Ahern Rural Comments
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This smacks of appaling populism. Rural Ireland will cease to be if such mumble from the Taoiseach is allowed to dictate planning policy. If the Taoiseach can do such on the whim of some placating waffle then the entire development plans of county councils and the Spatial Strategy (as deficient as they were) were a complete and other waste of money. But then again this is Ireland….
I wonder if it would actually dawn on these Jackie Healy Rae’s if the one off blight got another head of steam on it – when they have no services whatsoever (A string of septic tanks is not good for the groundwater). We have more overhead electriciy lines than the UK! In stormy winter this is not good, and yet we wonder why our bills are going up again next January – bung blight breeding inefficiency and higher maintenance costs. Imagine the roads – it’s bad enough that we’re trying to acclerate our road building programme – but with little bungalows in need of the front garden being CPO’d and “local access” routes at every junction cancelling out the benefits of widening the road in the first place. If you want to see it in action go Kerry side – it ain’t pretty (for such a pretty place…).
radical suggestion — perhaps instead of blaming politicans (don’t we have local elections coming up?) perhaps we should be trying to educate the people away from the concept of their house and 1 acre garden of golf course bunker flower beds?
Politicans by their very nature are always trying to be all things to all men — hence Ahern’s two comments last week: one for a national trust; and the other to build bungalows on every piece of land left.
BTW I’m not endorsing any views held by Mr Ahern who I believe is best summed up here:
http://www.blather.net/shitegeist/000109.htm
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