Annual Report 2011.pdf (size 6 MB) - Offaly County Council

Strategic Policy Committee Meetings
Portarlington Local Area Plan
Variation no. 1 of the County Development Plan
provides for the removal of the Portarlington Town
Plan from Volume 2 of the County Development Plan.
In January 2011 meetings were initiated with Laois
Planning Authority relating to the undertaking of a
joint Portarlington Local Area Plan. Laois County
Council are the Lead Authority on this project. The
issues paper for Portarlington was issued in
September 2011 and an LAP workshop was held for
members of the public to participate. The LAP is a
work in progress.
During 2011, four meetings of the committee were held and
the Committee considered the following matters:
Review of Edenderry Local Area Plan
Joint Local Area Plan – Portarlington
Review of Clara Town Plan
Co. Development Plan – Core Strategy -Regional Planning
Guidelines, Housing Strategy
County Managers 2 year progress report on securing
objectives of the County Development Plan 2009-2015
and the Birr Town & Environs Development Plan 2010 -
2016
Engage with Architecture Project
Conservation Grants – Structures at Risk Fund 2011
Unfinished Estates Reports
Derelict Sites
Updates on Planning & Development Legislation
New Policy on Wastewater Treatment and Disposal for
Single Dwellings
Work Programme 2011
Development Management
The following table sets out the trend in the number of
planning applications received and decided by the Council
over the past number of years:
Yr.
No of
Applications
No.
Granted
No.
Refused
Total
Decided
2009 557* 418 69 487
2010 449* 332 54 386
2011 347* 293 27 320
(*This figure includes applications which were invalid)
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