Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Brendan Heneghan:
A frustration I have, and which is pertinent to the Deputy's point, is that it is a massive amount of work and one is on a tight timescale. One of the frustrations is that developers keep coming back to tweak something. They get permission to do one thing, and then decide they want a bit more. They come back in and one is at the same old stuff. There are developers having two or three bites of the cherry, and one is permanently engaged putting in objections and planning appeals etc. It is in the nature of being a planning officer on a residents' association in an area where there is a lot of active development.
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