Written answers

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government

Housing Data

Photo of Eoin Ó BroinEoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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711. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the housing supply targets for all local authorities; the context of the current review of the county development plans and the National Planning Framework in tabular form. [18939/21]

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Further to work commissioned by the Housing and Planning Divisions of my Department, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) published a report into structural housing demand in Ireland to 2040, on 14 December 2020. The ESRI research “Regional Demographics and Structural Housing Demand at County Level” provides an annual new household demand figure for each county from 2016 to 2040, for a number of difference development scenarios, including the NPF scenario, as an alternative spatial distribution to a’ business-as-usual’ approach.

Subsequently, a Ministerial Circular and the ‘Housing Supply Target Methodology for Development Planning, Guidelines for Planning Authorities’ were issued to all local authorities under Section 28 of the Planning & Development Act, 2000 (as amended). The Guidelines introduced a standardised national approach to be employed by each planning authority in projecting housing supply targets for each specific six-year period, when reviewing city or county development plans.

In addition to the ESRI work, the housing supply target methodology enables unmet housing demand, including homeless households to be taken into account, based on the latest available information for each local authority area and nationally. As each six-year development plan period will differ, new household projection data for each County to 2031 was also made available to each local authority.

All relevant data is available on my Department’s website at the following link:

The housing supply target methodology also provides for a convergence period towards the NPF scenario to 2026, recognising that existing spatial patterns will need a period to align with the NPF strategy. Increased housing may be planned for within this period as set out in Section 4 of the Guidelines, where supported by a justification within the criteria specified. The Office of the Planning Regulator will examine such justifications as part of their statutory assessment of development plans function.

Each local authority must therefore apply the methodology to the particular timelines and projections for their County or City Development Plan as part of their development plan process. As these are individual development plans, none of which has been completed to date, there is no single table of local authority housing supply targets for each development plan at this time.

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