Dublin City Council launches new housing delivery opportunity

Dublin City Council has today launched a new housing delivery process that aims to enable private developers to engage with Dublin City Council on sites with existing planning permission to potentially supply and deliver a significant volume of public housing units. 

Under the Competitive Dialogue process, homebuilders and housing developers are being asked to make submissions outlining potential housing units (houses or apartments) with planning permission across Dublin City Council’s administrative area that they would be interested in entering into partnership with Dublin City Council to develop. 

Competitive Dialogue forms part of Dublin City Council’s housing delivery programme under the Housing for All Plan published by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Mr. Darragh O’Brien TD on 2nd September 2021. 

The Council invites proposals from economic operators that can deliver social, affordable, or mixed tenure, to include new build construction with valid planning permission, partially finished housing units with valid planning permission, or a scheme with a valid planning permission, which forms part of a larger development. 

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alison Gilliland, said, “The challenge of providing affordable and social housing for all the citizens of Dublin cannot be underestimated. There are a significant amount of private Planning Permissions not activated in the Dublin City area and it is hoped that the Competitive Dialogue process can help unlock these and deliver homes for the citizens of Dublin in most need of a secure roof over their heads.”

For specific details on the different lots within the programme, please consult the associated documents available for download from www.etenders.gov.ie. The closing date for submissions via eTenders is 13th June 2022 at 12 noon. 

Coilin O’Reilly, Assistant Chief Executive of Dublin City Council with responsibility for Housing & Community Services said, “We are pleased to be launching this Competitive Dialogue programme with the aim to increase the supply of social and affordable homes. This will be done over the lifetime of the Housing for All Plan and beyond in partnership with the home builders, developers and government agencies. It is hoped that this innovative approach will help bring additional units to our already ambitious housing delivery programme.”

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Notes to the Editor:

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The Dublin City Council Housing Programme 2022-2026 is part of the delivery plan under the new Housing for All plan as approved by Government in 2021. Housing for All plans to deliver over 300,000 new homes including 90,000 social homes and 54,000 affordable homes for purchase or rent by 2030 so as to meet the housing deficit in the State over the time period. There are significant targets to be achieved in Dublin City and the Competitive Dialogue Process, Turnkey Programme serves as one of the delivery channels in assisting the Council in providing housing units to the city by collaborating with key stakeholders in the private sector. Competitive Dialogue  forms part of a programme for Dublin City Council associated with the Government’s Housing For All Plan published by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Mr. Darragh O’Brien TD  on 2nd September 2021. Dublin City Council proposes to deliver both social, affordable and mixed tenure schemes in delivery of its housing programme for the coming years.

Dublin City Council therefore invites proposals from Candidates who can deliver social, affordable, or mixed tenure schemes, to include new build construction with valid planning permission, partially finished housing units with valid planning permission, or a scheme with valid planning permission which forms part of a larger development. 

As a number of different solutions might be suitable, this procurement process is divided into a number of categories, referred to as “Lots” of housing units. Interested parties can indicate which Lot or Lots are of interest to them. They may submit a solution for any number of schemes or sites under any Lot, but each submission can apply to only one Lot and an individual submission must be made for each and every scheme. At this stage the Lots are indicative only and may be adjusted during the competitive dialogue process. The indicative Lots to submit against are the following: