The aim behind the blog is to chronicle all the happens of spatial planning in Ireland from a students perspective in the hope of somehow helping people understand planning in Ireland even a small bit better!
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The great experiment by our planners to copy the European tradition of having middle income families live in apartments has largely failed

How odd Fagan seems to be happy enough with the banks after all the trouble they have caused and believes planners should not be trusted!? Yet another person trying to fuel disenchantment  of planning! The great experiment by our planners to copy the European tradition of having middle income families live in apartments has largely failed,...

We need to design a workable land tax

The government’s proposed 80% tax on land as part of Nama is doomed to be withdrawn in due course because it will produce no revenue, writes Bill Nowlan The 80% levy on land will significantly delay the recovery of the land market, reduce current market values even more and act as a significant obstacle to...