Government should be open to new thinking and new initiatives which will help address the current chronic housing shortage, says Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
The group said that such a directive to develop housing along these lines could “unlock the potential to deliver twice as many homes on the same locations”. It said it would allow for densities in residential areas such as those found in Phibsborough, Portobello and Ranelagh in Dublin and Turners Cross in Cork, all of which were developed before the current guidelines were introduced
It argues the current market centres on high-rise, high-cost build-to-rent schemes, which results in low-density enclaves of houses and high-density enclaves of apartments “as opposed to sustainable integrated neighbourhoods and communities”.
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