Planning Application Form
Planning Application Form
Please ensure that the Planning Application Form is completed in full.
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Planning Application Fee
Planning Application Fee
The scale of fees payable is prescribed in law. If the correct fee does not accompany your application, your application will be declared invalid and returned to you together with any fee paid. State the amount of fee being paid and the class(es) of fee applicable on the application form.
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Scale of Planning Fees
Approved Newspaper Notice
Approved Newspaper Notice
Within the period of two weeks before you make the planning application, you are obliged to give notice of your intention to make the application in a newspaper approved by South Tipperary County Council. The following is the approved list of newspapers for planning notices in respect of locations within the functional area of South Tipperary County Council:
“Irish Independent”
“Irish Times”
“Irish Examiner”
“The Nationalist”
“The Tipperary Star”
“South Tipp Today”
“Irish Daily Star” &
"The Premier People"
Your newspaper notice must contain the following:
As a heading “South Tipperary County Council”.
The name of the applicant.
The location, townland or postal address of the land or structure to which the application relates (as may be appropriate).
Whether the application is for permission for development, permission for retention of development, outline permission for development or permission consequent on the grant of outline permission (stating the reference number on the register of the relevant outline permission).
A brief description of the nature and extent of the development, including:
- where the application relates to development consisting of or comprising the provision of houses, the number of houses to be provided;
- where the application relates to the retention of a structure, the nature of the proposed use of the structure and, where appropriate, the period for which it is proposed to retain the structure;
- where the application relates to development which would consist of or comprise the carrying out of works to a protected structure or proposed protected structure an indication of that fact;
- where the application relates to development which comprises or is for the purposes of an activity requiring an integrated pollution prevention and control licence or a waste licence, an indication of that fact, or
- where a planning application relates to development in a strategic development zone, an indication of that fact; and
- where the application is accompanied by an Environmental Impact Statement, a statement to that effect and that the Environmental Impact Statement will be available for inspection or purchase at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy during office hours at the offices of the Planning Authority; and
- That the application may be inspected or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy at the offices of the planning authority during its public opening hours and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee (€20) within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the authority of the application.
The full page of the newspaper showing the notice of the application is required to be submitted with your application. The nine days from 24 December to 1 January are excluded from the 2 weeks time period.
Site Notice
Site Notice
Within the period of 2 weeks before you make the application, you are required to erect a site notice.
Your site notice is required to be inscribed or printed in indelible ink on a white background of A4 in size and be affixed on a rigid durable material which has been weather proofed.
The site notice must state the particulars of the nature and extent of the proposed development in the standard site notice form prepared by South Tipperary County Council. The content of your site notice is required to be in line with the content of your newspaper notice.
The site notice must contain the date on which it was erected.
The site notice is required to be erected or fixed in a conspicuous position on or near the main entrance to the site/structure so as to be easily visible and legible by persons using the public road and shall not be obscured or concealed at any time. Where it appears to the Planning Authority that a site notice will not be visible or easily legible by members of the public by reason of being positioned on an open gate, the Planning Authority will consider same does not satisfy the requirements of Article 19(2) of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001, as amended, and accordingly any such application will be deemed invalid.
The site notice is required to be maintained on the site for a minimum period of 5 weeks from the date of receipt of a valid application.
It should not be concealed at any time. Where there is more than one entrance from the public road, further site notices are required on or near all such entrances.
A copy of the site notice is required to be submitted with your application.
Where the land or structure to which a planning application relates does not adjoin a public road, a site notice shall be erected or fixed in a conspicuous position on the land or structure so as to be easily visible and legible by persons outside the land or structure, and shall not be obscured or concealed at any time.
Where a valid planning application is made in respect of any land or structure and a subsequent application is made within 6 months from the date of the making of the first application, the site notice is required to be on a yellow background.
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Site Notice of Further Information/Revised Plans
Site Location Map
Site Location Map
Six copies of location map(s) of sufficient size, to scales of 1:1000 in built up areas and 1:2500 in all other areas, are required.
The land/structure and the boundaries of the site of the proposed development are required to be clearly identified in red. Land which abuts, adjoins or is adjacent to the land/structure the subject of the application and which is under the control of the applicant or the owner of the land/structure to be outlined in blue and way-leaves shown in yellow.
A separate plan showing the position of the site notice or notices is also required
Site Layout Plan
Site Layout Plan
Six copies of the site layout plan drawn to a metric scale of not less than 1:500 are required. Each site layout plan to contain all of the following:
- scale of the site layout plan;
- site boundary to be clearly delineated in red
- all buildings, roads, boundaries, septic tanks and percolation areas, bored wells, significant tree stands and other features on, adjoining or in the vicinity of the land/structure shall be shown
- levels or contours of the land and the proposed structure relative to Ordnance Survey datum or temporary local benchmark
- name and address by whom prepared
- north point
- and distance of any structure from the boundaries of the site.
Plans/Drawings
Plans/Drawings
Six copies of drawings of elevations (front, rear and both sides), plans and sections, to a metric scale of not less than 1:200 (1:50 is preferred), which are to contain the following:
- the main features of any buildings which would be contiguous to the proposed structure if it were erected, whether on the application site or in the vicinity, at a scale of not less than 1:100, as may be appropriate
- the scale indicated
- the principal dimensions (including overall height) of any proposed structure
- and the name and address by whom prepared.
Please note that for large scale developments a metric scale of 1:200 may be acceptable. Where the application relates to works, comprising reconstruction, alteration or extension of a structure, the drawings shall be so marked or coloured so as to distinguish between the existing structures and the works proposed.
Please note that additional copies of any plan, drawing, map, photograph or other particulars, may be required for applications in respect of development to protected structures and large scale developments.
Schedule of Documents/Maps/Plans/etc.
Schedule of Documents/Maps/Plans/etc.
A full schedule of all the site layout plans, floor plans, elevations, sections, any photographs and any reports is required to be submitted.
Trial Hole & Percolation Test Results
Trial Hole & Percolation Test Results
These are an essential part of all planning applications where a public sewer connection is not available. A site suitability report is required where an on site effluent disposal system is proposed.
For development which requires the installation or retention of a septic tank drainage system, evidence of the suitability of the site to accept septic tank effluent, in accordance with the Code of Practice Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Systems serving Single Houses (p.e. £10) published by the EPA in 2009 replaces previous guidance issued in 2000 and provides guidance on installation of on-site wastewater treatment systems. (report form to be completed).
The complete document is available at the following web address: http://www.epa.ie/downloads/advice/water/wastewater/name,27046,en.html
The Site Suitability Report Form is available at the following web address: http://www.epa.ie/downloads/advice/water/wastewater/sitecharacterisationform.pdf
For development with a population equivalent of 10-500 which requires the installation or retention of a biological effluent treatment system, evidence of the suitability of the site to accept biological treatment system effluent, in accordance with the document “Wastewater Treatment Manuals: Treatment Systems for Small Communities, Business, Leisure Centres and Hotels” as published by the Environmental Protection Agency in December 1999 must be submitted (report form to be completed).
Site suitability Assessments must be carried out by a person/s listed as approved by the Planning Authority on its Current list of approved Assessors.
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These results MUST be certified by a competent person (i.e. a professionally qualified and competent individual acceptable to the Planning Authority: details of acceptable competent individuals are available from the Planning Authority). The Planning Authority reserves the right to carry out its own independent test on the site.
(N.B) Please note that trial holes, percolation test holes, etc. should not be excavated adjacent to or in the vicinity of any site listed in the Record of Monuments and Places as established under Section 12 of the National Monuments (Amendment) Act, 1994 and issued by the National Monuments and Historic Properties Division of Dúchas The Heritage Service of the then Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands in 1997 unless with the prior written consent of the National Monuments Section of the Heritage and Planning Division of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government.
Land Holding Map
Land Holding Map
Where an application relates to residential development in a rural area (i.e. outside a town) a map of the lands of the applicant or of the owner of the land, as appropriate, must be submitted and shall conform with the following:
- the boundaries shall be clearly indicated by means of a thin black line outlined in blue (the area, in hectares, of same shall also be stated);
- the map shall be extracted from the most recently published Ordnance Survey sheet(s) to a scale of 1:2500;
- the boundaries of any individual site disposed of for residential purposes from the landholding shall be indicated , together with the details of family relationship, if any, between the landowner and the person to whom any such site was disposed of;
- the boundaries of the site forming the application shall be outlined in red;
- the location of the landowner’s dwelling; and
- the boundaries of any further individual site proposed to be disposed of from the landholding in the future.
The boundaries of sites (3)-(6) should be clearly indicated.
