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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: One of the principles of proper planning is that it is done in the common good. In terms of the zoned land types, I have been approached by people whose land has been included in the zoned land tax. They do not want to pay the tax but neither do they want the land dezoned because it is obviously worth a lot more as an asset as zoned land. I expect that in many cases the land would be...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...complex. In order to get it right, the Minister has to take his time. There is no doubt about that. I would be concerned that we will end up with a request for de-zoning and that we zone other land. One in five or one in six land parcels that are zoned proceed to development within the lifespan of a development plan. There is no guarantee that land being zoned under one development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: The Land Development Agency is going through the Houses now. The Land Development Agency will have responsibility and capability in infrastructural delivery and acquiring land and working closely with local authorities. Does the CCMA see the advantages of the measures in the Land Development Agency Bill and the affordability legislation working in tandem?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...it is generally accompanied by a chief executive's report and recommendation, and possibly, the Planning Regulator etc. Will there be criteria set out as to how to make a judgment on whether this land should be dezoned? A local authority is obliged to have enough land zoned to meet the core strategy and the needs of the population. We have all been through local authorities and are aware...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2024)

Steven Matthews: ...for residential, mixed use, employment zones, etc., but when we come to the next development plan it is still there on the map and nothing has happened. I appreciate that we are introducing various land activation measures so that we do not have zoned lands sitting there for so long. Incentives are being introduced to make people develop those lands, or disincentives to not do it. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Before Mr. O'Connell responds, I will ask another question he may also wish to answer. When someone secures planning permission on land and the value of that land obviously goes up in value, does that have an impact on surrounding lands as well? Does it raise the value of all lands in the area? If somebody can get 400 units on that site, will the value of a site nearby also be lifted?

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (10 Mar 2021)

Steven Matthews: 1026. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the existing policy that offers indemnity to private land owners, whose land is crossed by a registered horse trail, if there is an accident; and if a similar policy will be considered that would allow indemnity on public land that would include land owned by Coillte to allow for the expansion of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: It is not necessarily about land ownership. It is about having the consent of the land owner to apply for planning permission or the applicant being the land owner. If a person ticks the box to the effect that he or she is the land owner, when quite clearly he or she is not, the application will have gone far beyond where you come back to this point and then maybe there can be a so-what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill: Discussion (11 May 2021)

Steven Matthews: The committee has had the opportunity to meet the LDA and tease out some of its plans. My understanding from those meetings is that its main purpose is not to purchase local authority land. Its main purpose is to assist local authorities in developing these lands, helping with the design, all that planning aspect as well as the financial aspect. I understand the concern about section...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Mar 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...83 of this proposed legislation, relating to the conditions that can be attached to a commission, and specifically section 83(2)(a), which refers to "conditions regulating the development or use of any land or maritime...that adjoins, abuts or is adjacent to the land or maritime site to be developed, and is under the control of the applicant". It is possible to attach a condition to land...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...tax introduced for the first time last year, although at too low a rate. I was very pleased to see it increase to where we thought it should be placed last year. I was also happy to see the zoned land tax introduced last year as a land activation measure. Its aim is to stimulate the use of that land, or to have it sold on to somebody who is going to use it, and not just leave it there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: ...me and Senator Cummins to go. We are talking about a concept whereby the State or an entity like HISCo supplies the infrastructure to the site. If the argument is then that we should zone much more land, do those things not counter each other? Which land would we decide to prioritise? If professional planners, with input from all the agencies, determine this is enough land at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Steven Matthews: On the land value capture or land value sharing on the newly zoned land, would Mr. Jones also apply sections 48 and 49 to developments built there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (25 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: I will follow on from the line of questioning by Deputies O'Callaghan and Ó Broin in terms of the principle of rezoning and dezoning. It is very rarely that we see land dezoned and for any of us who has ever sat through county development plan meetings, it is quite common to see land rezoned against all recommendations. I include the land tax in this as well but does the CCMA think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Jun 2023)

Steven Matthews: Exactly. Let someone else take it on. I have the sense that there is agreement that land value sharing is a good thing in terms of planning and sustainability, and is for the common good. It is the actions of the State that increased the value of that land so the State designates, through the planning process, that the land is suitable and needed for development. The zoning and planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency: Chairman Designate (20 Jan 2022)

Steven Matthews: ...done to advance that aspect and regular updates for the committee. The LDA has, indeed, always been willing to engage with the committee and we will continue to do so. Report No. 150 from NESC on land management was referred to earlier. A statement at the start of that report on housing and land-use policy specifies that: Ireland must bring about a fundamental change in its system of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Construction Costs in Housing: Discussion (24 May 2022)

Steven Matthews: Often land that we know will not be serviced gets zoned as a result of a county development plan. Often the advice is not to zone that land but it still ends up getting zoned. We have difficulty with accountability in the planning system. I wish to ask about master planning. We need to encourage people to engage in the development plan process. Instead of just having vague colours on...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Steven Matthews: Sure. I know where there is overzoning in a draft plan that the regulator will also recommend to the Minister to issue a direction, which often happens. We also have situations with strategic land banking, as it is called in my county. It is land that was zoned. Nobody wanted to dezone it, so this interim strategic land banking was applied. That needs to be considered as part of this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Steven Matthews: My understanding was that the windfall tax, as it was back in 2009, would have been a tax on newly-zoned land, whereas this would capture everything. I was not present for the first session on this, and I keep meaning to listen back to it as I think many of the questions I have were answered. However, this is retrospective as well, so it would apply to a piece of land which has been zoned...