Re: Re: Buildings on stilts in the Liffey

Fair point. I thought about it over the weekend and, in essence, I think the difference is that a development plan is intended to provide good guidance with an element of latitude in interpretation, but a planning scheme is a much more binding document (like an SDZ) with no latitude.

I would favour development plans that provides greater guidance and certainty, to avoid the bias you mention, but that’s a debate for another day.