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A Clare architect has criticised the Government’s new house design guidelines, saying they reduce it to a numbers game. The Sustainable Residential Development and Compact Settlements Guidelines are aimed at creating more attractive, liveable, well-designed, high quality urban spaces. It’s hoped they will also provide a broader range of housing options to meet the needs […]

A new proposal from the Clare Social Democrats would only permit locals who can prove that a development would directly impact their daily lives to object to a planning application. It follows nationwide reports of “serial objectors” lodging illegitimate appeals in order to extract pay-offs from developers and subsequently delaying construction works. The suggestion from […]

A Clare architect believes the new national planning and development bill will remove all future public influence on where to build in the county.

The Clare branch of the Social Democrats is calling on the government redirect funds intended for private emergency accommodation to permanent housing schemes instead. Last year, the state spent €21.7m on contracts for hotels hosting Ukrainian refugees in just this county. At the end of 2022 meanwhile 1,430 tenancies here were living in properties supported […]

The Clare branch of the Social Democrats is raising concerns that a new planning bill due to be introduced by government will severely curtail the power of local authorities. The Planning and Development Bill will be brought to Dáil Eireann on September 20th, with a view to expediting the construction process. However, the 54th directive […]