A North West Junior Minister says plans to overhaul the planning regulations should have a very positive impact on the housing crisis that is gripping the counties of Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal at present.

The Tánaiste told a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last night that the changes represents a shift away from planning practices that have held rural communities back for far too long.


Simon Harris is promising an easing of planning laws will make it easier for families to build homes in the countryside adding that anyone with a social or economic need to live in a rural area will have a reasonable expectation of getting planning permission.

Minister of State Frank Feighan says the changes will make it easier for people to get planning permission

A North West Junior Minister says plans to overhaul the planning regulations should have a very positive impact on the housing crisis that is gripping the counties of Sligo, Leitrim and Donegal at present.
The T&aacute;naiste told a Fine Gael parliamentary party meeting last night that the changes represents a shift away from planning practices that have held rural communities back for far too long.
 Simon Harris is promising an easing of planning laws will make it easier for families to build homes in the countryside adding that anyone with a social or economic need to live in a rural area will have a reasonable expectation of getting planning permission.
Minister of State Frank Feighan says the changes will make it easier for people to get planning permission

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