Analysis

Two year’s worth of new homes stuck in planning backlog - analysis

Fresh data from the Construction Information Services highlights that about 65,000 new residential units are tied up within planning appeals, judicial reviews, and Strategic Housing Developments processes

While blame is often directed at individual planning departments and processes for the delays in the delivery of houses in Ireland, the full scale of the issues plaguing each administrative process hasn’t been understood, until now

A current planning backlog is delaying the delivery of about 65,000 homes – or two year’s worth of needed homes to the Irish market.

The Irish planning system has been identified as one of the primary factors in the delay of housing delivery across Ireland, and while blame is often directed at individual planning departments and processes, the full scale of the issues plaguing each administrative process hasn’t been understood, until now.

“There is a ...