Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations S.I. No. 605/2022

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 2nd December, 2022.

WHEREAS I, PETER BURKE, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, am of the opinion that development to which the following regulations apply would not offend against principles of proper planning and sustainable development by reason of the nature and limited effect of development belonging to that class on its surroundings; and

WHEREAS a draft of the following regulations has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving that draft has been passed by each such House;

NOW I, PETER BURKE, Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by subsection (2) of section 4 and section 262 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30 of 2000) (as adapted by the Housing, Planning and Local Government (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2020 ( S.I. No. 408 of 2020 )) and by the Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order 2020 ( S.I. No. 559 of 2020 ), hereby make the following regulations:

Citation and construction

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022.

(2) These Regulations shall be included in the collective citation Planning and Development Regulations 2001 to 2022.

Amendment of Part 1 of Schedule 2 to Planning and Development Regulations 2001

2. Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 ( S.I. No. 600 of 2001 ) is amended by inserting the following class after Class 20E:

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CLASS 20F

Temporary use by or on behalf of the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to accommodate or support persons seeking international protection of any structure or part of a structure used as a school, college, university, training centre, social centre, community centre, non-residential club, art gallery, museum, library, reading room, sports club or stadium, gymnasium, hotel, convention centre, conference centre, shop, office, Defence Forces barracks, light industrial building, airport operational building, wholesale warehouse or repository, local authority administrative office, play centre, medical and other health and social care accommodation, event and exhibition space or any structure or part of structure normally used for public worship or religious instruction.

1. The temporary use shall only be for the purposes of accommodating persons seeking international protection.

2. The use shall be discontinued not later than 31 December 2024.

3. The relevant local authority shall be notified of locations where change of use is taking place prior the commencement of that change.

4. ‘international protection’, for the purpose of this class, has the meaning given to it in section 2 (1) of the International Protection Act 2015 (No. 66 of 2015).

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

29 November, 2022.

PETER BURKE,

Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Irish Statutory Instruments

S.I. No. 605/2022 - Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022

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