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Editorial - Business Post: Law Society offers solution to historic planning issues in Planning Bill

Monday, 26 February 2024

Writing in the Business Post online on Saturday, 24 February (also published in print on Sunday, 25 February), ByrneWallace LLP Partner and Chair of Property Michael Walsh, who is member and former chair of the Law Society’s Conveyancing Committee, and Professional Support Lawyer Judith Cryan, discuss how the Planning and Development Bill 2023 currently fails to deal with historic planning breaches that often blight real estate related transactions.

The Law Society has proposed to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage a pragmatic solution to overcome the conveyancing difficulties and delays arising from historic planning breaches. This calls for legal recognition of a new class of ‘established non-conforming development’ that would not be a blight on title to the property. This proposed solution has not yet been included in the Bill, but there is still time and a compelling case to adopt it.

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