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Full coverage: Planning

From a blacked-out former car showroom in Dublin 6, an anonymous collective is taking a stand for artists

Dublin City Council has issued its fourth legal action against SUBSET, an artistic collective behind striking city centre murals. SUBSET believes the litigation is an attempt by the council to become the arbitrator of what constitutes acceptable art.

Tom Lyons
26th May, 2022 - 4 min read

A property investor is suing three individuals in a row over a €160m student accommodation scheme

Three people living near a student accommodation project in Goatstown, Dublin 14 – one of them head of development for a co-living company – are being sued by an investor for "wrongfully delaying" the project.

Tom Lyons
25th Jan, 2022 - 4 min read

Emigration, the pre-Independence Labourers Acts and lessons for today’s housing policy

In the decades preceding 1916, British rulers subsidised homes to dampen the demand for Irish independence – with long-lasting consequences. What the Free State did next with this social housing stock helps explain the national property psyche.

Ronan Lyons
14th Dec, 2021 - 8 min read

Norway’s renewables giant Statkraft has invested €300m in Ireland. This is just the beginning

In just three years, the Norwegian state-owned electricity group has become the fastest-growing green power company in Ireland. This is the story of its expansion in Ireland - what it owns, its financial strategy, and what is coming next.

Thomas Hubert
13th Oct, 2021 - 24 min read

After 3 years and 5 bidders, the city council has pulled plans to redevelop Dublin’s iconic Pigeon House power station

In 2018, DCC asked Ireland’s biggest developers to build a new quarter in Poolbeg on a 7-acre site that would have housed and employed thousands of people. Why have they killed the project this week?

Tom Lyons
17th Sep, 2021 - 8 min read

We need to get real about planning objections: Why housing should bring together atheists and Opus Dei

When it comes to housing, there have been far too many people expressing opinions that a proposed new development isn't perfect – and therefore should not take place.

Ronan Lyons
3rd Aug, 2021 - 7 min read

“All reasonable searches”: Information Commissioner orders Dublin City Council to restart Ronan’s building heights FOI

Ronan Group Real Estate has been locked in a two-year battle with DCC to try and uncover its thinking about development heights and densities in key parts of Dublin.

Tom Lyons
30th Jun, 2021 - 3 min read

“Totally frustrated”: Why fast-track planning schemes have turned into an “oxymoron”

Special Development Zones were designated to deliver tens of thousands of homes, and have largely failed. Now fast-track Strategic Housing Developments, too, are under threat from the increasing use of the courts by objectors, warns urban planner Tom Phillips.

T. Lyons and T. Hubert
28th May, 2021 - 7 min read

From project to planning and policy: What the battle for Belview means for industrial development

An Taisce’s challenge to Glanbia’s cheese factory raises many questions: Is litigation against individual projects the new policy battleground? How much of a facility’s supply chain should be scrutinised in the planning process? Experts offer varied answers.

Laura Roddy
24th May, 2021 - 10 min read

City Council prepares to take An Bord Pleanála to the High Court over Dublin Docklands plan

A high-stakes row over the future of the North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Strategic Development Zone planning scheme now looks set to go to court.

Tom Lyons
7th May, 2021 - 2 min read
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