New system fast-tracks approval for new housing developments, says planning chief
The director of planning at An Bord Pleanála says the organisation is ‘very pro-density’
The introduction of the fast-track planning system known as Strategic Housing Developments has accelerated the planning approval of new housing developments.
Such SHD planning applications, which cater for developments of more than 100 dwellings, take only 30 weeks to process through the planning system. That compares with the period 2005 to 2015 when it took more than ...
