Local councils face penalties for slow planning decisions

New statutory deadlines for planning decisions and the penalties associated with missing those deadlines will be devised in the coming weeks as part of major new planning legislation, an Oireachtas Committee has heard.

The Oireachtas Committee on Housing was holding a session with Department of Health officials on the Draft Planning and Development Bill, which was published by Darragh O’Brien, the Minister for Housing, earlier this month, and will involve the most substantial overhaul of ...