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Bord Pleanala willing to extend role

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / December 08 1999: Bord Pleanala willing to extend role

An Bord Pleanála has said it has the capacity to deal with the extra functions assigned to it under the Planning and Development Bill, while acknowledging that current delays in its workload are "unacceptable".

According to its annual report issued yesterday, the board faced a record number of planning appeals last year - up 71 per cent on the annual average over 10 years to 4,548 - but it also notes that, with the deployment of extra staff, "there is now a distinct prospect of reducing the backlog significantly over the next three to six months".

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