Building Control and Certificate of Compliance The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Mr. Phil Hogan, T.D., has announced that he will strengthen the building control systems. The plan to reform the building control system was devised by the Department, in conjunction with the Building Regulations Advisory Body (BRAB) and a Building Control […]

New Housing Policy Statement by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Under a Housing Policy Statement issued by the Department of the Environment Community and Local government today, the Department has announced that there should be no need for national programmes of affordable housing provision by the State. Accordingly, the Government is standing […]

Figures recently published by the DoEHLG (Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government) has indicated that 80% of all housing starts for the year 2010 were for single units (source: DoEHLG Housing Statistics – Commencement Notices). Published figures also now independently reveal the true number of available units, complete and vacant, evaluated as a proportion of […]

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