However, nimbyism is definitely a thing. I work in planning, and get calls from residents groups trying to oppose residential developments.
One group came to me with a list of issues with an SHD in a wealthy suburb of Dublin. I helped them to present the issues to ABP, and the permission was rejected. The developer then changed the design to address the residents’ comments, and the SHD got permission. The residents then tried to appeal it on a range of different points, at which time I decided no longer to remain involved in the case. Obviously the residents weren’t bothered about the design of the development, they just didn’t want *any* development.
They trot out the “only 5.6% of planning permissions in 2021 were appealed” line, without saying just how many houses those 2,076 applications refer to.
Did a nimby write this?
It really is just a posh tabloid isn’t it?
If the Irish Times was around during the Famine they’d be telling us it wasn’t the Brits’ fault
I live in a housing estate where I rent. It’s a combination of houses + apartments. There is a huge amount of land where developers have started to build. They wanted to build 1200 units total. I think this is great as I might finally be able to buy something.
The residents keep complaining that there are too many units and too many apartments (including people who currently live in apartments). The builders are gradually reducing the number of units to appease the complaining residents, its now just under 1000.
Its easy for residents to complain when they already own a property. Everyone else can fuck off can we?
It’s not nimbyism if myself and two neighbours object to the development because the developer wouldn’t pay us 225k each in go away money.
It is one of them yes. The author of this article is named Lorcan Sirr
>**The rental market – and especially an efficient rental market – is increasingly important not just to house people, but also for the broader economy. Too much home-ownership (above 70%) is not good for an economy like Ireland’s, as among other things it diverts too much money into a volatile investment,** and away from other potentially more productive activities.
Having the security of owning your own home is not a volatile investment. Bare in mind that the article in my link is from 2014 so it’s a number of years old.
>**Ireland also needs new types of landlords** to cater for people who wish to rent long-term in professionally developed and managed units (including family units) in which there’s no danger of being asked to leave because, for example, a family member wants to use the accommodation (see next point). **Although there is the welcome emergence of such landlords here like Kennedy Wilson and Capreit, they are not enough.**
He seems big on foreign investment funds coming here. But that doesn’t make it any easier for people because as you all may know those apartments are very expensive and are not helping the situation by buying up bulk apartments and houses that could be sold to familes.
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Such dysfunction. We’re a shambles.
I can’t read the article, it’s paywalled.
However, nimbyism is definitely a thing. I work in planning, and get calls from residents groups trying to oppose residential developments.
One group came to me with a list of issues with an SHD in a wealthy suburb of Dublin. I helped them to present the issues to ABP, and the permission was rejected. The developer then changed the design to address the residents’ comments, and the SHD got permission. The residents then tried to appeal it on a range of different points, at which time I decided no longer to remain involved in the case. Obviously the residents weren’t bothered about the design of the development, they just didn’t want *any* development.
They trot out the “only 5.6% of planning permissions in 2021 were appealed” line, without saying just how many houses those 2,076 applications refer to.
Did a nimby write this?
It really is just a posh tabloid isn’t it?
If the Irish Times was around during the Famine they’d be telling us it wasn’t the Brits’ fault
I live in a housing estate where I rent. It’s a combination of houses + apartments. There is a huge amount of land where developers have started to build. They wanted to build 1200 units total. I think this is great as I might finally be able to buy something.
The residents keep complaining that there are too many units and too many apartments (including people who currently live in apartments). The builders are gradually reducing the number of units to appease the complaining residents, its now just under 1000.
Its easy for residents to complain when they already own a property. Everyone else can fuck off can we?
It’s not nimbyism if myself and two neighbours object to the development because the developer wouldn’t pay us 225k each in go away money.
It is one of them yes. The author of this article is named Lorcan Sirr
>**The rental market – and especially an efficient rental market – is increasingly important not just to house people, but also for the broader economy. Too much home-ownership (above 70%) is not good for an economy like Ireland’s, as among other things it diverts too much money into a volatile investment,** and away from other potentially more productive activities.
Having the security of owning your own home is not a volatile investment. Bare in mind that the article in my link is from 2014 so it’s a number of years old.
>**Ireland also needs new types of landlords** to cater for people who wish to rent long-term in professionally developed and managed units (including family units) in which there’s no danger of being asked to leave because, for example, a family member wants to use the accommodation (see next point). **Although there is the welcome emergence of such landlords here like Kennedy Wilson and Capreit, they are not enough.**
He seems big on foreign investment funds coming here. But that doesn’t make it any easier for people because as you all may know those apartments are very expensive and are not helping the situation by buying up bulk apartments and houses that could be sold to familes.
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/irish-rental-market-1752206-Oct2014/