Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 May 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion

Mr. Eddie Taaffe:

Yes, I think so. We see a form of that happening. I have seen developers with large tracts of land coming in with a master plan for their overall vision for the site and then with the first phase of it, which is the planning application. We do that but it is probably not quite as open or as available to the public as one would imagine. It is part of a pre-planning process and the planning application process. There is merit to an "SDZ light" or "UDZ light" that could be done much quicker than two years. With that, everybody could get around the table and the high-level issues and deliverables could be identified, so at least the local authority would have a list of elements that other State actors need to provide and things that need to be done for housing to be unlocked on these sites.

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