Our Policy Advice & Submissions

The following is a list of recent examples where the Heritage Council has used its policy advice function to assist government in its policy formulation in a wide range of areas.

2025

Cork City Docklands (Variation 2 Cork City Development Plan Submission

Part 8 Housing Development, Lanesborough, Submission

Change of Use, Clones Submission

Residential Development, Abbeyfeale Submission

Grattan Street, Portlaoise, Co. Laois

48 O Connell Street, Clonmel application submission

Kellystown, Louth windfarm application submission

Doire an Chláir Nature Restoration application submission

Holiday Units, Caherdaniel, Kerry application submission

Draft Gort LAP submission

2024

Draft Portarlington LAP Submission

Kells Co Meath- ACA Development

Draft Monaghan County Development Plan 2025-2031 Submission

Longford Town LAP Submission

Draft Carrick on Shannon Joint Local Area Plan 2025-2031

Dundalk Draft LAP Submission

St. Gobnaits Cemetery Expansion Submission

Bank of Ireland Re use Dungloe Submisssion

Draft Maynooth and Environs Joint LAP 2025-2031

Proposed Amendments to the Draft Sligo County Development Plan 2024-2030

Draft Portlaoise Local Area Plan 2024 - 2030

PPC Eastmoreland Lane (Royal City of Dublin Hospital) Application Submission

Draft South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy (SC-DMAP)

Carrick on Suir LAP Issues Paper Submission

Material Alterations to the Donegal County Development Plan Submission

Monasterevin Local Area Plan

Kildallan, Westmeath Solar Farm Application

Boscabell, Tipperary Solar Farm Application

Brehony Bog, Tipperary Solar Farm Application

Tullow Local Area Plan

Tullamore Residential Led Mixed Use Development Application Submission

Arklow Town and Environs LAP Submission

Drogheda Joint LAP Submission

Westport House and Estate Planning Application Submission

Statement to ABP Oral Hearing on the Metrolink Railway Order Application

Muine Bheag-Royal Oak Local Area Plan 2024-2030 Issues Paper

Ballina Local Area Plan Submission

Roscommon Town Local Area Plan Submission

2023

Ballina Flood Relief Scheme

2022

Dublin Street_Monaghan_HC Submission to An Bord Pleanála

Heritage Council Policy Submission: The Relationship of Built Heritage and Local Area Plans (LAPs) in Ireland

A submission on built heritage planning policy to the department’s Planning Advisory Forum

Submission to the Minister on Local Area Plans

Ashbourne House, Glounthane Cork to ABP

Heuston South Quarter Phase 2 SHD Planning Application

Submission to ABP on a garden redevelopment in Cork adjacent to a protected structure


2021

Section 28 Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)-Guidelines for Regional Assemblies and Local Authorities

Submission on the draft Section 28 Development Plans – Guidelines for Local Authorities- October 2021

Submission on the emerging Sligo County Development Plan 2023-2029

An SHD apartment scheme at Kilmainham, Dublin

Proposed windfarm at Kilranelagh, Co Wicklow

Proposed Celtic Interconnector Project – EirGrid and RTE (France)

Submission on the emerging Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Development Plan 2022-2028

Submission on the emerging Dublin City Development Plan 2022-2028

Phoenix Park – Transport & Mobility Options Study

Submission on the Tipperary County Development Plan 2022-2028 key issues paper

Proposed St Kevin's SHD, Cork City

2020

Heritage Council submission on proposed development in Greenore, Co Louth to Louth County Council

Heritage Council submission on proposed development in Athenry, Co Galway to Galway County Council

Heritage Council submission on proposed development near Vinegar Hill, Co Wexford to Wexford County Council

Heritage Council submission on Westmeath County Development Plan to Westmeath County Council

Heritage Council Submission ‘Places for People’: Ireland’s National Policy on Architecture from 2020’

Submission on the Tipperary County Development Plan 2021-2028

Conducting Reviews Of Planning Performance – Stakeholder Consultation

2019

Submission to Louth County Council on the Louth County Development Plan by by The Heritage Council and Project Partners of the Dundalk Collaborative Town Centre Health Check Project- Dundalk BID, Dundalk Chamber, Dundalk Credit Union, Louth County Council and Dundalk IT

2017

Submission to the National Planning Framework PDF 2MB

Submission to the National Planning Framework PDF 2MB
Appendix: Seascapes and Seascapes Assessment- A Review of International Policy PDF 1MB