Housing

Bartra complains to Housing Minister over Dublin council’s rate of planning refusals

The property developer also accused the planning regulator of ‘comparing apples with oranges’ after it pointed out that South Dublin County Council had approved 88% of all planning applications last year

Mike Flannery, chief executive of Bartra Capital: the company told the government that ‘overly prescriptive’ planning rules were slowing residential development. Picture: Fergal Phillips