Eircodes wanted at planning stage

Eircodes may need to be issued to all potential new dwellings from the moment a planning application is submitted for them even if they are not subsequently built.

The Central Statistics Office has recommended assigning the post codes from the very start in order to make tracking and counting of new homes more accurate.

The recommendation is one of several made by the CSO as it published its first quarterly new dwellings completion statistics compiled under a new counting method that shows figures previously published by the Department of Housing were substantially over-stated.