Services

You must apply to the local authority for a permit to use temporary signage to advertise events.

You must apply to the local authority if you want to temporarily close a road to facilitate building works, store materials, erect hoarding, fencing or scaffolding or place a crane or hoist on the road.

Local authorities may support Tidy Towns groups through networking meetings, seminars, funding and environmental initiatives.

Air pollution is a major environmental risk to health. Air pollution can increase the risk of stroke, heart disease, lung cancer, and both chronic and acute respiratory diseases, including asthma.

Local authorities may provide traffic calming measures such as signs, road markings, bollards, modified road surfaces, speed ramps and cushions to reduce speed rates and increase road safety.

Local authorities may require landowners to cut trees, shrubs, hedges and other vegetation on their lands that interferes with the safe use of a public road or footpath. Local authorities may take action against landowners.

Local authorities may plant, prune and fell tree in public parks, open green spaces, along roadsides, on roundabouts and in authorised housing estates to protect and maintain them.

Local authorities may maintain a register of approved gravediggers.

The National Waste Collection Office in Offaly County Council issues waste collection permits to approved collectors or transporters of waste.

You must pay a fee if you dispose of domestic or commercial waste in a local authority landfill or civic amenity site.