300 residential unit sites to be unlocked in Carlow with €1B funding
This project will directly unlock lands for 300 residential units in Carlow
Carlow is to benefit from a €1bn Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund.
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne TD has today, Thursday June 18, announced that an infrastructure project in Carlow will be supported in the first phase of the Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund (HIIF) programme.
The project will be funded, as part of a major multi-annual commitment to unlocking land to enable the delivery of housing at scale.
Carlow Project: Service Road, Carlow Town
- Project is for the remedial and improvement work to the L4058 (c. 795m length).
- This project will directly unlock lands for 300 residential units and indirectly unlock a further 100 residential units.
Administered by the new Housing Activation Office within the Department of Housing, the €1 bn Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund is the largest housing infrastructure fund announced in Ireland for many years.
Carlow Minister Browne said: “Today, we are making our first announcements under the Housing Infrastructure Investment Fund.
“In our first call for applications, we invited Local Authorities and the Land Development Agency to apply for funding to progress infrastructure projects that will unlock housing in towns and cities across the country – with an emphasis on shovel ready projects and works which can be quickly started.
“Having examined all the applications, today I am announcing that a project in Carlow will be supported and accelerated under the programme.
“I am intensely focused on delivering more homes but also on delivering the best possible environment for constructing more homes.
“Across the country, including in Carlow we see zoned land lying idle because the critical enabling infrastructure needed to support housing development is not in place.
“The project I am providing funding for today will directly tackle this problem. By investing at scale now, we can accelerate home building.”
The HIIF programme funds projects that enable local activation in towns across the country.
The Housing Activation Office, will coordinate the multi-agency investment required at all levels, working directly with critical utilities and transport agencies, including Uisce Éireann and ESB Networks, to ensure that complementary investment is provided and that lands are fully serviced and ready to deliver housing.
The Department will continue to develop the HIIF and intends to broaden the approach in its next call for applications later this year which will include a range of public and private sector delivery partners.