Re: Re: Irish Architects & Society

Unfortunately with the system in this country the LA planning departments are of little actual use for anything of any significant size or location. Not through any lack of expertise or skill I hasten to add, but simply because 99.99% of these schemes end up with the Bord. The temptation for any planner must be to toss a coin and grant / refuse – according to the fall – any scheme with more than one objection in after 5 weeks. And even then those vindicative tossers in An Taisce still have the right to object even if they didn’t at the start. Personally, I’d find it even more soul destroying than the side I’m on now