S.I. No. 154/1981:

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1981.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1981.

The Minister for the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4 and 10 of the Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 hereby makes the following Regulations:--

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Local Government (Planning and Development) (Amendment) Regulations, 1981.

2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of May, 1981.

3. The Local Government (Planning and Development) Regulations, 1977 ( S.I. No. 65 of 1977 ) is hereby amended as follows:--

( a ) by the substitution in Class I in column I of Part I of the Third Schedule to the said Regulations of "23 square metres" for "18 square metres",

( b ) (i) by the insertion after Class 6 in column I of Part I of the said Third Schedule of the following class--

"Class 6A

The erection or construction, outside any external door of a dwelling house and not less than 2 metres from any public road, of a porch, having a floor area not exceeding 2 square metres", and

(ii) by the insertion in column 2 of the said Part opposite the mention of the said class 6A of the following condition--

"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, 4 metres or in any other case, 3 metres," and

( c ) by the addition to article 11 of the following sub-article--

(3) Sub-paragraph (v) of paragraph (a) of sub-article (1) shall not apply where the development consists of the construction of a porch as described in class 6A in column I of Part I of the Third Schedule and which complies with the condition mentioned opposite such class in column 2 of the said Part of the said Schedule.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment

this 30th day of April, 1981.

RAPHAEL P. BURKE,

Minister for the Environment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations amend the Local Government (Planning and Development) Regulations, 1977 so as to increase from 18 square metres to 23 square metres, the maximum floor area of an extension to the rear of a dwelling house, which can normally be provided without planning permission. The Regulations also provide that certain porches outside an external door of a dwellinghouse will not normally require planning permission.