Eoin Ó Broin
Question:100. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when he plans to publish his Department’s new rural housing planning guidelines. [35582/20]
View answerWednesday, 11 November 2020
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The 2005 Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines are framed in the context of the National Spatial Strategy (NSS) 2002. Given the superseding of the NSS by the National Planning Framework in 2018, together with the need to address the potential implications of the 2013 European Court of Justice ruling in the "Flemish Decree" case, there is now merit in updating the Sustainable Rural Housing Guidelines in a broader rural development and settlement context. My Department has commenced scoping this work and I expect a draft by the end of this year.