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[Article] Planning pleas soar prior to new service levy

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08-07-2004 11:41pm

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Planning pleas soar prior to new service levy
From:The Irish Independent
Thursday, 8th July, 2004

THE number of applications for planning permission soared by 87pc in a rush prior to the arrival of local authority service charges on new homes.

Planning permission was granted for 25,401 new homes in the first quarter of 2004 compared with 13,541 in the same period last year.

Prospective home builders had until the beginning of March to apply for planning permission.

After that, they were liable to a new service levy based on floor area, which replaced a previous one-off charge. The new charges were decided on by local councils, depending on local requirements and varied according to area.

Figures released yesterday by the Central Statistics Office show that one-off housing accounted for more than one in three new homes granted planning permission. A total of 5,841 one-off homes were granted permission, of which 43pc were almost equally divided between the border areas and the west of the country.

A breakdown of the figures shows that planning permission was granted for 17,054 new houses and 8,347 new apartments between January and March. In the case of houses, this was a 79.3pc increase on the first quarter of 2003, whereas the number of apartments granted approval increased by 101.7pc.

More than half the new apartments granted permission were in the Dublin area.

Eugene Moloney

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