Strategic Housing Developments SHDs

horsebox7

Is the SHD model for building 100 or more residential units working whereby the developer can apply directly to an bord pleanala fof permission without going to the local plannjng authority. It us supposed to take 16 weeks. In reality is this targeg being met? Whaf are pros and cons of SHDs compared to the traditional approach?

Thanks

Robbo

Moved to Construction & Planning as there isn't a Legal Discussion element vented in the OP

woohoo!!!

It has imposed extensive pre planning requirements on the applicant. If not up to scratch they're told to go away, work on x, y and z. There's no time limit on this. Once it's up to scratch, then 16 weeks to decide. The two I'm somewhat familiar with, one took over a year, the other took a few months before Bord Pleanala would accept a planning application, or one that was up to scratch. So the applicant really needs to hire the right expertise in a whole range of fields. The advantage with applying to Bord Pleanala is that they're more used to than a local authority of dealing with very complex applications.

horsebox7

Thanks for your reply.

Do you think the local planning authority end up doing a substantial amount of the work that they could have spent simply processing the application in the conventional traditional way?

woohoo!!!

A lot of work, sure but still less than if the ones having to decide. Plus cuts out a lot of crap that the Council has to accept, and then try and fix through convoluted further information requests.

poker--addict

Is there any transparency in these processes?

I am finding it almost impossible to find information, plans, commencement dates...