Zoning out: Shortage of land available for housing at crux of crisis, developers warn – KillianWoods and PeterODwyer1 report.
Developers are faced with their lands being dezoned or are struggling to find new sites to develop. The problem has come at a time when the country needs to build between 300,000 to 400,000 homes in the space of a decade. Picture: Maura Hickey
Sean Reilly has decades of experience building houses in Ireland. But he has a problem. He’s running out of land, specifically land he can build on. “All the publicity is about the crisis in planning and judicial reviews, and absolutely there are problems in planning, but there's another crisis that hasn't hit yet,” Reilly said. “It's the scarcity of the raw material, which is the land.”
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