The Planning and Building Regulations (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1990

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Part II of this Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the Planning (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 and related enactments. The principal amendments are to revise the procedure for making development plans, to provide for simplified planning zones, to confer on the Department of the Environment new powers to require planning applications to be made, to issue discontinuance orders and to enter into planning agreements with developers, to provide for the control of hazardous substances and to provide for the application, with certain modifications, of the planning enactments to Crown land.

Part III of the Order makes miscellaneous amendments to the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) Order 1979. The principal amendments are to provide a right of appeal to the Department against a contravention notice served by a district council, to enable a person to challenge such a notice by obtaining a written report from a qualified person and to prevent the service of such a notice more than eighteen months from the completion of the works in question.