Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Modern Construction Methods: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Dominic Stevens:

One element of that might be, whatever is desirous, the consumer who wants to buy the house has his or her ideas. One thing the Senator said is key. He mentioned the two cars in the driveway and there is no reason for them to be in the driveway. If we look at somewhere like Freiburg, where there has been very environmentally and pedestrian friendly development over a large number of years they have a four-storey prefabricated car park just on the edges of their development. In Holland there is a really good public realm and then a backyard where everyone puts their cars. The desire to put one's car outside one's house might be the thing that is lost and in fact with our development plans that is being lost. For one third of houses, people might have to walk 100 m to their car, albeit they car drive to their front door to make deliveries or can park one car at their front door. How to capture that in regulation is difficult because it becomes a question of quality.

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