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Land Development Agency

Planning

Developers push back against new land-hoarding taxes

Homebuilders and investment funds are lobbying to avoid millions of euro-worth of taxes on inactive land banks which have received planning permission
  • Killian Woods
  • January 29, 2023
Housing

State land agency outsources €42 million of work in four years

LDA has built no homes on state lands yet, but has agreed contracts with outside firms for everything from architectural to legal services
  • Killian Woods
  • January 21, 2023
Housing

Internal report: LDA pays more to build affordable homes than EU neighbours

Confidential Land Development Agency comparison report seen by the Business Post
  • Killian Woods
  • January 7, 2023
Housing

Delays and debate: Inside the Land Development Agency’s first four years

The Land Development Agency was launched in 2018 with the promise of becoming as significant a state body as the ESB or the IDA. Four years on, with no houses yet delivered on state land, what has the body achieved?
  • Killian Woods
  • January 7, 2023
Housing

Government housing body has not built one house on state lands

All 270 homes delivered by the Land Development Agency to date have been bought from private developers. Sinn Féin’s Eoin Ó Broin claims the agency is competing with first-time buyers and approved housing bodies for limited number of new builds
  • Killian Woods
  • December 31, 2022
Housing

Developer rails against ‘diabolical’ process as Coolock housing plan is rejected

Having rezoned the former Chivers factory site from commercial to residential, developer Andrew Gillick wanted to build 550 affordable units for ‘normal people’. But then began a long and ill-fated email exchange with the Land Development Agency
  • Killian Woods
  • June 25, 2022

Relic of old Dundrum set for new lease of life as a ‘garden city’ transformation looms

Planning application includes plans for 881 homes, a landscaped pedestrian route parallel to the village’s main street, a new square and three mini parks
  • Donal Buckley
  • April 3, 2022

Productivity in construction has been ‘poor’ — new LDA boss

Cormac O’Rourke says builders ‘continue to execute a traditional site-based approach’ and the LDA will ‘encourage standardisation and modular construction’
  • Killian Woods
  • January 20, 2022

Moran: government must show more urgency on housing crisis

John Moran, the former secretary general of the Department of Finance and ex-chair of the Land Development Agency, said the government’s current approach to delivering affordable homes could take 25 years to succeed
  • Killian Woods
  • August 1, 2021

Land Development Agency budget will be doubled to €2.5bn

The agency has also been given extra powers to acquire state-owned land under a new ten-year ‘Housing for All’ strategy, which will be published later next month
  • Michael Brennanand
  • Daniel Murray
  • July 25, 2021

New rules will mean only social and affordable housing for public lands in Dublin and Cork

Minister for Housing wants Land Development Agency to provide 100 per cent social and affordable homes on state’s sites in main cities
  • Michael Brennan
  • June 17, 2021

Can the Land Development Agency finally solve Ireland’s housing crisis?

The government is in a hurry to have the LDA established before the Dáil goes on holidays, but one Green Party TD says it would be worth losing the party whip to make his point about what the agency should be doing. And Sinn Féin and the Social Democrats want social and affordable housing to form ‘100 per cent’ of most LDA sites in Dublin
  • Michael Brennan
  • June 13, 2021

European legal case could put LDA plans for 700 homes in Dublin 8 at risk

Land Development Agency’s proposal for St Teresa’s Gardens covered by same master plan for adjacent sites that is being challenged in European Court of Justice
  • Killian Woods
  • June 13, 2021

Land Development Agency records could be protected from public view

Records generated by LDA subsidiaries during the first six months of their existence will not be covered by transparency laws
  • Killian Woods
  • April 26, 2021

New cost-rental homes will leave tenants spending 40% of wages on rent

The homes in Dublin and Cork are being delivered by the Land Development Agency, but critics are describing them as unaffordable to most renters
  • Killian Woods
  • March 14, 2021

Analysis: How Sinn Féin will seek to undermine LDA launch with its own unofficial website

‘Non-partisan’ site will be modelled on Nama Wine Lake project which gained a considerable following and led to questions in the Dáil
  • Michael Brennan
  • February 17, 2021

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