Planning legislation (Section 251 of the Planning & Development Act 2000) provides that in calculating any appropriate period or other time limit referred to in the Planning & Development Acts 2000 - 2007 (other than a period specified in Part II) or in any Regulations made under the Acts, the period between the 24th day of December and the first day of January, both days inclusive, shall be disregarded. Accordingly, all time limits specified in connection with the planning application process, including time limits relating to the maintenance of site notices and receipt of submissions or observations (articles 20 and 29 of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001 ) are extended by 9 days.
To comply with this provision, applicants must retain their site notice for the extended period – ie five weeks and nine days.
Persons wishing to make submissions or observations on such applications as are affected by this period also have the extended period of five weeks and nine days to submit these to the Planning Authority.