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# vacant site levy

Last year
2022
# vacant sites
Council pursues major developer for quarter of a million euro over undeveloped Kilkenny site
The site is earmarked for 147 homes.
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Aug 26th 2022, 12:05 AM
All time
# the good information project
Should Ireland's planning system take some of the blame for the housing crisis?
A European Commission report shows a 96% correlation between the number of planning permission grants and the number of homes completed two years later.
CJ McKinney examines whether the country's planning laws need reform.
A European Commission report shows a 96% correlation between the number of planning permission grants and the number of homes completed two years later.
But, there's a different outcome for so-called strategic housing developments.
People split on mortgage lending rules but strongly opposed to limits on inheritance from parents
What is an 'affordable home'? Most people put the price at between €200,000 and €299,000
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Jul 5th 2021, 12:05 AM
# vacant site levy
The tax to try prevent property owners from hoarding land was only collected by 1 in 8 councils last year
There was over €2 million outstanding due to councils under the vacant site levy at the beginning of this year.
19.8k
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May 21st 2020, 3:25 PM
# Pay Up
Here's how many sites there are where its owners will have to pay the vacant site levy
Site owners will be eligible to pay up to 7% of its value if the local authority has placed it on the vacant sites register.
36.7k
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Jan 2nd 2019, 7:00 AM