The 1999 Planning and Development Act made enhanced provision for the protection of the built heritage. Protected structures were introduced as an enhanced protection status to that which had existed.\u00a0 The protection may cover the building, the internal features and characteristics.<\/p>\n
A protected structures requires a permission similar to planning permission for works affecting these features.\u00a0 The normal exemption for internal works is excluded. The legislation required the local authorities to compile a register of protected structures.\u00a0 They may be buildings of special architectural, historical, archaeological, artistic, cultural, scientific, social, or technical interest.<\/p>\n
The 2000 Act provided for designation of architectural conservation areas. Protection may \u00a0extend to elements and features of the building including the inside and curtilage of the building,<\/p>\n
Conservation officers are appointed to inspect and survey buildings, assess architectural importance, provide advice, negotiate and advise owners, local group The authority may provide schemes for grants and conservation etc.<\/p>\n
Each planning authority is obliged to provide policy objectives to avoid protection of th the heritage in development plan.\u00a0 Similar principles applied to areas designation as architectural conservation areas.<\/p>\n\n
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General Powers The Local Government Act 1991 enhanced the general powers of the local authority to take step in accordance with law to promote the interests of its \u00a0community. This could include social, economic, environmental, recreational, cultural, and general development. It could finance or co-finance programmes of economic, recreational, cultural community and general development activity. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11851"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13229,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11851\/revisions\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}