Blanket ban on one-off housing in Northern Ireland announced

@Blisterman wrote:

Good to hear about that. I don’t know what you guys have against one off housing.
Sure, a lot of it is crap. But look at the amount of great buildings which wouldn’t exist, if this law applied everywhere:

Fallingwater, Tugendat House, Nearly every great countryside mansion.

Hmmm indeed; point out to me how many great countryside mansions or award-winning designs have been thrown up in places like Liscannor and I’ll buy you a pint 😉

Sad fact of it is Blisterman that Fallingwater is the exception – and the car-dependent subruralisation that has taken place is largely unsustainable, a visual blight on the landscape, and a financial burden to the rest of society through much higher servicing costs.

There is a place for one-off housing – but not in the wholesale degrading manner by which it has been allowed in the 26 counties in recent years.