A Planning Authority register of all lands in its functional area shall contain an entry where a development comprises or is for the purpose of an activity that requires an abstraction licence,<\/p>\n
Where a development relates to an activity requiring an abstraction licence, the planning authority shall take into consideration that the control of abstractions is a function of the Agency.<\/p>\n
Before a planning authority makes a decision on proposed development for the purposes of which an abstraction licence is required, that the Board may request observations from the Agency.<\/p>\n
The Board is not to\u00a0 attach conditions for the purpose of the control of an abstraction to a grant of permission for development for the purposes of an activity for which an abstraction licence is required.<\/p>\n
There is provision for \u201cEnvironmental impact assessment relating to abstractions\u201d. There is coordination with the EPA in relation to EIAs as detailed in part 5. Tthe Board shall not include conditions relating to the control and operation of an abstraction, where an application relates to an activity requiring an abstraction licence. The Board may reject an application where proposed development would be inconsistent with the objectives of a River Basin Management<\/p>\n\n
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Updated Provision The primary purpose of the Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Act 2022 is to provide for a modern registration, licensing and control regime for water abstractions. The proposed system of registration and licensing is to be administered by the Environmental Protection Agency, with local authorities also maintaining an ongoing enforcement role. The […]<\/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":[114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28256"}],"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=28256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30187,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28256\/revisions\/30187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}