AQW 9340/17-22

Mr Andrew Muir
Alliance Party
North Down

Tabled Date: 22/10/2020
Answered On Date: 30/10/2020
Priority Written: No

Question:
To ask the Minister for Infrastructure for her assessment of whether Newry, Mourne and Down District Council should have notified her Department to undertake a transboundary notification and consultation to Louth County Council concerning the recent Nikkon Gas UK and Ireland development.

Answer:

This planning application was determined by Newry, Mourne & Down District Council some time ago on 21 October 2015. I can confirm that my Department has not received a transboundary notification for this application from Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.

The obligations for the management of such a local application are laid out in legislation and it is a matter for a district council, in its role as local planning authority, to satisfy itself that these obligations have been met.