Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015
Definitions (Part 2)
3. In this Part—
F2[“Board” means An Coimisiún Pleanála;]
“housing” includes social and affordable housing;
F3[…]
“market value”, in relation to a site, shall, other than in section 21, be construed in accordance with section 12;
“owner” means—
(a) in relation to land that is registered land within the meaning of the Registration of Title Act 1964, the registered owner, and
(b) in relation to all other land, a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who, whether in his or her own right or as trustee or agent for any other person, is entitled to receive the rack rent of the land or, where the land is not let at a rack rent, would be so entitled if it were so let;
F3[…]
“register” has the meaning given to it by section 6;
“regeneration land” means land identified by a planning authority in its development plan or local area plan, after the coming into operation of section 28, in accordance with section 10(2)(h) of the Act of 2000 with the objective of development and renewal of areas in need of regeneration, and includes any structures on such land;
“residential land” means land included by a planning authority in its development plan or local area plan in accordance with section 10(2)(a) of the Act of 2000 with the objective of zoning for use solely or primarily for residential purposes, and includes any structures on such land;
“Tribunal” means Valuation Tribunal;
“vacant site” has the meaning given to it by section 5;
“vacant site levy” has the meaning given to it by section 15.
Annotations
Amendments:
F2
Inserted (18.06.2025) by Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), s. 631 and sch. 7 ref. no. 44, S.I. 256 of 2025, art. 3(3) and sch. part 3 item 2.
F3
Deleted (19.07.2018) by Planning and Development (Amendment) Act 2018 (16/2018), s. 65(a), commenced on enactment.
F4
Inserted by Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), s. 631 and sch. 7 ref. no. 44, not commenced as of date of revision.
F5
Substituted by Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), s. 631 and sch. 7 ref. no. 44, not commenced as of date of revision.
Modifications (not altering text):
C5
Prospective affecting provision: definitions inserted and substituted by Planning and Development Act 2024 (34/2024), s. 631 and sch. 7 ref. no. 44, not commenced as of date of revision.
F4[“core strategy” means a core strategy included in a development plan continued in force under section 68 of the Act of 2024, or in an integrated overall strategy under section 43 of that Act;]
F4[“functional area” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
F4[“habitable house” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
F4[“housing strategy” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
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F4[“land” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
F4[“local area plan” means a plan continued in force by section 81 of the Act of 2024;]
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F4[“planning authority” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
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F5[“regeneration land” means land identified, after the coming into operation of section 28, by a planning authority—
(a) in a development plan or local area plan made under the Act of 2000, in accordance with section 10(2)(h) of that Act, with the objective of development and renewal of areas in need of regeneration, and includes any structures on such land, or
(b) in its development plan, priority area plan, coordinated area plan or urban area plan made under the Act of 2024, with the objective of development and renewal of areas in need of regeneration, and includes any structures on such land;]
F5[“residential land” means land that is included by a planning authority—
(a) in a development plan or local area plan under the Act of 2000 in accordance with section 10(2)(a) of that Act, or
(b) in a development plan, priority area plan, coordinated area plan or urban area plan made under the Act of 2024,with the objective of zoning for use solely or primarily for residential purposes, and includes any structures on such land;]
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F4[“structure” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
F4[“unauthorised development” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]
F4[“unauthorised use” has the same meaning as it has in section 2 of the Act of 2024;]