'Not enough time' to consider new planning bill, councillors claim

Councillors from all parts of the country have expressed concern that the bill 'reinforces a centralised planning structure with the County Development Plan locked into rigid national and regional planning frameworks', Dáil committee to hear. File picture: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

The Government is not giving enough time for consideration of its new planning bill, a representative body for the country's councillors will tell an Oireachtas committee.

President of the Association of Irish Local Government Cllr Pat Fitzpatrick — which represents 949 councillors across all parties and none in the 31 planning authorities throughout the State — will tell the Housing Committee the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Planning and Development Bill 2022 has not been extensive enough.