ieExplains: What are the new rules on one-off rural housing?

Plans are set to make it easier for people to build their one-off rural homes, with housing minister James Browne saying it will ease restrictions on building across rural Ireland

The new guidelines will regulate what was previously a postcode lottery of rules where, depending on your location in the country, you were either given easy access or hamstrung by strict rules around building a one-off house.

After years of delay, the Government is set to unveil its new standardised guidelines for the building of rural housing in the coming days.

The new guidelines will regulate what was previously a postcode lottery of rules where, depending on your location in the country, you were either given easy access or hamstrung by strict rules around building a one-off house.