Call to ensure developers of large-scale housing projects not obtaining planning permission to turn a profit

Planners have called for local authorities to be given additional powers to ensure that the developers of large-scale housing projects are not merely obtaining planning permission for the purpose of 'flipping' the sites and turning a profit.

The Irish Planning Insitute (IPI) also told the Dáil's Housing Committee that the responsibility for deciding on large-scale housing and apartment developments should be restored to local authorities and not be carried out by An Bord Pleanála.