This year, the number of reviews related to dwellings supply by the Seoul city government rose more than 20% from a year earlier. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said the city will accelerate dwellings supply through swift reviews.
On the day, at the "2025 urban dwellings performance sharing meeting" held at Seoul City Hall, Mayor Oh shared the achievements made over the past year by key committees related to urban planning and dwellings, and discussed the future vision for urban policy.
Mayor Oh said, "The committees' professional judgment and speedy administration through the expansion of the fast-track integrated planning (Shintong planning) and integrated reviews are the key drivers that are practically leading the expansion of dwellings supply and innovation in urban space."
He added, "Reviews for urban planning and redevelopment projects are not merely administrative procedures, but the final decision-making process that draws Seoul's future blueprint," and said they are "an important foundation for maintaining balanced regional development and the golden time for housing supply."
Mayor Oh also expressed an intention to boost the speed of dwellings supply by revitalizing stalled urban redevelopment projects through swift and responsible committee reviews.
The four committees—the Seoul City Urban Planning Committee, the Joint Urban Architecture Committee, the Integrated Review Committee for Redevelopment Projects, and the Integrated Review Committee for Small-Scale Dwellings Maintenance—reviewed 411 urban planning and redevelopment agenda items through a total of 100 meetings this year. Last year, they reviewed 341 items across 80 meetings.
The Urban Planning Committee shared cases of public contribution reviews that considered the expansion of social overhead capital (SOC) and responses to climate disasters. The Integrated Review Committee for Redevelopment Projects shared results from operating the "fast-track integrated review," which consolidates multiple reviews at the project implementation approval stage into one. The Integrated Review Committee for Small-Scale Dwellings Maintenance introduced a case in which consolidating street housing projects into a cluster-town achieved integrated installation of underground parking, expanded green and rest spaces, and improved project feasibility.