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Strategic Housing Development
Fact-checking housing promises: can the State deliver 50,000 new homes a year - and if so, how?
Opposition parties are promising rapid progress, but the housing market is a long game
An Bord Pleanála reports sharp rise in legal fees with €10m paid out during ‘particularly challenging’ year
Planning appeals board also paid out €1.34m in penalties to developers for failing to process ‘fast-track’ applications
Cannon Kirk submits ‘scaled-back’ proposal for 1,020 homes in Donabate
Around the Block: Developer and project partner Lioncor reduces number of apartments in favour of houses with back gardens
Supreme Court to hear appeal over Dún Laoghaire apartments planning in case of public importance
Decision will have implications for An Bord Pleanála and some ten other challenges over strategic housing developments
‘Go-away money’: When property developers and objectors do deals
Views differ on the ethics of locals seeking or being offered payments from builders to avoid costly litigation
Glenageary 140-apartment scheme faces local opposition
Redrock plan is second attempt to build on site at Glenageary roundabout
Council set to ‘fully defend’ developer’s challenge to house-building ban on site near St Anne’s Park
Pat Crean of Marlet’s constitutional challenge centres on decision to change zoning to ‘open space’ use
Department of Education lodges objection to plan for 1,000 new homes in Dublin 13
SHD scheme at Baldoyle should not go ahead until school site is identified, says department
Planners tell Noel Smyth to scale back Dún Laoghaire build-to-rent scheme
Residents object to plan for 88 residential units at St Michael’s Hospital car park
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