Developer Michael O'Flynn  blames ‘prescriptive’ planning for impacting housing crisis

Collaboration and cooperation between public and private sector called for by Housing Commission member,  developer Michael O'Flynn

Michael O'Flynn, Chief Executive, O'Flynn Group 

ONE of the country’s most prominent developers has called for collaboration and cooperation between the private and public sectors to address the deepening housing crisis, while saying planning laws and guidelines have become “more and more prescriptive, that’s giving more and more opportunity to the courts and that’s quite concerning - it’s become an industry all of its own.” 

The comments, made by developer Michael O’Flynn and a member of the Housing Commission at a gathering of IPAV estate agents in Cork prior to this week’s announcement of changes to An Bord Pleanala and the planning process to be drafted into law next year.