Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government

Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Cian O'CallaghanCian O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay North, Social Democrats)
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If we could get some of these sites activated, that could lead to 220 or 230 cost rental homes a year being delivered. What measures would help to activate them? What measures at local or national level could be taken to help local authorities activate some of these unused planning permissions? This is a key issue across the country, with approximately 80,000 unactivated planning applications, of which a large number have come through the SHD process, as Ms Doherty stated, and are owned by a few actors?