Quasi 30.000 unità abitative in grandi sviluppi affrontano obiezioni, afferma l’organo del settore
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2025/01/27/almost-30000-housing-units-in-large-developments-face-objections-claims-industry-body/
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The Construction Industry Federation (CIF), the representative group for the industry, estimates that more than 16,000 units are subject to objections to the planning authority, and a further 13,000 are subject to judicial review.
These are developments of more than 100 units each. CIF figures do not include smaller developments under 100 units.
CIF director of housing and planning Conor O’Connell said the notion that sufficient numbers of construction workers are not present to build 50,000 housing units a year is “nonsense”, and that the industry doubled its housebuilding capacity from 2016 to 2019 – and then doubled it again from 2019 to 2023.
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Imagine this, lads: 30 000 housing units are being held hostage by all sorts of legal shenanigans, while the go-to complaint on Reddit is banning AirBnB or importing more builders to saturate the market. The industry says it has everything it needs save for the right to build stuff for us. Again, the MAIN solution seems to be just building more. We need, it seems, to remove all possible hurdles there, including the redundant and ridiculous system of objections, to ensure stuff gets built – first and foremost – instead of finding the enemy within by attacking the immigrants / owners / renters / the Pope / our repitilian overlords from Nibiru.
I just dont see too many politicians doing away with the system of objections, when their objections to local developments are a material part of what makes people vote for them to begin with. I would be amazed if there is a single government minister that hasnt objected to a housing development at some point
And I suspect if a referendum were called tomorrow on the issue of amending property rights, changing the projection system, giving authorities more control over planning et cetera….. It would fail.
People just don’t trust the government.
Hopefully with the slower construction pace many of the shoddy examples of Celtic Tiger building won’t occur again.
The fallout from the building boom will end up costing the taxpayer billions.
In my own apartment building which was built during the boom there are multiple issues around fire certification and absolutely no one wants to put their name to paper in case something goes wrong down the road. It’s priceless.
Also there would be fewer housing estates thrown up shoddily in areas with poor road access or services.
Construction and special interest groups doing the hard work in trying to insinuate that all forms of objections are objections for the sake of it.
I’d like to see them highlight the number of upheld objections.
We’re moving back to the shit show of the 80s into the 90s when they just build houses upon houses without a single bit of supporting infrastructure, no transport or facilities.
That went well didn’t it.
>estimates that more than 16,000 units are subject to objections to the planning authority
What does that even mean? All planning applications are subject to observations (‘objections’) in our system, that’s not supposed to delay them (in theory), that’s just part of the process. Are they just saying that they’ve 16,000 units going for planning at this stage?
We should be refusing planning for a lot of new builds. The new regulations are a joke, should be rolled back.
There are so many shoddy estates being thrown up in bad areas like floodplains or on arterial roads that are already over traffic capacity. Instead of us having a national planner who can plan out communities that aren’t endless sprawls of estates with 0 amenities, services places to live, we have a scattergun approach and throw up shit wherever.
There’s no sense of community in these new builds because they’re not designed to be communities. We don’t need to accelerate societal decay.
By ‘objections’ do they mean the third party observations that practically every development gets, or the appeals and judicial reviews that actually hold up development?
CIF is calling for removal of RPZ and Increased residential zoned land. The CIF also rejected the proposed residential zoned land tax last year. They were one of the biggest supporters of the SHD legislation which led to the explosion in judicial reviews.
The CIF is a private lobby group. They don’t care about solving the housing crisis or the Irish public. They simply exist to protect the interests of their members.