Solutions: A high-density scheme of low-rise apartment homes offered for sale in London and designed by Peter Barber. But Dublin is a city falling down with empty crumbling buildings, shops with empty overhead floors and infill sites which actually cannot be developed to provide affordable homes. Expand Close Claire McManus of the RIAI / FacebookTwitterEmailWhatsapp Claire McManus of the RIAIThe local authority says you have to build high-density apartments. On a one hectare site you can build 35 houses (35 times the 13.5pc VAT charge) or you can build 150 apartments (150 times VAT). Better again would be no VAT at all on affordable family apartment schemes to be offered individually for sale.

Source: Irish Independent October 09, 2020 01:38 UTC