47. The Fourth Schedule to the Principal Act is amended by inserting the following paragraph after paragraph 23:

>“23A. (1) The proposed development is by an applicant associated with a previous development (whether or not such previous development was within the functional area of the planning authority to which the proposed development relates) which—

(a) in the opinion of the planning authority in whose functional area the previous development is situated, has not been satisfactorily completed in the ordinary course of development, or

(b) the estate to which the previous development relates has not been taken in charge by the local authority concerned because the estate has not been completed to the satisfaction of that authority.

(2) In this paragraph ‘associated’, in relation to a previous development, means a development under the Planning and Development Acts 2000 to 2018 to which section 180 relates and in respect of which the development has not been satisfactorily completed or taken in charge by the local authority concerned due to the actions (whether of commission or omission) of—

(a) the applicant for the proposed development,

(b) a partnership of which the applicant is or was a member and which, during the membership of that applicant, carried out a development pursuant to a previous permission, carried out a substantial unauthorised development or has been convicted of an offence under this Act,

(c) a registered society under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts 1893 to 2014 that—

(i) carried out a development pursuant to a previous permission,

(ii) carried out a substantial unauthorised development, or

(iii) has been convicted of an offence under this Act,

or, during any period to which subclause (i) or (ii) relates or to which any conviction under subclause (iii) relates, the registered society was, during that period, controlled by the applicant—

(I) where, pursuant to section 15 of the Friendly Societies and Industrial and Provident Societies (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014, ‘control’ has the same meaning as in section 220(5) of the Companies Act 2014, or

(II) as a shadow director within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Companies Act 2014,

(d) where the applicant for the proposed development is a company—

(i) the company concerned is related to a company (within the meaning of section 2(10) of the Companies Act 2014) which carried out a development pursuant to a previous permission, carried out a substantial unauthorised development or has been convicted of an offence under this Act, or

(ii) the company concerned is under the same control as a company that carried out a development referred to in subparagraph (1) where ‘control’ has the same meaning as in section 220(5) of the Companies Act 2014,

or

(e) a company that carried out a development pursuant to a previous permission, carried out a substantial unauthorised development or has been convicted of an offence under this Act, which company is controlled by the applicant—

(i) where ‘control’ has the same meaning as in section 220(5) of the Companies Act 2014, or

(ii) as a shadow director within the meaning of section 2(1) of the Companies Act 2014.”.