Cllr. Maria Murphy Press Release Murphy Welcomes Decision to Exempt Unfinished Estates From Household Charge
List of exempted housing estates for 2012 in Meath:
https://www.householdcharge.ie/UHE/Meath.pdf
20th January 2012
Press Release
Murphy Welcomes Decision to Exempt Unfinished Estates
From Household Charge
Dunboyne Councillor Maria Murphy has welcomed the decision by the Department of Environment Community & Local Government to exempt unfinished estates from the household charge. However there are anomalies in the list which has recently been published and the matter will have to be revisited.
“In 2011 officials from the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government carried out a national survey of unfinished housing developments. As part of this survey, all unfinished developments were examined and categorized from numbers 1 through 4. The Department has now announced that the estates listed in Categories 3 & 4 are entitled to a waiver from payment of the household charge in 2012. Category 3 is where a receiver has not been appointed and the developer is still in place but effectively inactive and Category 4 is where the development has been effectively abandoned and is posing serious problems for residents “.
“It makes absolute sense that unfinished housing estates be exempt from the €100 household charge. Residents of these estates face daily distress as they view half completed houses all around them. There are 23 housing estates on the list in Co. Meath.
I believe that this is a positive decision by the Department as it recognises the particular circumstances of these estates”.
“Estates such as Fairlands in Dunboyne and Kribensis Manor in Clonee are included on the list however Summerseat in Clonee has been omitted. The developer of Summerseat recently applied for an extension of his planning permission from 5 to 10 years. This planning permission is for a total of 377 housing units. At present there are up to 100 incomplete housing units on the site. I
strongly believe that Summerseat should also be included on the list of estates exempted this year from payment of the charge. There are other similiar examples across the County. Meath County Council played no part in drafting the list or assigning the category numbers to the estates and this is the result. I can appreciate that this is the first time for this exercise but it will have financial ramifications for the householders. The list has to be reviewed if we are to be fair to all our householders. I am making representations on this issue to the Minister for the Environment, Phil Hogan TD”.
ENDS
For more details contact:
Cllr. Maria Murphy, 3 The Close, Lutterell Hall, Dunboyne, Co. Meath.
Mariacmurphy@eircom.net
087-6579895
