Housing
Regulator contacts planning body over fire safety appeals
The Office of the Planning Regulator has reached out to An Bord Pleanála over the very high rate of successful appeals by developers to overturn fire safety cert conditions
The Office of the Planning Regulator (OPR) has contacted An Bord Pleanála over its handling of fire safety certificate appeals after the Business Post revealed that developers have been successful in amending or overturning conditions in nearly 90 per cent of cases.
The OPR told Eoin Ó Broin, the Sinn Féin spokesman on housing, that the issue is “important”, and that it had “raised the issue with An Bord Pleanála and expect to receive information ...