Architect on Pat Kenney's Newstalk show criticised complexity, inconsistencies and delays of planning permissions for housing
See https://www.riai.ie/news/article/riai_outlines_key_recommendations_to_increase_delivery_of_new_houses The architect interviewed by Kenney on Thursday was the author of this report.
The recommendations of the report would if implemented contribute to an easing of the housing crisis by reducing planning delays which can take years in many cases.
The report should raise questions as to why this inconsistent and unnecessarily complicated planning bureaucracy was allowed to develop in the first place. Most likely, politicians are in no hurry to sort out planning delays because they feel the need to pander to NIMBY (not in my backyard) voters who influence elections. In the West Dublin constituency, Taoiseach Varadkar and former minister Joan Burton submitted objections not long ago to a housing project-presumably knee jerk responses typical of TDs. If planning officials treat such objections with a grain of salt, it wouldn't matter, however.
But can the government be trusted to carry out the necessary reforms to planning?
See https://www.riai.ie/news/article/riai_outlines_key_recommendations_to_increase_delivery_of_new_houses The architect interviewed by Kenney on Thursday was the author of this report.
The recommendations of the report would if implemented contribute to an easing of the housing crisis by reducing planning delays which can take years in many cases.
The report should raise questions as to why this inconsistent and unnecessarily complicated planning bureaucracy was allowed to develop in the first place. Most likely, politicians are in no hurry to sort out planning delays because they feel the need to pander to NIMBY (not in my backyard) voters who influence elections. In the West Dublin constituency, Taoiseach Varadkar and former minister Joan Burton submitted objections not long ago to a housing project-presumably knee jerk responses typical of TDs. If planning officials treat such objections with a grain of salt, it wouldn't matter, however.
But can the government be trusted to carry out the necessary reforms to planning?