Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 May 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator

Mr. Niall Cussen:

That emphasises my point. It is critical that, when local councils are making their development plans, they understand the implications of zoning land in a particular location and what the density guidelines, which date back many years, can entail. The board cannot insist on a density that is beyond what is set out in the Minister's guidelines. It works within the framework of the density guidelines. It is important that, when local councils are making decisions, zoning land and so on, they think through the implications of what a development might look like. This has to do with the point made by Senator Moynihan among others about joining the dots. In the planning history of this country, it has too often been about who benefits from the zoning of the land rather than necessarily what the community will be living with if there is development of that scale, in that location or of that pattern as a result.

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