Planning reforms could block residents’ groups from legal action against housing developments
He was commenting on the basis of reports on Monday in The Irish Times setting out aspects of Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien’s proposed reform of the planning system, and stressed he had yet to see any official detail.
The alliance believes strategic planning policies designed to facilitate housing provision had brought about a “hornets’ nest” of judicial reviews, the High Court challenges that would be rendered unavailable to housing associations under Mr O’Brien’s draft laws. In its analysis of data earlier this year, the alliance said the trigger for increasing judicial reviews was the “extraordinary number” of SHD applications which were material contraventions of their area development plans.
“It seems like what this is trying to do is to encourage individuals to feel more exposed to costs,” he said.
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