Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Paul Hogan:

As Ms Graham said, if a proposal has an exemption, then it does not require planning permission. There is a notification requirement, because we do have information on the numbers of units brought forward under the exemption scheme. While they do not sound large, at the end of December last year, when the scheme had been in operation for three years, the figure stood at somewhere between 1,300 and 1,400 units, if I recall correctly. That is relatively small in the great scheme of things, but it is significant if we consider that the urban renewal tax-designated schemes, the town version of that, resulted in only several thousand residential units. I think about 4,000 or 5,000 residential units resulted from that approach. Therefore, it is already contributing.

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