Home Builders Want Smaller Back Gardens

The Minister for Housing has been told smaller gardens would be a 'game-changer' in solving Ireland's housing crisis.

Glenveagh Properties, one of the country's largest home builders, has presented a plan allowing developers to shave more than a quarter off the distance between the back of houses. An existing 22-metre guideline from back-door to back-door dates back to the 1900s, when outhouses, fuel storage and vegetable growing were a common use of the space.In a statement, the developer says the"current framework favours unviable apartments with minimal outdoor space' and wants to 'meet the far greater demand for affordable and sustainable own door houses."

Dr Rory Hearne is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy at Maynooth, he said:"Will they pass the reduction onto homebuyers? I'd say do turkeys vote for Christmas. Of course not, a private developer is going to retain that as profit. "I think it would be naive to think that changing garden sizes are going to lead to a reduction in house prices."

How depressing! They're small enough

Total bull.

Codswallop!

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Shift away from apartments to housebuilding at centre of builder’s housing crisis planMinister for Housing Dara O’Brien has been presented a plan to overhaul existing regulations I welcome the building of housing…..but not letting them dictate policy. As it is, new build back gardens are substantially smaller than previous decades,so reducing it more makes no sense……there be no chance of ever probably extending it ,if needed!! This is funny considering EamonRyan wants everyone living their lives in a 15 minute transit zone. Seems greenparty_ie want us back in tenement housing, where pandemics can kill easily & the countryside is for the “land owning” class only Why are apartments more expensive to build, cost of land? Stricter building codes for materials? Cities all over the world have apartment blocks, Paris, Rome, NY, Amsterdam, Munich, etc. people like living in, often it’s ‘starter’ home for young working person.
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