Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 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 (Resumed)
Mr. Robert Keran:
That is absolutely so. The challenge then is that the process needs to be nimble enough to get that through quickly because you do not want to be stuck preparing a planning scheme for two years on a small site that needs to be developed quickly. The process has to be reactive enough to different scales of sites. There are some mechanisms, such as the strategic development regeneration area, SDRA, mechanism in the Dublin city development plan, that have approached something similar to a UDZ. Those mechanisms have these designations and master plans or framework plans that try to encourage or control the direction of developments. This seems to be what the UDZ is trying to do but grounded in legislation. I am not sure it is articulated correctly at the moment.
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