Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Sonya Kavanagh:

As Ms Maguire said, we have to comply with the NPF. It is built into the hierarchy of plans within the overall planning policy. In the context of the current targets, and given that we are talking about the availability of land and putting a focus on town regeneration over the next few years, I suggest it may fall on local authorities to deliver the more complex sites, including brownfield sites, within our towns. We have to unlock sites in those areas to ensure we get consolidated development. We are hugely conscious of the requirement to develop sustainable communities, as has been mentioned. In the next few years, we will try to focus on those town regeneration areas and on our towns in general. We are definitely in compliance with the NPF and conscious of it.

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