Niamh Towey
Housing Reporter at Irish Times
Assistant News Editor @IrishTimes. Have a story? Email me niamh.towey@irishtimes(dot)com.
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6 days ago |
irishtimes.com | Niamh Towey
Short-term letting platforms such as Airbnb and Booking.com could face fines of millions of euros under new regulations aimed at freeing up properties for long-term housing requirements. The legislation, the General Scheme of the Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill, was published on Thursday and outlines plans for a new register for all short-term lets (SLTs) in Ireland.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Niamh Towey
The number of homes available to rent on the State’s main social housing support scheme has fallen again, according to a new report. There were only 41 properties available to rent within the discretionary rate of the Housing Assistance Payment (HAP) scheme across the country over the three-day period surveyed by the Simon Communities of Ireland in March. This is a decrease of five properties (down 11 per cent) since December 2024.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Niamh Towey
Minister for Housing James Browne hopes to usher through sweeping changes to Ireland’s planning laws in the coming weeks and months. The approval of a revised National Planning Framework by Government last week, alongside the upcoming commencement of the new Planning and Development Act, as well as the rebranding of An Bord Pleanála to An Comisiún Pleanála are changes he is keen to sell. You’re approaching three months in office now.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Niamh Towey
Anthony Neville has spent more than 20 years trying to secure planning permission for 345 new homes on a site he bought in Co Kildare in 2004. The site sits on Dublin’s commuter belt. It is situated 300 metres from the Sallins railway station, which has 30 trains a day in and out of Dublin’s city centre – a 30-minute journey. He has the staff, the finance and the capacity to go ahead with the build, but there is one major problem. “The planning history on it is just unbelievable,” Neville says.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Niamh Towey
Local authorities will be instructed to reopen their county development plans and rezone more land for residential use by the end of the year, Minister for Housing James Browne has said. The revised National Planning Framework was approved by the Government on Tuesday, allowing it to progress through the Dáil and Seanad.
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