Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 31 March 2015
672. Deputy Joe Costello asked the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the land that is available in the Dublin City Council area for development under the social housing strategy; the areas that have planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13297/15]
Amharc ar fhreagraA Departmental audit of the availability of local authority land was carried out in 2010, which identified approximately 600 local authority owned sites intended for residential purposes. Of these, 19 sites were in the Dublin City Council area, totalling an area of approximately 29 hectares, with 15 sites identified as suitable for development.
In conjunction with the publication of the Social Housing Strategy 2020, in November 2014, the Housing Agency, in consultation with my Department and local authorities, has commenced the process of updating the 2010 data and is developing a more extensive and detailed database and GIS map of local authority owned sites in order to support the implementation of the Strategy. The database will include all local authority owned lands and Land Aggregation Scheme lands showing their location, size, boundaries and other information. This map will be up-dated over the course of the Strategy to record the development and use of lands.
Local authorities are currently in the process of returning land data and assessment results and a full analysis of this data will commence in April 2015.
