Dublin City Council has published a tender seeking Partnership Development Opportunities through Development Agreements with private developers and landowners to deliver large-scale, mixed-tenure residential developments across the city.

The call for proposals invites third-party submissions capable of delivering a minimum of 100 social housing units per development. Ideally, projects will incorporate a diverse mix of other tenures, including cost-rental, affordable purchase, and private housing. The initial phase, designated as Lot 1, targets sites that already possess planning permission and will include community or cultural facilities where required by the Dublin City Development Plan. Future procurement rounds focusing on sites without prior planning permission are scheduled for launch later this year.

The strategic initiative aims to accelerate housing delivery up to 2030, promoting tenure diversity while ensuring high-quality design that aligns with both the City Development Plan and the housing design standards set by the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Lord Mayor Councillor Ray McAdam said: "The future success of Dublin depends on our ability to deliver high quality homes at scale for the people who want to live, work and raise families in our capital city. Dublin City Council is already progressing more than 100 housing projects with the potential to deliver approximately 12,000 new social and affordable homes on Council owned lands, but we need to go further and faster. This new partnership approach is an important step towards accelerating housing delivery across Dublin by working with developers and landowners to create sustainable mixed tenure communities with the social, affordable, cost rental and private homes our city urgently needs. Creating an active city, a living city and an engaged city depends on ensuring Dublin remains a place where people can continue to build their lives and futures."

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Dublin City Housing & Social Inclusion SPC Chair, Cllr Deirdre Heney, commented: "Across the City, Dublin City Council is already actively progressing over 100 housing projects with potential for 12,000 new social and affordable homes on Dublin City Council owned lands. But we need to do more. This Call for Housing is an innovative approach that we are now launching. It gives private landowners and developers the opportunity to work directly with the City Council to deliver social and affordable homes on their land in line with specific criteria set by Dublin City. We see this as an opportunity to get more homes built."

Assistant Chief Executive of Dublin City Council, Mick Mulhern, added: "We started market engagement on our Call for Housing earlier this year and have been encouraged by the strong interest shown by private landowners, developers and contractors who see the opportunity to work with Dublin City Council to deliver much needed new social and affordable homes. We have listened to feedback provided to date and we believe we are now launching a procurement process that will secure delivery of new homes. It is expected that a shortlisting process will be undertaken in the coming months with the award of partnership agreements anticipated by the end of the year. Further details will be published through official procurement channels."