Welcome to Planning
The Heritage Council’s role in relation to planning is to ensure that local, county, regional, national and trans-boundary planning policies, objectives and programmes include stipulations for the proper planning, conservation and management of our national heritage. To this end, and in accordance with the provisions set out by the Heritage Act, 1995 [PDF 96KB], we provide policy advice to various levels of Government and prepare detailed submissions to Local Authorities and An Bord Pleanála in relation to planning applications which impact on heritage assets, we also provide professional planning and multi-disciplinary landscape management training.
LATEST NEWS
New Heritage Plan for County Monaghan
A new Heritage Plan for County Monaghan by Monaghan County Council was launched recently by Conor Newman, Heritage Council Chairman and Monaghan Mayor Cllr. Hugh McElvaney.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Place and Space Research Group - Training Courses
The Place and Space Research Group have just launched a exciting new training programme for 2013 and a new policy/academic journal called ‘Place and Space – the Journal of Placemaking’.
FEATURED INITIATIVE
Landscape Character Assessment: CDP Training Course
This CPD course will be of value to those whose professional work impinges on the Irish landscape, including planners, landscape architects, archaeologists, ecologists, architects and engineers. The course was conferred with the Irish Landscape Institute’s President’s Award in November 2009.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
National Community-Led Village Design Statement (VDS) Toolkit (2012)
The toolkit was prepared in 2012 by the Heritage Council in partnership with Dublin City Council and Meath County Council; and in collaboration with the village communities of both Sandymount, Dublin and Julianstown, Co. Meath....