Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Land Development Agency Bill 2019: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. John O'Mahony:
Coming at the end, it is natural for me to say I agree with everything that has been said. I will make a couple of observations about land value capture. In Copenhagen, the authorities had a very interesting model where the port was effectively set up as an LDA-type organisation. The land it owned, which was the port lands and a very large military site on the edge of the city, were rezoned. The uplift in the value was used to build a metro and link the lands through the city. This was a very interesting way of using real value. There may be opportunities when we look at the value that might apply to lands the LDA buys-----
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