Annual Report 2011 - Roscommon County Council

Development Incentives and Control
This programme group covers the functions of the Planning Section under the Planning and
Development Acts 1963 – 2011. Activities carried out under this Programme are divided
into three main areas:
1. Development Management (including Planning General Office and Conservation Office) constitutes
the Council’s regulatory role in relation to its planning function. It focuses on the planning application
process, licences for temporary works, declarations on exempt development, protected structures and
certificates under Part V.
2. Planning Enforcement focuses on compliance with conditions of Planning Permissions and taking of
enforcement action against persons engaged in unauthorised development, safety of Unfinished Estates
and assessment of Quarry Developments.
3. Forward Planning concentrates on the policy role of the Council’s planning function. It includes the
making and adoption of the County Development Plan, Local Area Plans for towns and discretionary
development plans for smaller towns and villages and Special Objective Plans for areas that are likely to
be subject to large scale development.
Protected Structure Roscommon Abbey
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