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  2. Squatting in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Ireland on map in dark green. Squatting in the Republic of Ireland is the occupation of unused land or derelict buildings without the permission of the owner. In the 1960s, the Dublin Housing Action Committee highlighted the housing crisis by squatting buildings. From the 1990s onwards there have been occasional political squats in Cork and ...

  3. Planning permission - Wikipedia

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    House building permits, for example, are subject to building codes. There is also a "plan check" (PLCK) to check compliance with plans for the area, if any. [3] For example, one cannot obtain permission to build a nightclub in an area where it is inappropriate such as a high-density suburb. [4] [5] The criteria for planning permission are a ...

  4. Article 4 direction - Wikipedia

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    An Article 4 direction is made by a local planning authority in the United Kingdom and exceptionally may be subject to intervention by the government. It serves to restrict permitted development rights, which means that a lot of the things people do to their land or houses without planning permission and often take for granted, are brought into the realms of planning consent.

  5. Town and Country Planning Act 1947 - Wikipedia

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    The act established that planning permission was required for land development; ownership alone no longer conferred the right to develop the land. [2] To control this, the Act reorganised the planning system from the 1,400 existing planning authorities to 145 (formed from county and borough councils), and required them all to prepare a comprehensive development plan.

  6. Mahon Tribunal - Wikipedia

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    The Tribunal of Inquiry into Certain Planning Matters and Payments, [1] commonly known as the Mahon Tribunal after the name of its last chairman, was a public inquiry in Ireland established by Dáil Éireann in 1997 to investigate allegations of corrupt payments to politicians regarding political decisions. [2]

  7. Listed building - Wikipedia

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    A listed building may not be demolished, extended, or altered without permission from the local planning authority, which typically consults the relevant central government agency. In England and Wales, a national amenity society must be notified of any work to be done on a listed building which involves any element of demolition. [3]

  8. Hazelwood House, Sligo - Wikipedia

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    Hazelwood House is an 18th-century Palladian style country house in the parish of Calry, in County Sligo in north-west Ireland. The house, which is located in a 70-acre (28 ha) demesne approximately 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Sligo town, is a protected structure. Hazelwood, an ancient area of woodland, forms part of the original estate.

  9. Irish property bubble - Wikipedia

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    By the second quarter of 2010, house prices in Ireland had fallen by 35% compared with the second quarter of 2007, and the number of housing loans approved fell by 73%. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The collapse of the property bubble was one of the major contributing factors to the post-2008 Irish banking crisis .