The Government is proposing to make it easier for people in rural Ireland to build a second home on family land.

Draft new planning guidelines going before Cabinet today, would allow homeowners build a one-off house on the same site, to facilitate downsizing.

Minister of State for Planning and Local Government, Waterford TD John Cummins, says it forms part of a wider overhaul of planning policy for rural and Gaeltacht communities.

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