80% of planning applications for strategic housing developments approved last year

Chair of An Bord Pleanála, Dave Walsh, is expected to tell the committee that those approvals will facilitate more than 20,800 residential units, three-quarters of which were for apartments. File Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

Ireland’s national planning body granted approval for just under four in five applications for strategic housing developments in 2020.

An Bord Pleanála is set to tell the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday that of 126 such applications in 2020, 98 were granted approval.