Planning inconsistencies ‘wasting resources’

PLANNING inconsistencies are causing extra financial hardship for those waiting to move into new homes, architects claimed yesterday.

Tony Reddy, president of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, said considerable variations in the way local authorities interpreted the planning legislation were “wasting the resources of ordinary people who have lodged planning applications as well as those of the local authorities themselves”.

Mr Reddy said different criteria were being set for basic requirements such as site notices and advertisements of planning applications in newspapers. Examples included: