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# vacant sites

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
# underutilised
Housing minister says 'scourge' of vacant sites across Ireland is underutilised
O’Brien said that he had written to the Archbishop of Dublin about buying unused church land.
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Jun 22nd 2022, 2:50 PM
All time
# 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.
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May 21st 2020, 3:25 PM
# vacant sites
Only 26 sites told to pay vacant site levy in Dublin city so far this year
Minister Eoghan Murphy has recently claimed that evidence so far of development shows the vacant site levy is working.
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Jun 23rd 2019, 8:15 AM
# building and property
As it plots an expansion, the Digital Hub has been ordered to pay up for sitting on vacant land
The State agency has to pay a levy of nearly €100,000 this year – and that figure’s due to rise.
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Feb 15th 2019, 9:49 AM
# 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.
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Jan 2nd 2019, 7:00 AM
# vacant sites
Dunnes Stores is fighting to keep a large south Dublin site off the land-hoarders list
The retailer faces thousands of euro in levies if the 5,000 sq m plot is declared a vacant site.
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Mar 28th 2018, 3:01 PM
# land hoarders
Why councils will soon be fining themselves for owning vacant housing sites
The vacant sites levy was introduced to free up land for homes.
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Mar 1st 2018, 2:36 PM
# Housing
Dozens of developers are fighting to keep their lands off the vacant sites list
The measure was set up to stop land hoarding and free up sites for housing.
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Feb 11th 2018, 8:00 AM
# vacant sites
The State is sitting on nearly 100 empty sites as housing groups cry out for land
The government spent almost €1m on maintaining and guarding vacant properties last year.
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Feb 8th 2018, 2:54 PM
# building and property
Dozens of developers are fighting to keep their lands off the vacant sites list
The measure was set up to stop land hoarding and free up sites for housing.
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Feb 8th 2018, 2:32 PM
# vacant sites
Increase recorded in number of vacant commercial properties
Ballybofey in Donegal has the highest vacancy rate in the country, while Greystones in Wicklow has the lowest.
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Oct 8th 2013, 10:08 AM
# Meet the mayor
Lord Mayor: Developers hanging on to prime Dublin sites should face penalties
Oisín Quinn has been setting out his aims for his term in office in a wide-ranging interview. On a personal front, his priorities include trying to accommodate a young family and small dog in the garden-less Mansion House…
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Jul 28th 2013, 8:00 AM
Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things to know by 9am: Mullingar assault victim dies, warnings of black ice on roads, how former taoisigh feel the pinch… and a hint for finding a lost wedding ring…
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Jan 2nd 2012, 8:47 AM
# vacant sites
Vacant sites "should be used for community projects"
The Irish Planning Institute says that derelict or vacant sites should be used for low-cost community projects – instead of being “just turned into car parks”.
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Jan 2nd 2012, 8:30 AM