The judgment in Monkstown Road Residents’ Association & Ors v An Bord Pleanála & Ors [2022] IEHC 318 was delivered in respect of a claim to quash the decision of An Bord Pleanála (the Board) to grant planning permission for
In Friends of the Irish Environment v An Bord Pleanála [2019] IEHC 80, Simons J held that developers are precluded from using the process provided for in section 146B of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (the PDA) to
Further provisions of the Land Development Agency Act 2021 have been commenced with effect from 31 March 2022, as follows:
Key Points
The Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill (the Bill) continues its progress through the Irish legislature and has now reached the Committee stage (the third stage, before the Dáil). This third stage will see the Bill debated before
The decision in John Paul Construction Limited v Tipperary Co-Operative Creamery Limited [2022] IEHC 3 relates to an application for leave to enforce an adjudicator’s decision pursuant to the Construction Contracts Act 2013 (the Act). It further endorses the key principles of
As detailed in our earlier post, the Land Development Agency Act 2021 was signed into law on 21 July 2021 but further Ministerial order was required for its provisions to be commenced.
The first such order has been made
The Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Act 2021 (the LRD Act) sets out proposed new arrangements for “large scale residential developments” (LRDs), which will supersede the existing Strategic Housing Development (SHD) process, due to lapse on 25 February 2022. The SHD
The Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No.2) Bill was signed into law on 11 December 2021. Its main provisions are summarised in this post.
What is the Bill seeking to achieve?
This Bill has 3 primary purposes, as follows:
The construction sector has welcomed the easing of COVID-19 restrictions since April as sites have fully re-opened across the country. However, despite the surge in activity, the industry now faces new problems in the form of price inflation.
The Irish
3 September 2021 has been appointed as the commencement date for the following elements of the Affordable Housing Act 2021:
Part 2: Affordable dwelling purchase arrangements (other than subsections 2(c), (6) and (7) of section 6 which relate to housing