Lack of qualified planning staff leads to delays

Development projects are being delayed, sometimes for over a year, by bottlenecks in planning departments across Ireland.

“The dramatic increase in large-scale – and complex – planning applications, particularly in the main urban centres, has not been met with a reciprocal increase in qualified staff within the planning departments,” said Colin McGill, principal of McGill Planning. “This is leading to significant delays in securing planning permission,” he said.

“Given that most large schemes ...