Submission on Development Management Guidelines Draft Consultation for Planning Authorities
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
The Irish Planning Institute welcomes the Draft Development Management Guidelines, which will help clarify development management policy and procedures for Planning Authorities so as to ensure consistent, transparent and qualitative decisions within the planning process.
The Irish Planning Institute acknowledge the term ‘development management’ and accept validity of the term since the change in planning and recognise the ‘unique challenge’ for the planning system.
The Irish Planning Institute welcome the promotion of best practice in the Guidelines thus ensuring that Planning Authorities become more efficient and improve the quality of service to all stakeholders in the Planning process.
The Institute would strongly suggest that relevant case law should be referred to, by way of footnotes, within the Guidelines as was previously used in the Yellow Book so as to clarify certain aspects of the Planning and Development Act 2000 where ambiguities have arisen.