When asked about the one thing he would do to accelerate housing delivery if he had God-like powers, the managing director of Ballymore in Ireland Patrick Phelan said: “Service more zoned land.” The outspoken developer was speaking at last Wednesday’s annual conference of Property Industry Ireland (PII), the Ibec industry branch. Given the focus on administrative and legal planning bottlenecks in recent years, he could have been expected to say “abolish An Bord Pleanála” or “ban judicial reviews”.  Instead, he joined the many other developers, construction contractors and finance providers at the event highlighting the lack of supporting infrastructure as…

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