Full coverage: Planning

The housing need demand assessment artificially suppresses housing in the east of the country. It needs to go.

The environmental watchdog is taking a stronger enforcement stance on peat extraction in the midlands and wants local authorities to follow suit. New documents reveal how they are doing.

The risk of a riot is, in the grand scheme of things, minimal. The risk of being injured by a car is far greater. This is what makes Dublin City Council's car-centric response to the riots so perplexing.

Ireland's planning system is unusal for how it relies on individual planner discretion. A provision in the new planning bill would, in certain circumstances, replace planner discretion with objective rules.

An Bord Pleanála has told the local authority to remove two sites owned by Roadstone and a religious order from its residential-zoned land tax map. The Council is still in the process of reviewing and updating multiple local area plans.

Complex rules and decades of inaction in tackling unlicensed activity have left the courtroom as the last avenue for change. The environmental watchdog is now leading the charge.

Locals are pushing for redevelopment of the long-vacant site of the former Corrib Great Southern Hotel. An Bord Pleanála documents show they may be waiting for some time more.

The property developer claims a neighbour to the proposed housing project in Ashford, Co Wicklow has “no material or genuine planning concerns” but has threatened to frustrate the development if her demands for money are not met.

Fingal County Council's outgoing director of housing and community development discusses the north Dublin local authority's experience of developing quality homes and supporting community infrastructure at pace and at scale.

Dublin's proposed ban on the demolition of large buildings is intended to reduce carbon emissions. It will increase carbon emissions, increase housing costs, lengthen commutes and reduce walkability.