Ireland

A round-up of planning news in Ireland: 7 October-13 October, 2017

Irish housing and planning minister Eoghan Murphy has said the country has some ‘ridiculous restrictions on the effective and efficient use of scarce and expensive building land’, and states that the sprawl has to stop.

During 2016, An Bord Pleanála reported a small but continued increase in case intake of 9 per cent that has been maintained in the first part of 2017, with case intake up 11 per cent for the first five months of the year.

South Dublin County Council has begun consulting on the draft planning scheme designed to help deliver 8,000 new homes in the proposed Clonburris Strategic Development Zone (SDZ).