Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Committee on Housing and Homelessness
National Asset Management Agency
10:30 am
Mr. Frank Daly:
On the planning point, there is one other thing that could be said. We have had a very good experience in Dublin in our work in the docklands because of the area's strategic development zone. That approach is possible in other areas, particularly in Dublin. It streamlines the whole process and avoids much of the appeal-reappeal process that Mr. McDonagh has talked about. There is one site in Dublin - the glass bottle site - which has the potential to deliver maybe 2,000 or 3,000 housing units but there has been no progress on getting to the stage where there is a plan for that area. We are strongly of the view that designating that as a strategic development zone would move things along much more quickly than is likely to happen under the current system.
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