Ireland’s planning framework ‘fundamentally flawed’, says Savills
Ireland’s National Planning Framework is “fundamentally flawed” and will exaccerbate the housing crisis, Savills Ireland has said.
According to the Residential Land Supply Study 2022, published today, the residential housing targets and guidelines set out in the document will reduce the land available for housing and other development.
John Ring, director of research at Savills Ireland, said: “Ireland’s residential housing market is already fraught with challenges and problems, but if we can’t get things right at a national level, then the trickle-down effect of these mistakes mean we are destined to fail no matter what resolutions we may find to the building and development issues.”
Ireland’s National Planning Framework is “fundamentally flawed” and will exaccerbate the housing crisis, Savills Ireland has said.
According to the Residential Land Supply Study 2022, published today, the residential housing targets and guidelines set out in the document will reduce the land available for housing and other development.
John Ring, director of research at Savills Ireland, said: “Ireland’s residential housing market is already fraught with challenges and problems, but if we can’t get things right at a national level, then the trickle-down effect of these mistakes mean we are destined to fail no matter what resolutions we may find to the building and development issues.”
He added that the reduction in the supply of zoned residential land, a focus on capping rather than boosting housing supply, an attempt to divert growth away from Dublin, along with a rigidity around development sites, would exacerbate a “lost decade of housing delivery”.
While the focus on compact urban development at the heart of this strategy was “a laudable and necessary objective if we are to achieve our climate change objectives”, Ring added that the goals should be “achievable rather than aspirational.”
“We are producing just four homes per 1,000 people in Dublin, less than half of the nine per 1,000 recorded going back 25 years ago and just a quarter of the output of 2006,” Ring said. “We need to implement stretch targets at this time to reflect the urgency of the situation, rather than limiting our ambitions to goals that are likely to fail.”
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