The State’s Land Development Agency (LDA) is to advance plans for more than 700 homes at St Teresa’s Gardens in Dolphin’s Barn, a decade after Dublin City Council’s scheme for the dilapidated 1950s flat complex collapsed. The LDA said it would work with the council to “facilitate the delivery of public housing on the site”. ResistedSome city councillors have resisted the involvement of the LDA in developing council land, with parties on the left adamant the council should develop its own land. An agreement in relation to the development of the site “is the sole preserve of the elected members”, it said. Mr O’Brien has this week issued new figures indicating that the average cost of homes approved for construction on city council lands in the last two years was just under €384,000.

Source: The Irish Times December 04, 2020 01:00 UTC