ieExplains: Will the new national planning framework really help resolve the housing crisis?

ieExplains: Will the new national planning framework really help resolve the housing crisis?

Housing minister James Browne at the site of 50 new ClĂşid social homes under construction in Clonard, Co Wexford. Picture: CorporatePhotographersDublin.ie

The Government on Tuesday approved the long-awaited national planning framework.

This new policy will set in stone revised housing targets and allow local authorities to reopen their local development plans and rezone hundreds of hectares of land for homes.

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