Written answers
Thursday, 23 November 2006
Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government
Local Authority Housing
5:00 pm
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 291: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the number of planning permissions by council, where the number of completions is identical to the number permitted that fall within housing estates; the number of such houses or estates that are on local authority lists for taking in charge; the number of houses in housing estates by council described as abandoned or where the developer is no longer contactable and where significant problems prevent the estate being taken in charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39892/06]
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Independent)
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Question 292: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if he has been contacted by a council or councils seeking funding to remediate housing estates not yet in charge that have been abandoned by the original developer; if such funding has been sought, the councils involved; the amount of same; the number of housing units or estates involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39893/06]
Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 291 and 292 together.
Table 1 under, which is based on data supplied by local authorities for the Report on Service Indicators in Local Authorities 2005, sets out the numbers of grants of permission for individual houses and for housing developments in 2005. House completions in 2005 are set out in Table 2. Table 3 summarises the responses to a survey of planning authorities earlier this year regarding estates to be taken in charge. The other information sought by the Deputy is not collected or held by my Department. My Department, has not been contacted by any local authority in relation to financing the remediation of individual private housing estates.
Table 1: Number of planning applications granted 2005 | ||
Single houses | Housing developments | |
Carlow County Council | 273 | 48 |
Cavan County Council | 1,232 | 190 |
Clare County Council | 754 | 100 |
Cork City Council | 62 | 64 |
Cork County Council | 2,450 | 306 |
Donegal County Council | 3,208 | 409 |
Dublin City Council | 373 | 197 |
Dún Laoghaire Rathdown | 214 | 87 |
Fingal County Council | 257 | 114 |
Galway City Council | 40 | 27 |
Galway County Council | 2,152 | 155 |
Kerry County Council | 1,520 | 386 |
Kildare County Council | 644 | 122 |
Kilkenny County Council | 555 | 64 |
Laois County Council | 389 | 55 |
Leitrim County Council | 605 | 90 |
Limerick City Council | 6 | 6 |
Limerick County Council | 800 | 111 |
Longford County Council | 454 | 153 |
Louth County Council | 644 | 74 |
Mayo County Council | 1,632 | 192 |
Meath County Council | 566 | 95 |
Monaghan County Council | 567 | 98 |
North Tipperary County Council | 444 | 63 |
Offaly County Council | 436 | 57 |
Roscommon County Council | 1,032 | 243 |
Sligo County Council | 785 | 97 |
South Dublin County Council | 194 | 53 |
South Tipperary County Council | 496 | 82 |
Waterford City Council | 28 | 16 |
Waterford County Council | 514 | 51 |
Westmeath County Council | 515 | 65 |
Wexford County Council | 1,170 | 361 |
Wicklow County Council | 476 | 113 |
Total | 25,487 | 4,343 |
Table 2: New Houses Completed by Type — 2005 | ||||
County* | Individual House | Scheme House | Apartments | Total |
Carlow | 303 | 717 | 180 | 1,200 |
Cavan | 722 | 1,318 | 89 | 2,129 |
Clare | 843 | 1,211 | 120 | 2,174 |
Cork | 2,189 | 5,024 | 1,629 | 8,842 |
Donegal | 1,688 | 1,765 | 214 | 3,667 |
Dublin | 973 | 7,504 | 9,542 | 18,019 |
Galway | 1,852 | 1,952 | 859 | 4,663 |
Kerry | 1,338 | 1,431 | 414 | 3,183 |
Kildare | 558 | 2,244 | 782 | 3,584 |
Kilkenny | 492 | 690 | 192 | 1,374 |
Laois | 367 | 1,219 | 216 | 1,802 |
Leitrim | 304 | 449 | 107 | 860 |
Limerick | 811 | 1,539 | 793 | 3,143 |
Longford | 364 | 556 | 53 | 973 |
Louth | 443 | 1,352 | 400 | 2,195 |
Mayo | 1,069 | 1,075 | 257 | 2,401 |
Meath | 606 | 2,805 | 475 | 3,886 |
Monaghan | 401 | 460 | 92 | 953 |
Offaly | 417 | 747 | 38 | 1,202 |
Roscommon | 552 | 662 | 102 | 1,316 |
Sligo | 402 | 608 | 154 | 1,164 |
Tipperary | 1,035 | 1,525 | 188 | 2,748 |
Waterford | 483 | 1,309 | 132 | 1,924 |
Westmeath | 507 | 910 | 217 | 1,634 |
Wexford | 1,220 | 1,676 | 284 | 3,180 |
Wicklow | 423 | 1,412 | 506 | 2,341 |
Totals | 20,362 | 42,160 | 18,035 | 80,557 |
Table 3 | ||
1 | Housing estates to be taken in charge in 2006 | 625 |
2 | Number of houses involved in estates in Answer 1 | 30,353* |
3 | Number of housing estates for which the life of the relevant planning permission expired more than 2 years ago which have not yet been taken in charge? | 2,423 |
4 | Number of estates referred to in Answer 3 in which the relevant permission expired more than 7 years ago | 901 |
5 | Number of estates referred to in Answer 3 which are finished (i.e. completed to the required standard under the planning permission) | 785 |
6 | Number of houses involved in Answer 5 (in the finished estates referred) | 31,722* |
7 | Number of estates referred to in Answer 3 which are unfinished (i.e. not completed to the required standard within the appropriate period or since)? | 1,160 |
8 | Number of houses involved in Answer 7 (in the unfinished estates referred to) | 40,042* |
9 | Total number of houses in the estates not yet taken in charge | 71,764* |
Note 1: The status of some estates, that is finished or unfinished, was not known by the planning authority, hence the total of the number of finished and unfinished estates in Answers 5 and 7 does not equal, as it should, the number of estates in Answer 2. | ||
*Note 2: In many cases the planning authority was unable to give the information as to the number of houses in the estates. |
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