Planning board gave green light to 770 co-living spaces through fast-track system in 2020

An Bord Pleanála to tell Public Accounts Committee it facilitated more than 25,000 housing units through Strategic Housing Development process

An Bord Pleanála gave permission in April to plan for a co-living scheme on the site of Phibsborough shopping centre. Photo: Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

An Bord Pleanála gave the go-ahead to 770 shared living spaces last year through the fast-track housing system, months before a ministerial order which banned co-living.

The planning board will tomorrow tell the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that it is predicting a rush of planning permissions for the expiring Strategic Housing Development (SHD) system before its provisions end in 2022.

In 2020, the regulator decided on 126 fast-track applications last year through the accelerated SHD ...