S.I. No. 236/1964 - Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963 (Exempted Development) Regulations, 1964.

1. No such structure shall remain on the land for a period exceeding twelve months.

2. On the discontinuance of the use of the land, or any part thereof, all structures and materials shall be removed therefrom and the surface of the land shall be forthwith reinstated or, where reinstatement is not practicable, such excavation shall be effectively fenced or otherwise protected and, in the case of land in an area to which a special amenity area order relates, a hedge, bushes or trees shall be planted so as to screen the excavation.

Other excavations

Class 6

The excavation for the purposes of research or discovery of sites, features and other objects of archaeological, geological or historical interest the preservation of which is not an objective of any development plan.

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Class 7

The sinking of any well or the drilling of any borehole for the purpose of providing a water supply.

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Class 8

Any drilling or excavation for the purpose of surveying land or examining the depth and nature of the subsoil.

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PART IV

CLASSES OF USE

Class 1—Use as a shop for any purpose except as—

(a) a fried fish shop,

(b) a shop for the sale of pet animals or birds,

(c) a shop for the sale or display for sale of motor vehicles other than bicycles.

Class 2—Use as an office for any purpose.

PART IV—(continued)

Class 3—Use as a light industrial building for any purpose.

Class 4—Use as a general industrial building for any purpose.

Class 5—Use for any work which is registrable under the Alkali, etc. Works Regulation Act, 1906 except a process ancillary to the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals, carried on in or adjacent to a quarry or mine; use for any of the following processes, except as aforesaid, so far as not registrable under the above Act:—

(a) smelting, calcining, sintering or reduction of ores, minerals, concentrates or matter,

(b) converting, reheating, annealing, hardening, melting, carburising, forging or casting of iron or other metals or alloys,

(c) recovering of metal from scrap or drosses or ashes,

(d) galvanising,

(e) pickling or treatment of metal in acid,

(f) chromium plating.

Class 6—Use for any of the following processes so far as not included in class 5 of this Part of this Schedule and except a process ancillary to the getting, dressing or treatment of minerals, carried on in or adjacent to a quarry or mine—

(a) burning of building bricks,

(b) lime burning,

(c) production of calcium carbide or zinc oxide,

(d) foaming, crushing or screening of stone or slag.

Class 7—Use for any of the following purposes so far as not included in class 5 of this Part of this Schedule—

(a) the production or employment of cyanogen or its compounds,

(b) the manufacture of glass, where the sodium sulphate used exceeds 1.5 per cent of the total weight of the melt,

(c) the production of zinc chloride.

Class 8—Use for any of the following purposes so far as not included in class 5 of this Part of this Schedule—

The distilling, refining or blending of oils, the production or employment of cellulose lacquers (except their employment in garages in connection with minor repairs), hot pitch or bitumen or pyridine; the stoving of enamelled ware; the production of amyl acetate, aromatic esters, butyric acid, caramel, hexamine, iodoform, B-naphthol, resin products (except synthetic resins, plastic moulding or extrusion compositions and plastic sheet, rods, tubes, filaments, fibres or optical components produced by casting, calendering, moulding, shaping or extrusion), salicylic acid or suphonated organic compounds; paint and varnish manufacture (excluding mixing, milling and grinding); the production of rubber from scarp; or the manufacture of acetylene from calcium carbide for sale or for use in a further chemical process.

Class 9—Use as a wholesale warehouse or enclosed repository building for any purpose.

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Class 10—Use as a residential club, a hotel providing sleeping accommodation, a guest house or a hostel.

Class 11—Use as a structure for public worship or religious instruction; use of such structure for the social or recreational activities of the religious body using the structure; use as a monastery or convent.

Class 12—Use as a residential or boarding school or a residential college.

Class 13—Use as a convalescent home, a maternity home, a nursing home, a sanatorium, a hospital, a health centre, a clinic, a creche, a day nursery, a dispensary, or a home or institution for the boarding, care and maintenance of children, old people, incapacitated persons or persons suffering from mental disability.

Class 14—Use as an art gallery (not being a business premises), a museum a public library or reading room, a public hall, an exhibition hall, a social centre, a community centre or a non-residential club, but not as a dance hall, music hall or conert hall.

Class 15—Use as a theatre, a cinema, a music hall, a concert hall.

Class 16—Use as a skating rink, or a gymnasium, or for indoor games or sports (including boxing, wrestling and bowling).

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Twenty-eighth day of September, 1964.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations prescribe classes of development which, in addition to those set out in subsection (1) of

section 4

of the

Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963

, are exempted development for the purposes of that Act. Permission under Part IV of that Act is not required in respect of exempted development.

3. No wall or fence shall exceed 6 feet in height above ground level and no other such structure within 100 yards of any public road shall exceed 21 feet in height above ground level.

PART III—(continued)

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Description of development

Conditions

Mining

Class 5

The use of land for the purpose of the winning and working of minerals, the carrying out of works incidental thereto (other than opencast mining or surface working or the deposit of refuse or waste materials) and, in the case of land other than land situate in an area to which a special amenity area order relates, the erection or placing of structures on the land for such specific purpose.

4. No tent or caravan shall be placed on land within 50 yards of any public road unless the land is enclosed by a wall, bank or hedge, or any combination thereof, having an average height of not less than 5 feet.

Minor works and structures

Class 2

Works relating to the construction or maintenance of any gully, drain, pond, trough, pit or culvert, the widening or deepening of watercourses the removal of obstructions from watercourses and the making or repairing of embankments.

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Class 3

The erection of any stand or ramp for loading or unloading vehicles (excluding the erection of a ramp on a public road and any stand which projects over any paved or metalled part of a public road).

5. The total area of such advertisements exhibited on or attached or affixed to the front of any building shall not exceed an area equal to 1 square foot for every foot length of such front less the total area of any such advertisements exhibited on the premises but not exhibited on or attached or affixed to the building.

6. The total area of such advertisements exhibited on or attached or affixed to any face of a building other than the front thereof shall not exceed 12 square feet and the total area of any such advertisements on

PART II—(continued)

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Description of development

Conditions

Class 13—continued.

such face which are internally illuminated shall not exceed 3 square feet.

7. Where any such advertisement consists of a circular sign and projects more than 2 inches over any public road, the diameter of such sign shall not exceed 3 feet and no other such advertisement shall be exhibited on a sign projecting more than 2 inches over the public road.

8. Where any one or more such advertisements are exhibited on a swinging or fixed sign or other advertisement structure (other than a circular sign) projecting more than 2 inches from any external face of any structure, the total area of such advertisements shall not exceed 12 square feet and the area of any face of such advertisement structure shall not exceed 4 square feet.

9. No such advertisement shall cover any part of any window in any building on which the advertisement is exhibited or to which it is attached or affixed.

Class 14

An advertisement in the form of a flag which is attached to a single flagstaff fixed in an upright position on the roof of a business premises, and which bears no inscription or emblem other than the name or device or a person occupying the building.

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Class 15

Any advertisement relating to a presidential, Dáil or local election or referendum.

No such advertisement shall be exhibited for more than seven days after the date of the election or referendum to which it relates.

Class 16

Advertisements required to be exhibited by or under any enactment, including (but without prejudice to the generality hereof) advertisements the exhibition of which is so required as a condition of the valid exercise of any power, or proper performance of any function, given or imposed by such enactment, or for compliance with any procedure prescribed by or under any enactment.

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Conditions

Class 17

Advertisements consisting of placards, posters or bills relating to the visit of any travelling circus, funfair, carnival, show, cinema, musicians, players or other travelling entertainment.

S.I. No. 236 of 1964.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT (PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT) ACT, 1963 (EXEMPTED DEVELOPMENT) REGULATIONS, 1964.

The Minister for Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

sections 4

and

10

of the

Local Government (Planning and Development) Act, 1963

(No. 28 of 1963), hereby makes the following Regulations :—