Housing crisis
Although the Government wants to front-load housing construction after the pandemic to tackle the housing crisis, the regulator told the council that its draft plan has potential to undermine ânational and regional policy objectivesâ for compact growth.
The December targets reflect an assessment of national housing demand to 2040 by the Economic and Social Research Institute that was commissioned by the Government.
The regulatorâs letter of April 16th was signed by deputy regulator Anne Marie OâConnor, who said the recommendations should be prioritised and âwill require a lot of workâ.
The institution was established in 2019 to provide independent oversight of the planning process. One of its functions is to assess the preparation of development plans to ensure they properly apply national policies.
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Planning watchdog warns of negative impacts of numerous developments in south Dublin on M50 and Luas line
The OPR has criticised a new draft development plan by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council. By Seán McCárthaigh Friday 23 Apr 2021, 1:44 PM 3 hours ago 16,240 Views 37 Comments
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MULTIPLE DEVELOPMENTS IN a concentrated area of south Dublin could have adverse effects on the M50 and Luas in the area, according to the State’s planning watchdog.
The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) has criticised a new draft county development plan prepared by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
The document states it will continue to facilitate the development of extensive lands in Ballyogan, Carrickmines, Kiltiernan, Glenamuck and Cherrywood.
Cork County Council has brought a High Court challenge over a Ministerâs direction that it annul a change to its development plan which provides for a â¬100 million retail âoutlet centreâ in the east of the county.
The challenge, to be heard in the courtâs Strategic Infrastructure Development (SID) list, relates to a variation to the current plan made last year by councillors, and supported by chief executive Tim Lucey.
The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR), a newly established office to independently assess councilsâ forward planning and zoning decisions, recommended to the Minister for Housing and Urban Development the decision should be reversed.
A video of the new TD’s contribution to a Dáil debate on rural Ireland is gaining traction on social media after Ms Murphy attacked “a Karl Marx policy of corralling and forcing people to live in high-density, ghettoised settings with no infrastructure to support them.”
The 24-page reply of the regulator to the Wexford draft county development plan is on the county council website.
“The tone and tenor of the regulator’s letter is the equivalent of a missive one might expect to receive from the Politburo,” Ms Murphy said.
Requiring high densities “will shut down rural Wexford and ghettoise our towns. We need only look to the early 20th century and what happened in Eastern Europe at the hands of the ideologues such as Karl Marx and Josef Stalin,” she added.
Updated / Monday, 15 Mar 2021
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Members of Cork County Council made variations to the development plan in 2020
Cork County Council has brought a High Court challenge against the Minister for Local Government and the State over a direction that the local authority removes a variation it made to its county development plan.
The council s elected members made variations to the Cork County Development Plan (2014) including one regarding retail planning strategy in January 2020, after they had considered a detail report on the issue.
The variation was made after the council was satisfied that there is a capacity for having a major retail outlet centre in the Cork metropolitan area, and that such a proposal would not have an adverse impact on other retail centres in the area.