Housing has been front and centre this week with the Cabinet passing the Planning and Development Bill on Tuesday with a view to alleviating pressure on the planning system while 300 students marched in Dublin city centre on Wednesday to call for increased investment in student accommodation.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he wanted to reduce the number of vexatious judicial reviews, adding that faster decisions and more timely reviews would flow from the reforms. "In 2021 there was 38,314 planning applications made and 88.5% were granted planning permissions. Can we really turn around and say that NIMBYs are blocking housing? When that's the stat," Mr Lawton told Katie Hannon on Upfront: The Podcast this week.We need your consent to load this rte-player contentWe use rte-player to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.
"Since the late 1990s we see the growth of the tech economy. Within cities that are experiencing growth in those areas we also see a crisis in terms of housing. Housing starts to be dictated largely by people working in those industries."What housing models work elsewhere?