Draft Planning News Today

The Wicklow-based chair of Community Gardens Ireland has said it is “imperative” planning for community gardens is put back into the new Planning and Development Bill 2023 to protect spaces for biodiversity restoration, help reverse climate change and improve the well-being of the local communities that benefit from having these resources.

Eight years ago, I led a review which concluded that An Bord Pleanála was working with “integrity and professionalism”. Not any more

In light of Danang’s draft planning for 2021-2030, the central city is considering building a tunnel to cross the Han river in a bid to alleviate traffic volume flowing into the city centre.

In respect of Judicial Review application, the courts tend to look at the decision-making process and whether proper procedures were followed when coming to a decision.

Independent council raised issues in a letter to Coalition leaders and Minister for Housing, Darragh O’Brien, on Tuesday

Environmental groups say the proposed bill to streamline Irelands planning regulations do "exactly the opposite" of what is needed to reverse biodiversity loss.

Housing plan after plan has failed over the past decade, and with the number of homeless now at an all-time high of 11,500, the stakes are getting ever higher

Office of the Planning Regulator says ‘there needs to be a better way’ of holding planning authority accountable than asking it to pay fines to developers for missing mandatory decision-making timelines

The government is looking at the most substantial overhaul of planning law in 20 years

The new and updated Planning and Development Bill will bring about critical reform to our planning system, enabling us to deliver housing and infrastructure at a quicker pace, a Fine Gael Minister of State has said.