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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, January 13, 2025
QUESTION NO. 2
QUESTION: Councillor L. Dunne
To ask the Chief Executive to provide the total number of residential units built across the county since the introduction of the Strategic Housing Development process in 2017, including a detailed breakdown in table format of units delivered within each Local Electoral Area?
REPLY:
The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 introduced a new type of planning application known as Strategic Housing Development (SHD). SHDs applied to all planning applications of 100 or more housing units and 200 or more student accommodation bed spaces. The Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 Commencement of Certain Provisions) (No. 3) Order 2017 commenced the SHD process with an effective date of 3rd July 2017.
SHD applications were made directly to An Bord Pleanala. The SHD system was introduced for a defined timeline and has since been replaced by the Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) applications which are made to the Local Authority in the first instance. The transition from SHD to the LRD process began on 17th December 2021.
The total number of residential units built across the county since the introduction of the Strategic Housing Development process in 2017, including a detailed breakdown of units delivered within each Local Electoral Area is shown below.
Part 8 figures are collected separately and are not included in these figures. Where local authority housing went through a non-Part 8 planning application process e.g. Kilcarbery (SHD), Killinarden (LRD), the figures are included.