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01/06/2007
Rural planning applications drop by 90%
The number of successful rural planning applications in Northern Ireland has dropped by 90% due to restrictions on ribbon development.
The Planning Policy Statement 14 (PPS14) has slashed the number of single properties in the countryside from around 5,000 to 500.
Northern Ireland Assembly member Patsy McGlone said the rule designed to protect green belts meant only a fraction of outlining planning applications were being approved.
“We are talking here about people who want to live where they were brought up and are being denied that chance because of PPS14,” he said.
“Where we have less supply and the potential for increased demand in towns and villages then prices will go up.
“On the one hand we have one department, the Department for Social Development, saying housing affordability is a major issue and yet we have the Department for Regional Development which is implementing a policy which is one of the root causes.”
The government last year announced that almost all new plans for single rural dwellings would not be considered.
PPS14 was introduced in March last year and there have been 407 replacement dwellings and less than 100 other categories like farm buildings since. This is compared to 5,655 the year before the ministerial order was brought in.
(JM/KMcA)
The Planning Policy Statement 14 (PPS14) has slashed the number of single properties in the countryside from around 5,000 to 500.
Northern Ireland Assembly member Patsy McGlone said the rule designed to protect green belts meant only a fraction of outlining planning applications were being approved.
“We are talking here about people who want to live where they were brought up and are being denied that chance because of PPS14,” he said.
“Where we have less supply and the potential for increased demand in towns and villages then prices will go up.
“On the one hand we have one department, the Department for Social Development, saying housing affordability is a major issue and yet we have the Department for Regional Development which is implementing a policy which is one of the root causes.”
The government last year announced that almost all new plans for single rural dwellings would not be considered.
PPS14 was introduced in March last year and there have been 407 replacement dwellings and less than 100 other categories like farm buildings since. This is compared to 5,655 the year before the ministerial order was brought in.
(JM/KMcA)
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