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A new report has found that the number of units in planned Strategic Housing Developments (SHD) in Dublin that have been delayed or cancelled as a result of judicial reviews has risen tenfold in the last year.
There has been more than a tenfold increase in the number of ‘fast-track’ strategic housing schemes in Dublin to be quashed or delayed by judicial reviews, including the high-profile scheme on the RTÉ site in Montrose. According to the annual Construction Report by consultants Mitchell McDermott, just 508 units in strategic housing developments (SHD) in the city were held up by reviews in 2019, but that figure jumped to 5,802 in 2020. Nationally, there has been a seven-fold increase in the number of units in SHDs stalled due to judicial reviews, with 6,969 reviews last year compared to 1...