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Tue, 5 Oct 2010Irish TimesOLIVIA KELLY EXCESSIVE AND inappropriate land zonings by local authorities have obstructed the implementation of the National Spatial Strategy, a mid-term review of the strategy has found. The strategy was published in 2002 as a blueprint for economic and social development within the State over the following 20 years. It designated the State’s cities as “gateways” and a large number of county towns as “hubs” around which development should be focused ...
, 5 Oct 2010The Irish ExaminerBy Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent INDEPENDENT planning experts have welcomed a move to open up dialogue with architects and others involved in house design. a d v e r t i s e m e n t Up to 60 architects, draftsmen and house designers attended a meeting called by Limerick County Council’s planning department. Architect Michael Healy, who worked on the design of JP McManus’s €100 million mansion, said the group was able to put concerns by clients to the planners ...
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5 Oct 2010Irish TimesIN 2002, WHEN the Government published Ireland’s first National Spatial Strategy (NSS), there was some incredulity that so many “gateways” and “hubs” had been designated for growth – nine in each category; it was as if our political leaders had adopted Gay Byrne’s oft-repeated Late Late Show line about how there was “something for everyone in the audience” ...
A report by Carol Jordan broadcast in the last few days on CNN about ghost estates, shot in east Cork. It features Cian O’Callaghan of NSRI and Ireland After Nama.
As Ireland tallies the bill for rescuing Anglo Irish Bank Corp., the unfinished houses on 600 ghost estates are a reminder of how a founding member of the euro became home to the region’s biggest banking crisis.
Wed, 29 Sep 2010Irish Independent
ONE of the country's biggest local authorities was last night forced to defend giving the green light for 18 new houses in a community already blighted by two 'ghost' housing estates. Ballyhooly Community Council in north Cork has vowed to fight the planning for the 18 new homes -- granted by Cork County Council -- after warning that local schools, water and sewerage systems were already stretched to breaking point ...
Galway City Councillors have been accused of making “inappropriate planning decisions” and letting developer interests influence their choices when voting on a new seven-year plan for the city. A draft of the 2010-1017 City Development Plan was finally agreed on at City Hall on Monday night in a mammoth meeting of Galway City Council that concluded just before the midnight deadline.
Neil Callanan Nama could end up having to lease its land to people growing vegetables under plans being drawn up by Dublin City Council. Its draft development plan states that an "under-utilised or derelict site in the city" will have to be used to "support the provision of community gardens, allotments, local markets and pocket parks". It means that Nama may have to lease out the land to growers after it seizes it from bankrupt developers ...
