About this Guide

Use this guide to help you complete your Planning Application Form

This guide contains some general information about applying for planning permission, gives help to complete the application form and sets out clearly all of the information which should be submitted with the application.  If you pay careful attention to the information in this guide, you will greatly assist the Council in considering your application and will save time in having a decision reached

Please note that in accordance with Section 38 of the Planning & Development Act 2000 Limerick County Council Planning Department is obliged to make copies of all applications available for public inspection.

This guide is intended as a Practical Guide. It is not a definitive legal interpretation of Planning Law. The Law governing the planning system is set out in the Local Government (Planning & Development) Acts, 2000-2006 and Local Government (Planning & Development) Regulations, 2001 to 2007 and may be purchased from the Government Publications Sales Office at Sun Alliance House, Molesworth Street, Dublin 2, telephone 01 66 13 111. Please note that the law may be updated from time to time.