The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 provides for new streamlined arrangements to enable planning applications for strategic housing developments, of 100 housing units or more or student accommodation developments of 200 bed spaces or more, to be made directly to An Bord Pleanála (the Board) for determination.
From the time that the new arrangements came into operation in July 2017 up until 31 March 2018, the Board received 47 valid pre-application consultation requests in respect of which 39 opinions have already issued. The Board has subsequently received 19 planning applications and has issued decisions in respect of 12 cases to date.
The following table sets out the statistics requested in relation to Strategic Housing Developments up to 31 March 2018:
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Number of SHD planning applications made to An Bord Pleanála
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19
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The number of these applications that have been declared invalid
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0
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The number of applications that have been successful
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9*
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The number of applications that have been refused
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3
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The average processing time for forming a pre-planning opinion
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c. 8 weeks
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The average time for final decisions on planning applications
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c. 14 weeks
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* 1 decision was granted in part.
