News
News about the DDPA and our activities.
09-09-21
DDPA in front of the Oireachtas Housing Committee
The DDPA spoke to the Oireachtas Housing Committee today on issues around the Large Scale Residential Development bill that is proposed to succeed the SHD legislation.
A Irish Independent article on the meeting today can be found here.
12-07-21
Legal action over housing to persist unless ‘normal’ planning system restored - Irish Times
In a recent article in the Irish Times (12th July) our Chair, Robin Mandal, writes about the dysfunction of Strategic Housing Development system and how it inhibits the construction of new housing.
The article can be read in full here.
07-07-21
RTE Prime Time report on SHDs, featuring the DDPA.
We recently contributed to an RTE Prime Time report on Strategic Housing Developments. Our chair Robin Mandal was interviewed for this, as well as several members of the DDPA.
The written piece that accompanies the report can be read here.
26-06-21
Planning process and judicial review - Irish Times
In a recently published letter in the Irish Times (26th June), Robin Mandal writes about how the Strategic Housing Development system has taken democratic participation away from citizens and forces them into Judicial Reviews to have their voice heard.
This letter can be read in full here.
18-03-21
SHD housing planning stalls house building - Irish Times
Robin Mandal recently published a letter in the Irish Times of March 18th on how the Strategic Housing Development system can lead to delays in the delivery of homes.
This letter can be read in full here.
2021
24-06-20
We are about to build the wrong homes in the wrong places at the wrong price - Irish Times
This article in the Irish Times started the process that led to the creation of the Dublin Democratic Planning Alliance
This article can be read in full here.
