Ireland round-up: Scheme for 1,000 new homes to go ahead in Greater Dublin; Shake-up for legal challenges to planning decisions
A round-up of planning news in Ireland: 7 December-13 December, 2019
Scheme for 1,000 new homes to go ahead in Greater Dublin
An Bord Pleanála has approved more than 1,000 homes for a site in South Dublin in what is set to be the first large-scale housing development on local authority land in more than a decade.
The Planner
Shake up for legal challenges to planning decisions
Housing, planning and local government minister Eoghan Murphy has launched a public consultation on well-trailed and highly contentious reforms to the judicial review provisions in the Planning and Development Act 2000 as outlined in the Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019.
Irish Government
New wind farm development guidelines
Ministers have published for consultation revised wind energy development guidelines covering such issues as noise, visual amenity setback, shadow flicker, consultation obligations, community dividend and grid connections.
Irish Government
Pioneering electric vehicle-charging regs
The administration has launched a public consultation on draft building regulation requirements for electric vehicle-recharging infrastructure on new houses and on existing properties undergoing renovation.
Irish Government
Water quality in the state’s rivers and lakes is getting worse, with just 20 rivers having “pristine” conditions last year, down from more than 500 in the 1980s, an Environmental Protection Agency study has found.
Irish Times
The first 35 areas to be served with high-speed broadband under the National Broadband Plan have been revealed at a private industry meeting that identified that most are in the east and the Midlands.
Irish Times
A Fine Gael TD has lodged a planning objection against proposals for a major housing development of 590 flats on a site once owned by former Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave at Knocklyon, South Dublin.
Irish Independent
Terra Solar has been given the go-ahead by An Bord Pleanála for the development of another large solar farm, this one at Ballinvuskig, just to the south of Cork city.
Irish Independent
Hammerson, part-owner of Dundrum Town Centre, has obtained planning approval to construct a 107-unit flats complex beside the shopping centre – the company’s first foray into residential development in Ireland.
Irish Independent
One of the country’s best-known private members clubs has run into difficulties with the city council over the unauthorised erection of flagpoles over the main entrance to its headquarters in Dublin city centre.
Irish Times
Housebuilding activity has slowed for the first time since 2013, the latest Ulster Bank construction survey has found.
Irish Independent
Murphy defends government’s housing and homelessness record
Housing minister Eoghan Murphy defended the government’s housing and homelessness record in front of an Oireachtas housing committee this week as he pointed to significant increases in homeless adults and families moving into council housing over the past nine months and in the provision of social housing by local authorities.
Irish Government
Cash for senior roles in Louth
The government has announced a grant of €200,000 to Louth County Council for senior posts that will focus on the strategic development of Dundalk and Drogheda, both designated as regional growth centres.
Irish Government
Retail centre approved in Tullamore
Offaly County Council has approved a new €20 million retail centre in Tullamore involving 15 shops, eight homes, a cinema, cafes and restaurants.
Irish Times
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