The extension of a dwellinghouse by any addition to the rear thereof where the height of the extension does not exceed that of the dwellinghouse and the original floor area is not increased by more than 120 square feet or, in the case of a two-storey extension, 90 square feet on each floor.

The erection, construction or placing within the curtilage of a dwelling-house of any tent, awning, shade or other object, greenhouse, garage, shed or other similar structure.

1. The height above ground level of any such structure shall not exceed, in the case of a building with a tiled or slated ridged roof, 12 feet, or any other case, 10 feet.

2. The structure shall not be used for human habitation or for the keeping of pigs or poultry or for any other purpose other than a purpose incidental to the enjoyment of the dwellinghouse as such.

The erection of a wireless or television aerial on the roof of a dwellinghouse.

The height of the aerial above the roof shall not exceed 20 feet.

The erection, construction or alteration within or bounding the curtilage of a dwellinghouse of a gate, railing, wooden fence or of a wall constructed of brick, stone, split blocks or other blocks with decorative finish but not of other concrete blocks or of mass concrete.

1. The height above ground level of any such structure shall not exceed 6 feet or, in the case of a wall or fence within or bounding any garden or other space in front of a dwellinghouse, 4 feet.

2. Every wall shall be capped.

The construction of any path, drain or pond or the carrying out of any landscaping works within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse.

The level of the ground shall not be altered by more than 3 feet above or below the level on the appointed day.

The erection, construction, renewal or replacement of any gate or gateway not exceeding seven feet in height above ground level.

The plastering of any wall of concrete blocks or mass concrete and the construction, lowering, repair or replacement of--

(i) any fence (not being a hoarding or sheet metal fence), or

1. The height of any such structure shall not exceed 4 feet above ground level or the height of the structure being repaired or replaced, whichever is the greater and in any event shall not exceed 6 feet above ground level.

(ii) any wall (not being an unplastered wall of concrete blocks or mass concrete bounding a public road),

2. Every such wall bounding a public road (other than a dry-stone wall) shall be capped.

(iii) a wall constructed of split blocks or other blocks of decorative finish.

Any alteration consisting of the replastering or painting of any external part of any building or other structure other than the painting of any previously unpainted part of any building or other structure to which subparagraph (ix) or (x) of paragraph (a) of sub-article (5) of article 3 applies.

The repair or improvement of any private street, road or way, being works carried out on land within the boundary of the street, road or way, and the construction of any private footpath or paving not exceeding ten feet in width.

(a) from use as a general or special industrial building to use as a light industrial building,

(b) from use as a special industrial building to use as a general industrial building,

(c) from use as a fried fish shop, a shop for the sale of pet animals or birds, or a shop for the sale or display for sale of motor vehicles, to use as any other type of shop,

(d) from use as a public house to use as a shop for any purpose other than the exceptions specified in Class 1 of Part IV of the Schedule.

Occasional use for social or recreational purposes of any school, hall, club, art gallery, museum, library, reading room, gynasium or any structure normally used for public worship or religious instruction.

The erection, construction or placing on land on, in, or under which or on land adjoining which development consisting of works (other than mining) is being or is about to be carried out in pursuance of a permission granted under Part IV of the Act or as exempted development, of structures, works, plant or machinery needed temporarily in connection with that development during the period in which it is being carried out.

Such structures, works, plant or machinery shall be removed at the expiration of the period and the land shall be forthwith reinstated save to such extent as may be authorised or required by a permission under the Act.

The placing or maintenance on a public road of any movable appliance licensed under section 89 of the Act.

The use of premises as offices in connection with presidential, Dáil or local elections or referenda.

The use shall be discontinued after a period not exceeding 30 days.

The keeping or storing of not more than one caravan or boat within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse.

1. The caravan or boat shall not be used for the storage, display, advertisement or sale of goods or for the purposes of any business.

2. No caravan shall be kept or stored for more than nine months in any year or occupied as a dwelling while so kept or stored.

Development of the following descriptions, carried out by an industrial undertaker on land occupied and used by such undertaker for the carrying on and for the purposes of any industrial process, or on land used as a dock, harbour or quay for the purposes of any industrial undertaking, provided that such development does not materially alter the external appearance of the premises of the undertaking--

(i) the provision, rearrangement, replacement, or maintenance of private ways or private railways, sidings or conveyors,

(ii) the provision, rearrangement or maintenance of sewers, mains, pipes, cables or other apparatus,

(iii) the installation or erection by way of addition or replacement of plant or machinery, or structures of the nature of plant or machinery, not exceeding 50 feet in height or the height of the plant, machinery or structure so replaced, whichever is the greater.

Storage within the curtilage of an industrial building of raw materials, products, packing materials or fuel, or the deposit of waste, so as not to be visible from any public road contiguous or adjacent to the curtilage.

The carrying out by any railway undertaking of development required in connection with the movement of traffic by rail in, on, over or under the operational land of the undertaking except--

(i) the construction or erection of any railway station or bridge, or of any residential structure, office, or structure to be used for manufacturing or repairing work, which is not situate wholly within the interior of a railway station, and

(ii) the reconstruction or alteration of any of the aforementioned structures so as materially to affect the design or external appearance thereof.

The carrying out by any harbour authority of development being--

(i) works authorised by a harbour works order in pursuance of section 134 of the Harbours Act, 1946 , which consist of the construction, reconstruction, extension or removal of docks, graving docks, quays, wharves, jetties, piers, embankments, breakwaters, roads, viaducts, tramways, railways, aerodromes, (but not the construction and erection of sheds, transit sheds, transhipment sheds, silos, stores and other structures or the reconstruction or alteration of such excepted structures so as materially to affect the design or external appearance thereof), or

(ii) the cleaning, scouring, deepening, improving or dredging of their harbour or the approaches thereto or the removal of any obstruction within the limits of their harbour, and the use of land for the disposal

of dredged material in accordance with an objective in the development plan for the area in which the land is situated.

The carrying out by any gas or electricity undertaking of development consisting of the laying underground of mains, pipes, cables, or other apparatus for the purposes of the undertaking.

The carrying out by any electricity undertaking of development for the purposes of the undertaking consisting of the erection or construction of an overhead transmission line not more than 100 feet from a position in respect of which permission for such line was granted and which otherwise complies with such permission, but not a line in respect of which a condition attached to the relevant permission imposed a contrary requirement.

Development consisting of the laying out and use of land--

(a) as a park, private open space or ornamental garden,

(b) as a roadside shrine,

(c) as a golf course or pitch-and-putt course, incorporating parking space for not less than 24 cars,

(d) for athletics or sports where no charge is made for admission of the public to the land.

The construction of a swimming pool (other than a covered swimming pool) in accordance with plans approved by a sanitary authority for the purposes of making a contribution under section 55 of the Local Government Act, 1955 .

Development consisting of the use of land for the placing or maintenance of tents, vans or other temporary or movable structures or objects in connection with any fair or any local event of a religious, cultural, political, recreational or sporting character.

1. The land shall not be used for any such purposes either continuously for a period exceeding 15 days or occasionally for periods exceeding in aggregate 30 days in any year.

2. On the discontinuance of such use the land shall be forthwith reinstated save to such extent as may be authorised by a permission granted under Part IV of the Act.

The erection, placing or keeping on land of any lighthouse, beacon, buoy or other aid to navigation on water or in the air.

The use of land as a burial ground and works incidental to the use or maintenance of any burial ground, churchyard, monument, fairgreen, market, schoolyard or showground except--

(a) the erection or construction of any wall, fence or gate bounding or abutting on a public road,

(b) the erection or construction of any building other than a stall or store which is wholly enclosed within a market building or,

(c) the reconstruction or alteration of any building other than a stall or store which is wholly enclosed within a market building.

(a) the clearance of a derelict site in accordance with any offer accepted or requirement made by any local authority in pursuance of section 2 of the Derelict Sites Act, 1961 ,

(b) the clearance of a derelict site in accordance with a plan or proposal approved by the Minister for the purpose of making a grant towards the cost of such works,

(c) the carrying out of any works on land which are in accordance with and necessary for compliance with the terms of any licence granted under section 34 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services) Act, 1948 , but not including the erection of any building, hut or chalet or the construction of any road or hard-standing,

(d) the removal of any structure or object or the carrying out of any works required by a planning authority under the provisions of any enactment.

The excavation for the purposes of research or discovery of sites, features and other objects of archaeological, geological or historical interest the preservation of which is not an objective of any development plan.

The sinking of a well, drilling of a borehole, erection of a pump or construction of a pumphouse, for the purpose of providing a domestic water supply.

Any drilling or excavation for the purpose of surveying land or examining the depth and nature of the subsoil.

The connection of any premises to a sewer, watermain, gas main or electricity supply line or cable, including the breaking open of any street or other land for that purpose.

Advertisements for the purposes of announcement or direction or warning exhibited by a statutory undertaker in relation to the operation of their statutory undertaking.

Advertisements for the purposes of identification, direction or warning with respect to the land or structures on which they are exhibited.

No such advertisement shall exceed 3 square feet in area.

Advertisements, exhibited at the entrance to any premises, relating to any person, partnership or company separately carrying on a public service or a profession, business or trade at the premises.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 3 square feet in area.

2. Not more than one such advertisement in respect of each such person partnership or company shall be exhibited on the premises or, in the case of premises with entrances on different road frontages, one such advertisement at one entrance on each road frontage.

Advertisements relating to any institution of a religious, educational, cultural, recreational or medical or similar character, any hotel, inn or public house, block of flats, club, boarding house or hostel, situated on the land on which any such advertisement is exhibited.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 6 square feet in area.

2. Not more than one such advertisement shall be exhibited in respect of each such premises or, in the case of premises with entrances on different road frontages, one such advertisement on each such frontage.

Advertisements exhibited on or affixed to any external face of any hotel building wholly with reference to all or any of the following matters: the business or other activity carried on and the services provided in the hotel.

1. No such advertisement shall project more than 3 feet from the face of the building to which it is affixed.

2. Where any such advertisement projects more than 2 inches over any public road, the advertisement shall be not less than 7 feet over the level of such road.

Advertisements relating to the sale or letting of any structure or other land (not being an advertisement structure) on which they are exhibited.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 6 square feet in area.

2. No such advertisement shall be exhibited for more than seven days after the sale or letting to which the advertisement relates.

3. No advertisement structure on which such advertisement is exhibited shall remain on the structure or other land for more than seven days after the sale or letting to which the advertisement relates.

Advertisements relating to the sale on or before a date specified therein of goods or livestock, and exhibited on land where such goods or livestock are situated or where such sale is held, not being land which is normally used, whether at regular intervals or otherwise, for the purpose of holding sales of goods or livestock.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 6 square feet in area.

2. No such advertisement shall be exhibited for more than seven days after the date specified.

Advertisements relating to the carrying out of building or similar works on the land on which they are

1. Where only one advertisement is exhibited, such advertisement shall not exceed 36 square feet in area or

exhibited, not being land which is normally used, whether at regular intervals or otherwise, for the purpose of carrying out such works.

exceed a height of 20 feet above ground level.

2. Where more than one advertisement is exhibited, no such advertisement shall exceed 6 square feet in area or a height of 12 feet above ground level and the total area of such advertisements shall not exceed 18 square feet.

Advertisements other than advertisements specified in class 17 of this Part of this Schedule announcing any local event of a religious, educational, cultural, political, social or recreational character, and advertisements relating to any temporary matter in connection with any local event of such a character, not in either case being an event promoted or carried on for commercial purposes.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 12 square feet in area.

2. No such advertisement shall be exhibited more than 8 feet above ground level or be glued or pasted to any structure other than an advertisement structure.

3. No such advertisement shall be exhibited for more than seven days after the conclusion of the event or matter to which it relates.

Advertisements relating to any demonstration of agricultural methods or processes on the land on which the advertisements are exhibited.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 6 square feet in area.

2. No such advertisement shall be exhibited for more than seven days after the date of the demonstration to which it relates.

Advertisements (other than advertisements specified in class 12 of this Part of this Schedule) which are exhibited within a structure and to which there is access from inside the structure.

Internally illuminated advertisements exhibited as part of any shop or other window display on business premises and advertisements affixed to the glass surface of a window of a business premises or exhibited through a window of such premises and not less than 6 inches from such window.

The total area of any advertisements exhibited shall not exceed one-quarter of the area of the window through which the advertisements are exhibited.

Advertisements (other than those specified in classes 3, 4, 11 and 12 of this Part of this Schedule) exhibited on business premises, wholly with reference to all or any of the following matters: the business or other activity carried on and the goods or services provided on those premises.

1. No part of any such advertisement shall be more than 8 feet in height above ground level or, where such advertisement is exhibited on or attached or affixed to any building, 12 feet in height above ground level.

2. No such advertisement shall contain or consist of any symbol, emblem, model or device exceeding 2 feet in height or any letter exceeding 1 foot in height.

3. Where such advertisement projects more than 2 inches over any public road, the advertisement shall not be less than 7 feet over the level of such road nor project more than 3 feet over such road.

4. The total area of such advertisements which are not exhibited on or attached or affixed to any building shall not exceed 30 square feet of which not more than 15 square feet shall consist of advertisements which are internally illuminated.

5. The total area of such advertisements exhibited on or attached or affixed to the front of any building shall not exceed an area equal to 1 square foot for every foot length of such front less the total area of any such advertisements exhibited on the premises but not exhibited on or attached or affixed to the building.

6. The total area of such advertisements exhibited on or attached or affixed to any face of a building other than the front thereof shall not exceed 12 square feet and the total area of any such advertisements on such face which are internally illuminated shall not exceed 3 square feet.

7. Where any such advertisement consists of a circular sign and projects more than 2 inches over any public road, the diameter of

such sign shall not exceed 3 feet and no other such advertisement shall be exhibited on a sign projecting more than 2 inches over the public road.

8. Where any one or more such advertisements are exhibited on a swinging or fixed sign or other advertisement structure (other than a circular sign) projecting more than 2 inches from any external face of any structure, the total area of such advertisements shall not exceed 12 square feet and the area of any face of such advertisement structure shall not exceed 4 square feet.

9. No such advertisement shall cover any part of any window in any building on which the advertisement is exhibited or to which it is attached or affixed.

An advertisement in the form of a flag which is attached to a single flag-staff fixed in an upright position on the roof of a business premises, and which bears no inscription or emblem other than the name or device of a person occupying the building.

Any advertisement relating to a presidential, Dáil or local election or referendum.

No such advertisement shall be exhibited for more than seven days after the date of the election or referendum to which it relates.

Advertisements required to be exhibited by or under any enactment, including (but without prejudice to the generality hereof) advertisements the exhibition of which is so required as a condition of the valid exercise of any power, or proper performance of any function, given or imposed by such enactment, or for compliance with any procedure prescribed by or under any enactment.

Advertisements consisting of placards, posters or bills relating to the visit of any travelling circus, funfair, carnival, show, cinema, musicians, players or other travelling entertainment.

1. No such advertisement shall exceed 12 square feet in area.

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2. No such advertisement shall be exhibited more than 8 feet above ground level or be glued or pasted to any structure other than an advertisement structure.

3. No such advertisement shall be exhibited more than seven days after the visit or performance to which it relates.

Any advertisement exhibited on land wholly or for the most part enclosed within a hedge, fence, wall or similar screen or structure (not being land which is a public park, public garden or other land held for the use and enjoyment of the public, or a part of a railway undertaking's enclosed land normally used for the carriage of passengers by rail) and not readily visible from land outside the enclosure wherein it is exhibited.

Any advertisement exhibited within a railway station.

Temporary use of any land for the placing of any tent or caravan or for the mooring of any boat, barge or other vessel used for the purpose of camping.

1. Not more than one tent or caravan shall be placed within 100 yards of another tent or caravan at any time.

2. No tent, caravan, or vessel shall remain on the land for a greater period than 10 days.

3. No tent, caravan or vessel shall be used for the storage, display, advertisement or sale of goods or for the purposes of any business.

4. No tent or caravan shall be placed on land within 50 yards of any public road unless the land is enclosed by a wall, bank or hedge, or any combination thereof, having an average height of not less than 5 feet.

Temporary use of land by a scouting organisation for a summer camp.

The land shall not be used for such purposes for any period or periods exceeding 30 days in any year.

Works relating to the construction or maintenance of any gully, drain, pond, trough, pit or culvert, the widening or deepening of watercourses, the removal of obstructions from watercourses and the making or repairing of embankments.

The erection of any stand or ramp for loading or unloading vehicles (excluding the erection of a ramp on a public road and any stand which projects over any paved or metalled part of a public road).

1. The height of the stand or ramp shall not exceed 4 feet above ground level.

2. A stand within 150 feet of a road junction shall not be situated over or adjoining a public road.

The erection of any wall or fence other than a fence of sheet metal or a wall or fence within or bounding any garden or other space in front of a dwellinghouse.

The height of the wall or fence shall not exceed 6 feet above ground level.

The construction, excavation, extension, alteration or replacement of any store, barn, byre, shed, glasshouse, pen, sty, poultryhouse, silo or other structure on land not less than 30 feet from any public road the metalled part of which is more than 12 feet in width or from the site of any road improvement work or new road and carrying out or construction of which is an objective of any development plan or, during the period prior to the making of a development plan, is declared by resolution of a planning authority to be an objective which they propose to include in a development plan.

1. No such structure shall be used for any purpose other than the purpose of agriculture or forestry.

2. No such structure for the housing of pigs or poultry or for the making of silage shall be situated within 100 feet of any dwellinghouse save with the consent of the owner and occupier thereof.

3. No such structure within 100 yards of any public road shall exceed 21 feet in height above ground level.

The use of land for the purpose of the winning and working of minerals, the carrying out of works incidental thereto (other than opencast mining or surface working or the deposit of refuse or waste materials) and, in the case of land other than land situate in an area to which a special amenity area order relates, the erection or placing of structures on the land for such specific purpose.

1. No such structure shall remain on the land for a period exceeding twelve months.

2. On the discontinuance of the use of the land, or any part thereof, all structures and materials shall be removed therefrom and the surface of the land shall be forthwith reinstated or, where reinstatement is not practicable, such excavation shall be effectively fenced or otherwise protected and, in the case of land in an area to which a special amenity area order relates, a hedge, bushes or trees shall be planted so as to screen the excavation.