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Take the spat out of spatial
Time for consensual but disciplined balanced regional development through a long-delayed new National Planning Framework
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Limerick is a lady not a dame
On Monday 19 September there was one city grabbing Irish headlines – Limerick. Unusually, it has remained in the news, as if in compensation for years of neglect. Ireland’s underdog has been thrown a €500 million bone in the form of the Limerick 2030 Plan. The fanfare for this much-needed recovery plan coincided with the […]
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Limerick is a lady not a dame
Limerick Twenty Thirty is progress but sells the city short, failing to learn the lessons of rejuvenation elsewhere, focusing on quantity not quality, and not engaging locals
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Galway Sprawlway
The proposed ringroad and continuing prevalence of one-off housing applications symptomise historical planning anarchy and the derivative current planning stasis in Galway City and County
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Galway Sprawlway
Around one hundred submissions were received by Galway’s City Council on its Draft Development Plan 2017-23 by the deadline of 5 October. Meanwhile, a number of well-known community and environmental activists in Galway City have come together to form a new alliance to promote a ‘Future Cities’ concept based on “regenerative urban development, ‘green’ living, smart […]
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Documenting what’s left
John Gibbons interviews Liam Lysaght, Director of the National Biodiversity Data Centre. Ireland’s largely dysfunctional relationship with its natural environment was neatly summed up by former Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, when he moaned that his ill-fated Celtic Tiger was being stymied “because of swans, snails and the occasional person hanging out of a tree”. While the […]
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The vanishing Devane
It’s time to treasure and protect the legacy of Ireland’s most underrated modernist architect, Andy Devane