Oireachtas Climate Action Committee. The meeting was considering how Ireland can reduce its carbon emissions by 51% by 2030. As part of its examination of how this target can be achieved, the Committee is undertaking a sector-by-sector analysis with today’s meeting focusing on the […]

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Feb 17 2021

Expansion of the OPR’s Online Planning Library Service

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR), has further developed its online planning library facility with the recent publication of a new technical glossary. The new glossary, along with the previously published acronym list are useful technical aids when reading through material on the OPR’s online planning library. The glossary serves as an accompaniment to

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Feb 5 2021

A New Training Event for Local Authority Elected Members provides A Guide to Planning Enforcement in Ireland

Local Authority Planning Enforcement is the subject for the next planning training webinar for elected members of local authorities organised by the OPR in conjunction with the Association of Irish Local Government. The webinar will take place on Friday, 26 February between 10-11:30am. The event will feature a presentation from John Downey, Enforcement Manager, Dublin City

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Feb 1 2021

Eco Eye episode shines a spotlight on initiatives to revitalise Ireland’s towns and villages

The latest episode of Ireland’s longest running environmental TV series Eco Eye, focuses on the challenges facing Ireland’s towns and villages as they respond to falling populations and the closures of essential services such as banks, post offices and Garda stations and examines the initiatives being adopted to rejuvenate these communities. The title of the

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Jan 22 2021

Minister Burke launches new planning leaflet series

New series will help answer your planning questions A new series of online planning information leaflets which contain practical, accessible information on how the planning system works and explain how best to engage with it, was launched today by Peter Burke TD, Minister of State with responsibility for Local Government and Planning. The leaflets explain

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Jan 8 2021

New Eco-Eye series examines rural settlement

Ireland’s longest running environmental series, Eco Eye, kicked-off its new series this week looking at innovative ideas rural communities are putting in to practice in tackling Ireland’s housing issues in rural areas. Broadcast on RTE 1 on 5 January and presented by Duncan Stewart, the programme was produced in collaboration with the Office of the

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Jan 7 2021

The OPR Kick-Starts 2021 with a New Training Event for Local Authority Elected Members

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) in conjunction with the Association of Local Government in Ireland (AILG) is holding its first planning training webinar of 2021 for elected members of local authorities on Friday, 22nd January from 10 am-11:30 am. The title of the webinar is “The Decision on the Planning Application and Appeal.”

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Nov 27 2020

OPR launches its second training module for local authority elected members

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) in conjunction with the Association of Irish Local Government (AILG) launched its second planning training module for elected members of local authorities today, Friday, 27 November. The first module dealt specifically with the plan-making process. The second module is “A Guide for Councillors on the Development Management Process”.

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Nov 12 2020

BLOG: How can the places we live and work become more resilient post-Covid?

Niall Cussen, Planning Regulator Covid has changed much about our lives. It has changed how we work, how we socialise, even, at times, where we can go. Suburbs (where people live) bustle, but city centres and high streets (where people work and shop) bumble. Fewer cars and cleaner air mean roads and streets are safer

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Nov 11 2020

OPR to hold further online planning training webinar for local authority elected members

The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) in conjunction with the Association of Irish Local Government (AILG) will continue its series of online planning training webinars for local authority elected members on Friday, 27th November from 10am-11:30 am. November’s webinar is entitled “Implementation of the Development Plan and the Development Management Process.” There will be

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