The judgment in Monkstown Road Residents’ Association & Ors v An Bord Pleanála & Ors [2022] IEHC 318 was delivered in respect of a claim to quash the decision of An Bord Pleanála (the Board) to grant planning permission for a strategic housing development in Monkstown. The Court ruled in favour of the Residents’
The Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Act 2021 (the LRD Act) sets out proposed new arrangements for “large scale residential developments” (LRDs), which will supersede the existing Strategic Housing Development (SHD) process, due to lapse on 25 February 2022. The SHD process was introduced in 2016, with the
Part 6 of the Affordable Housing Act 2021 will introduce important changes to Part V of the Planning and Development Act 2000, which is the mechanism which allows local authorities to obtain a certain percentage of land zoned for housing at existing use value as opposed to development value.
These changes are as follows: