Planning and Development (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. No. 219 of 2013).

These Regulations amend the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 in provisions concerning exempted development. A planning exemption is being introduced in respect of remedial works carried out in compliance with an advisory notice from a water services authority requiring remediation in cases where septic tanks or other onsite waste water treatment systems have been assessed by the water services authority as causing or likely to cause a risk to human health or the environment. e thinning, felling or replanting of trees, forests or woodlands (not including the replacement of broadleaf high forest by conifer species) and the construction or maintenance of a forest road are exempted development under section 4 of the Act because they come under consent systems under the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine. However the effect of the amendments to section 4(4) of the Act, introduced by section 17 of the Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2011, are to bring such development back under the Planning and Development Act if it would require environmental impact assessment or appropriate assessment.