Altering rules on apartments backfires as projects halted

Developers withdrew planning applications to include more units after new regulations published; Dublin Chamber research suggests policy changes ‘may not have had the desired effect’

Eoghan Murphy

Constant intervention in the standards governing apartment building may be holding back development, a new analysis has found.

Successive governments have introduced a series of reforms in recent years in an attempt to make apartment building more viable but, according to Dublin Chamber, this may have had the opposite effect.

In a research paper, the chamber found that “substantial policy changes made over the last three years . . . may not have ...