Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Strategic Housing Development Review: Discussion

Ms Rachel Kenny:

We do watch it and have regard to it. Every single report will have a section on the planning history and any changes to proposals coming before the board. We look at that at the pre-application stage in the first instance. Where permission has been granted through section 34 or the SHD process and changes have been proposed, we would query why that is the case and ask whether it is to the benefit of the area in question and the development itself. That is something that is very much considered.