Planning

What you need to know about Darragh O’Brien’s ‘radical’ new planning rules

The housing minister has overhauled the laws around planning in Ireland in a bid to mend a much maligned system: here are the eight main takeaways

Darragh O’Brien: The bill states the housing minister will have the power to appoint the first chief executive of An Coimisiún Pleanála

When the government entered office in 2020, a total redraft of the country’s planning laws was not on the cards.

The Programme for Government included plans for an appraisal of the judicial review process, which developers claim has slowed down construction of housing and renewable energy projects.

Following a 15-month review by the Office of the Attorney General, the government has compiled a new final 700-page document, the third-largest piece of legislation in the history ...