Small Scale Renewable Energy (Microgeneration) Permitted Development Rights – Public Consultation Document
22nd January 2007

The purpose of this consultation is to obtain the views of the public and all interested parties on the provision of permitted development rights (‘PD rights’) for microgeneration (small scale renewable energy) development associated with dwellinghouses and within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse.

PD rights provided by the Planning (General Development) Order (Northern Ireland) 1993 (S.R. 1993. No.278) (the ‘GDO’), allow certain, often minor or non-contentious, types of development to proceed without the need for a planning application, since planning permission for them is deemed to be granted. This helps reduce the number of planning applications and the regulatory burden of the planning system. The exercise of these rights is subject to specific exclusions and conditions.

The Department is committed to reviewing existing householder PD rights and providing a simplified regulatory regime for microgeneration development that will facilitate such development. Existing PD rights mostly date back to the mid 1990s and were not designed to facilitate microgeneration development. Their application to microgeneration development can be uncertain.

To assist the reader, the Department has produced a policy document a 'Review of Permitted Development Rights for Small Scale Renewable Energy Development', as a companion reference to the consultation document. Together the documents consider the issues, options, impacts and constraints relating to each of the main microgeneration technologies and invite responses to a range of questions.

Associated Documentation

Document	Details
Microgeneration Permitted Development Rights - Consultation Document	311 KB
Questionnaire	1,188 KB
Review of Permitted Development Rights for Small Scale Renewable Development	351 KB

Organisation	Details
N.I. Judicial Appointments Committee	55 KB
N.I. Tourist Board	14 KB
K.C.M.S.	80 KB
Energy Conservation Unit	4,600 KB
N.I. Authority For Energy Regulation	4,020 KB
Action Renewables	4,043 KB
Ulster Farmers Union	1,691 KB
Royal Institution Of Chartered Surveyors N.I.	31 KB
Energy Saving Trust	26 KB
National Grid Wireless	155 KB
Council For Nature Conservation And Countryside	21 KB
Chief Enviromental Health Officers Group N.I.	5,476 KB
Craigavon Borough Council	4757 KB
Ballymoney Borough Council	2,083 KB
Building Regulations Unit	127 KB
Housing Council	3,855 KB
R.S.P.B.	138 KB
Larne Borough Council	4,748 KB
Ballymena Borough Council	141 KB
Derryhale Residents Association	133 KB
Anonymous	4,761 KB
Newtownabbey Borough Council	92 KB
N.I. Environment Link	110 KB
N.I. Energy Agency	114 KB
Institute of Historic Building Conservation	159 KB

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