Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion

Mr. Paul Hogan:

The way it is constructed is that rather than having to wait until everything is done to a great degree of detail, it is incorporated in the development plan at the outset. That is important for a lot of reasons, one of which is that if it is in the development plan, it means that nobody is held back. They are subject to the normal planning rules but if they are operating in accordance with the overall direction of travel for the area, they can come forward and work through normal planning. There is also an option to do a more detailed scheme. In taking the candidate UDZ forward, you can do it as a more specific scheme that will then lead to fast-track planning for all or part of the site. The person who wants to go ahead does not necessarily have to wait for that to happen because it has already been incorporated into the plan.

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