Please note that this Proposed Variation / Arklow Local Planning Framework (LPF) was previously advertised as ‘Proposed Variation No. 5 to the Wicklow County Development Plan / Draft Arklow LPF’, but in the intervening period since its publication, a different variation (relating to the Wicklow Core Strategy primarily) has been made to the Wicklow County Development Plan, which is now identified as made ‘Variation No. 5’. References to ‘Proposed Variation No. 5’, referring to this Arklow LPF related variation, may remain in some accompanying documentation.

View the variation / LPF making process here for the Arklow Local Planning Framework (LPF) 2026 / Variation to the County Development Plan 2022 -2028.

Local Planning Frameworks (LPF) form part of the Wicklow County Development Plan 2022-2028 and are adopted into the County Development Plan via the variation procedure set out under Section 13 of the of the Planning & Development Act 2000 (as amended).