Wexford County Council Planning Authority
List of Approved Newspapers
Planning and Development Act 2000
Article 18(2)(a) Planning & Development Regulations 2001 states:
“For the purposes of these Regulations, each Planning Authority shall approve a list of the newspapers, including national newspapers, it considers has a sufficiently large circulation in its functional area, and different newspapers may be approved in respect of different parts of such functional area.”
Please note that the following newspapers are acceptable for Public Notices regarding Planning Applications:
- The Irish Independent (The Evening Hearld)
- The Irish Times
- The Irish Examiner
- The Echo Group
- The People Group (County Wexford)
- Mirror Group Newspapers (The Irish Daily Mirror, The Irish Sunday Mirror and The Irish People)
- The Star
- Irish Daily Mail and Irish Mail on Sunday
- The Irish Sun
- The Sunday Times
- The Irish News
- The Sunday World
Article 18(2)(b) Planning & Development Regulations 2001 states:
“The list referred to in paragraph (a) shall be reviewed by the Planning Authority as may be appropriate and at least once a year”.
At the date of review (29th June 2010) there were no requests to be added to the list or no requests to be removed from the list.
I, therefore, approve the above named newspapers as acceptable regarding Planning Applications for the coming year.
Sean Kavanagh,
Senior Staff Officer,
Planning Department.

