The
Government’s Housing For All – A New Housing Plan for Ireland
proposed a new tax to activate vacant land for residential purposes as a
part of the Pathway to Increasing New Housing Supply. The Residential
Zoned Land Tax was introduced by the Finance Act 2021. The
dataset contains the land identified as being covered by the tax from
all of the local authorities in the state. The available datasets will
comprise the draft maps, published on 1 November 2022 and the
supplemental maps, published on 1 May 2023.The
dataset will identify serviced land in cities, towns and villages which
is residentially zoned and ‘vacant or idle’ mixed use land. The lands
identified on the maps are considered capable of increasing housing
supply as a consequence. Certain settlements will not be identified due to lack of capacity or services or due to out of date zonings. The dataset will also identify the amount in hectares of zoned serviced land for each settlement.