Planning process overhaul to seek to curb serial objections and reduce judicial reviews

Attorney General is working to 'streamline' planning laws

Housing Minister Darragh O'Brien: 'We absolutely need to improve our planning legislation to ensure we can deliver homes efficiently at an affordable rate where we need them.' Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins Photos

Curbing serial objections and tackling the number of judicial reviews into projects of national importance are key parts of a major overhaul of the State’s planning laws.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Housing Minister Darragh O’Brien have accepted that it is taking far too long for major projects to clear the planning process.