Dublin residents resisting plans for large-scale housing
Residents groups all over Dublin are resisting plans for large-scale housing. But developers say that the increased height and housing density involved is part of government policy.
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There are currently 18 applications before An Bord Pleanála for nearly 5,000 housing units in Dublin.
They are made under the Strategic Housing Development scheme which involves large-scale developments going straight to the board and bypassing local authorities.
This coupled with revised planning policies allowing greater density and height and an emphasis on so-called brownfield sites in urban areas has meant a new scale of housing to which many Dublin residents are not accustomed.