There are a number of references in the Draft Plan to ‘Housing for All’ (HfA), the Government’s housing policy to 2030. This provides a clear strategy to prioritise delivery of quality affordable and sustainable housing and build the pipeline for the future.
The Draft Plan also refers specifically to the LDA and, while there are no public lands identified for transfer to the LDA within the Kerry County Council area, the LDA welcomes the intention of the Council to work together with us to facilitate the assembly/acquisition, financing, and appropriate redevelopment of suitable, publicly owned, sites in the future.
Draft KCDP Objective 4-1 supports the objectives and actions of HfA. It is suggested that a reference to the LDA could be inserted into this objective as follows:
It is an objective of the Council to:
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KCDP 4-1 Support and facilitate the objectives and actions in Housing for All (HfA) to regenerate towns and villages, to tackle dereliction, vacancy, to deliver site assembly opportunities, and to promote the sustainable development of land to achieve compact growth and increased population in these centres and to engage with the Land Development Agency (LDA), where appropriate, in the identification, planning and co-ordination of strategic, publicly owned land banks to achieve compact growth, sustainable development, and urban regeneration. |