Appeals process is ‘slowing down housing builds’, says industry

The Irish planning system has come in for criticism at the Fit Out Expo 2019 - but An Bord Pleanála says banking, marketing and mortgages are to blame, and that many people simply don’t want to buy apartments

Criticism of the Irish planning system and the way in which it can affect the supply of housing was voiced by speakers at the Fit Out Expo 2019 in Dublin recently.

Hazel Jones, strategic planning director at Bartra Capital Properties, said all 27 of the projects that Bartra had put into the planning system over the past few years had been objected to, notwithstanding the fact that in all cases the developments were ...