Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015
Number 33 of 2015
URBAN REGENERATION AND HOUSING ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 29 March 2020
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
All Acts up to and including the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 (2/2020), enacted 27 March 2020, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 (Part 3) (Commencement) Order 2020 (S.I. No. 100 of 2020), made 29 March 2020, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.
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Number 33 of 2015
URBAN REGENERATION AND HOUSING ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 29 March 2020
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement
Vacant Site Levy
7. Procedure for entry on register
9. Appeal against entry on register
10. Obligation to owners to notify
11. Notice to owners of sites on register
12. Market value of vacant site
13. Appeal of market value determination
14. Determination of zero market value
17. Death or change of ownership
18. Appeal against demand for payment of levy
19. Vacant site levy to be charge on land
20. False or misleading evidence
21. Receipts, certificates and requirements on sale of vacant site
22. Forged and altered documents
23. Proceeds of vacant site levy
Amendment of section 23 of Derelict Sites Act 1990
27. Derelict sites levy not payable where vacant site levy payable
Amendment of Parts II and III of Act of 2000
Development Plans and Development Contributions
28. Amendment of section 10(2) of Act of 2000 - content of development plans
29. Amendment of section 48 of Act of 2000 - development contributions
30. Amendment of section 49 of Act of 2000 - supplementary development contribution schemes
Amendment of Part V of Act of 2000
Housing Supply
31. Amendment of section 94 of Act of 2000 - housing strategies
32. Amendment of section 95(1) (a) of Act of 2000 - housing strategies and development plans
33. Amendment of section 96 of Act of 2000 - provision of social and affordable housing, etc.
34. Amendment of section 96 of Act of 2000 - rental accommodation availability agreements
36. Amendment of section 97 of Act of 2000 - development to which section 96 shall not apply
Amendment of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009
37. Amendment of section 31 of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009
Acts Referred to
Companies Act 2014 (No. 38)
Derelict Sites Act 1990 (No. 14)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (No. 18)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (No. 22)
Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21)
Housing Acts 1966 to 2014
Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 (No. 27)
Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2002 (No. 32)
Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2010 (No. 30)
Planning and Development Act 2000 (No. 30)
Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2014
Registration of Title Act 1964 (No. 16)
Valuation Act 2001 (No. 13)
Number 33 of 2015
URBAN REGENERATION AND HOUSING ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 29 March 2020
An Act to make provision with respect to land in areas in which housing is required and in areas which are in need of renewal to prevent it lying idle or remaining vacant, to establish a register of vacant sites in those areas, to provide for a vacant sites levy, to amend the Derelict Sites Act 1990, to amend Parts II, III and V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, to amend the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and to provide for related matters.
[28 th July, 2015]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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Application of collectively cited Planning and Development Acts restricted (3.07.2017 for specified period to 31.12.2019 or up to 31.12.2021 if extended) by Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (17/2016), s. 4(1), S.I. No. 270 of 2017.
Strategic housing developments and planning applications
4. (1) Subject to subsection (4), during the specified period and notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any other provision of the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2016—
(a) an application for permission for a strategic housing development shall—
(i) be made to the Board under this section and not to a planning authority, other than an application for permission, the purpose of which is as set out in section 34(3A) of the Act of 2000,
(ii) be so made only where section 6 (7)(b) applies or, in the case that a request is made under section 7 (1), when the Board has complied with the request pursuant to section 7 (2),
(iii) be so made only where the applicant for permission has fulfilled the requirements set out in section 8,
(iv) be in such form and contain such information as is prescribed, and
(v) be accompanied by the appropriate fee, and
(b) a copy of the application, shall be sent by the applicant to the planning authority or authorities in whose area or areas the proposed strategic housing development would be situated.
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