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  1. 3rd May 2008, 05:38 PM #1
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    Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    According to tomorrow's SBP the government have approved a bill that will have a 'use it or lose it' clause for development land with the loss of zoning after 5 years plus financial penalties. Also included is the compulsory acquisition of the land for public projects, including housing and schools at a little over agricultural values rather than development value.
    The government is moving on this due to the cost of acquiring land for infrastructure projects which is eating up 25% of total capital spending.
    The government is relying on the 'common good' restrictions to private property rights in the Constitution.
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  3. 3rd May 2008, 05:41 PM #2
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    about damn time. The days of national need enriching a cabal of farmers and landowners is finally at an end.
    We need to radically change every system that has enabled the wholesale destruction of the Irish landscape, rural and urban. There is no time for incremental step by step measures. The systems have failed utterly and the only hope for a real recovery requires the rule book to be torn up completely.
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    Quote Originally Posted by kerrynorth
    According to tomorrow's SBP the government have approved a bill that will have a 'use it or lose it' clause for development land with the loss of zoning after 5 years plus financial penalties. Also included is the compulsory acquisition of the land for public projects, including housing and schools at a little over agricultural values rather than development value.
    The government is moving on this due to the cost of acquiring land for infrastructure projects which is eating up 25% of total capital spending.
    The government is relying on the 'common good' restrictions to private property rights in the Constitution.
    Do you work for the Business Post?
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    The Kenny report recommendations, only 40 years late?

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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    No.
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  7. 3rd May 2008, 05:44 PM #6
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    Quote Originally Posted by FakeViking
    The Kenny report recommendations, only 40 years late?
    Well, we should have gotten a Green government earlier then, shouldn't we?
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    Quote Originally Posted by AndrewM
    Quote Originally Posted by FakeViking
    The Kenny report recommendations, only 40 years late?
    Well, we should have gotten a Green government earlier then, shouldn't we?
    And when do you think we might have a Green government? In another 40 years?

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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    damn communists -going to punish me for hanging on to my birthright - dont think so -Article 43 better come to the rescue

    Is this more or less what the Kenny report recommended in the 60's or 70's?
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    Quote Originally Posted by kerrynorth
    No.
    does a friend of yours?

    you always seem to have their scoops on a Saturday before the paper comes out.
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    Re: Government approve new land bill: 'use it or lose it'

    Quote Originally Posted by Aristotle II
    nooooooooooooooooooooooooo

    damn communists -going to punish me for hanging on to my birthright - dont think so -Article 43 better come to the rescue

    Is this more or less what the Kenny report recommended in the 60's or 70's?
    yep. And since when has windfall profiteering due to national need been a birthright? Musta missed that bit of the Constitution.

    ps Noel O'gara will be apoplectic
    We need to radically change every system that has enabled the wholesale destruction of the Irish landscape, rural and urban. There is no time for incremental step by step measures. The systems have failed utterly and the only hope for a real recovery requires the rule book to be torn up completely.
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