Would you like to live in a house built on this site?

The Planning Department in Leitrim County Council, and the elected members of Leitrim County Council, would like you to live in houses built on sites like this.

This site is in Dowra, on the Leitrim/Cavan border. Earlier this year, Leitrim County Council granted planning permission for the construction of 34 houses on this site. On April 4th, An Bord Pleanala (thankfully) overturned that permission.

Of course, this caused consternation in the chamber of Leitrim County Council, where several councillors, seemingly oblivious to recent CSO data that show that 29% of all houses in Co. Leitrim are vacant, railed against An Bord Pleanala and the local environmental group who appealed the original decision of the Council.

These same councillors have repeatedly called for the “regionalisation” of An Bord Pleanala, so that they can exert more influence regarding decisions like this.

Let me state the Green Party’s position very clearly:

No houses on floodplains

No regionalisation of An Bord Pleanala

Planning for communities, not property developers