New planning Bill will be delivered by summer ‘come hell or high water’

The new Planning and Development Bill will be passed by the Oireachtas before the summer recess “come hell or high water”, Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien has said.

He said he received approval at a Cabinet subcommittee on housing on Monday night to extend the waiver of development levies and the refund of the Uisce Éireann connection charge until the end of the year. The suspension of the levies was intended to stimulate the building of new housing developments, and the level of commencements has increased sharply in the last 12 months. Ministers and senior officials believe the measure is working, and want to extend it.

Mr O’Brien said the Government’s new Planning and Development Bill is needed “urgently”. He has previously described the Bill, at over 700 pages in length, as “the cornerstone for Irish planning for the coming decades”. Mr O’Brien added that strategic planning objections are being used “as a tactic more than anything else”, and that those lodging them are aware of the “planning clock”.

Source: Real Estate Daily Report (realestatedailyreport.net)

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