The Cabinet signed off on new guidelines for apartment building brought by Minister James Browne on Tuesday.

The new guidelines reduce the minimum size of studio apartments from 37 square metres to 32 square metres.

The Housing Minister is bringing proposed changes to apartment building guidelines that will, among other things, reduce the minimum size of units.

An Bord Pleanála said the proposed development would be 'visually obtrusive' from a wide range of viewpoints in the city.

The ruling represents a setback for building firm O’Flynn Construction

The development at Woodbrook, which will have access to new Dart station, will include 102 one-bed and 226 two-bed homes

The number of single dwellings built was 5,367, 2.2 per cent lower than in 2023.

That is down slightly from October 2024 when prices increased by 9.7 per cent.

Cairn Homes will begin construction of the 608-unit apartment scheme

Apartment completions fell 7.2 per cent in the 12 months to Q3 2024, to 3,096, while single dwellings were down 5.3 per cent to 1,354 in Q3 2024.

An Bord Pleanála did not properly apply the law in considering how a proposed apartment scheme would impacts view to and from the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin

A previous attempt to secure planning permission for the project was quashed by order of the High Court two years ago.

The proposed Bluebell Waterways development will be located along the Grand Canal in Dublin 12

The proposed development is located at Dalguise, Monkstown Road, Monkstown, Co Dublin

Gordon Lyons, Caoimhe Archibald and Andrew Muir met on Tuesday to discuss issues affecting the apartments in Belfast.

A claim by owners of the Victoria Square apartments was struck out because it fell outside a six-year statutory time limit for taking cases.

The judge found a planned roofed courtyard did not constitute the required 'open space'

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien is working on the legislation as a matter of ‘priority’