Call to ‘streamline’ planning process

There is enough land zoned and potentially available in Dublin to provide housing for 269,000 people, although the planning permission system is acting as a constraint on the number of units being released on the market.

According to a report commissioned by the Society of Chartered Surveyors in Ireland, there is 2,233 hectares of land zoned across the capital’s four main local authorities, which could supply housing units for 269,000 people.

The report found that there is a minimum requirement for 35,000 houses in Dublin over the next four years, but only 26,000 planning permissions have been granted for that timeframe.