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Sorry I missed this;
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0422/planning.html
Planning board rules on Cork, Kerry appeals
22 April 2005 14:34
An Bord Pleanála has given its clearest indication yet as to how it will apply the imposition of Irish language conditions to the granting of planning permission for new housing developments in Gaeltacht areas.Dealing with two planning appeals in counties Galway and Kerry, it has decided that the number of houses to be reserved for Irish speakers will be linked directly to the percentage of people living in the area who already speak Irish.
In Furbo, Co Galway, the board stated that 60% of occupants in the development needed to be either fluent or have a command of the Irish language.
Granting planning permission, three apartments and six houses will need to be occupied by Irish speakers.
In Ballyferriter, Co Kerry, the board stated that 75% of occupants in the development needed to be either fluent or have a command of the Irish language, meaning 12 houses are specified for Irish speakers in the planning permission.
The board ruled in both cases that the restriction on occupancy should remain in place for 15 years. Ends
I find the fifteen year occupancy rule very well considered
Yes – and the percentage-indexed occupancy an appropriate solution.
Look at this article plonked on a hill in Kilkenny:
Features including:
. Commanding views of scenic rural landscape – as long as I don’t have anything to do with it
. ‘Cathedral style’ ceiling to living room – well something has to make up for the exterior
. Easily accessible; Dublin 1 hour 40 minutes, Rosslare Harbour 1 hour, Waterford 40 minutes – handy commutes indeed
. Decking to the front – slash beach-hut
. 6 acres with excellent views – well at least there’s space to extend this squalid little property
. Electric Gates – all important living in a filed in the middle of nowhere
I posted a picture of the statue of liberty on this tread a while ago and had been meaning to photograph this fro a long time. This though as opposed to laughable is actually realy cool -pop art on the side of a shed just outside Ardara (Co.Donegal). I don’t know who did it but I must find out and buy him/mer a pint.
Clare planners to amend rules for one-off houses
Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2006 / February 2
The Irish TimesPressure from councillors to ease restrictions on building one-off homes in Co Clare has forced planners to agree to further amend the Clare County Development Plan. At a special council meeting yesterday, councillors called for further easing of restrictions. County manager Alec Fleming responded by saying he would draw up proposals to amend part of the council’s rules relating to allowing locals to build one-off homes. Councillors claimed current restrictions were too restrictive and prevented locals from building in their own areas.
Has anyone got the full article?
@Thomond Park wrote:
Has anyone got the full article?
Here it is :-
Clare planners to amend rules for one-off houses
Gordon DeeganPressure from councillors to ease restrictions on building one-off homes in Co Clare has forced planners to agree to further amend the Clare County Development Plan.
At a special council meeting yesterday, councillors called for further easing of restrictions.
County manager Alec Fleming responded by saying he would draw up proposals to amend part of the council’s rules relating to allowing locals to build one-off homes.
Councillors claimed current restrictions were too restrictive and prevented locals from building in their own areas.
Councillors already moved in September to dismantle their “locals-only” policy when they unanimously passed two motions against the advice of management to amend the plan to make it easier for applicants to build one-off homes.
In the existing plan, adopted in February of last year, the council sought to control the proliferation of one-off homes in large areas of Clare by imposing a general ban on non-locals from building homes.
At the meeting, the council’s senior planner denied an arrangement between the planning department and a select group of architects.
Liam Conneally said: “There is no cosy relationship or cosy cartel with these architects. The Agents Liaison Group (ALG) was introduced to improve lines of communication, but it will have to take a different format and be more representative of the agents operating in the county.”
In a letter, the architects said they “are totally frustrated by lack of consistency, poor management structure, lack of productive dialogue, poor communication and absence of a rational coherent, consistent and common sense approach to planning within the council”.
The group saw little point in holding any further meetings with the planning department “until there has been a significant and tangible overhaul of the present system, which, in our view, is clearly not working”.
Mr Fleming said the council’s director for planning, Bernadette Kinsella, would discuss the situation with the architects.
© The Irish Times
KB,
Thanks for posting this very interesting article it really does display the ‘megaphone diplomacy’ that seems to characterise many facets of the Irish planning system.
National Development Plan to be announced
23 January 2007 09:47
Details of the Government’s multi-billion euro National Development Plan will be announced this afternoon.The plan, which is the largest to be proposed in the history of the State, details the projects on which the €180 billion will be spent.
The Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, said that measures such as an annual reporting mechanism to the Oireachtas under the plan would be put in place to ensure the money was spent properly.
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The money will be spent on infrastructure and social inclusion measures, as well as on education, and north/south co-operation over the next seven years.
Mr Cowen said the plan will be very ambitious and that it will be unlike any previous plans because the challenges facing the economy now are different.
He said that the country is going through an intensification of economic and social change and that there is no room for complacency.
Infrastructure bottlenecks need to be tackled and quality of life needs to be improved for everyone, he said.
Mr Cowen added that Ireland needs better transportation and more balanced regional development, and improved social cohesion measures.
The minister said that on a like-for-like basis the new plan will put about €2 billion per year more into the economy than an earlier version analysed by the Economic and Social Research Institute.
He said that the ‘ramp-up’ in capital spending involved in the plan would not be that great, and that spending on infrastructure would average about 5.5% of GNP, rather than the 4.9% set out for this year.
He also said that the infrastructure improvements in the plan were important necessary work that may not be achieved if the Government were to delay doing it.
The minister said that the country has experienced higher incomes and that public wealth in things like roads, schools and hospitals now had to be improved.
In Platform 11 they used to have a thread called ‘announcements watch’ which related to the same projects being launched as new and groundbreaking even though it was the fiftieth time that had been launched. This farcical rehash contains nothing new although my proposal does. I suggest 80 statutory holidays a year for all workers
National Development Plan – main points
January 23, 2007 15:18
Spending under the National Development Plan, details of which were announced today, is broken up into five categories.Economic infrastructure
Under transport, €13.3 billion will be spent on national roads, and almost €13 billion on public transport, including measures already announced in Transport 21. The €8.5 billion energy component will include investments by ESB, Bord Gáis and EirGrid, as well as the East/West and North/South interconnectors.In the environmental area, €4.75 billion is allocated to water services, with €270m for the purchase of climate change trading allowances.
There will be €435m for communications, including measures ‘to address market failures in the provision of broadband’.
€830m is allocated for the Government’s decentralisation programme up to 2011.
Enterprise, Science and Innovation
€6 billion will be invested in science, technology and innovation, mainly in research and development. Enterprise Ireland will receive €1.7 billion to invest in indigenous companies, while €1.6 billion will be aimed at attracting foreign direct investment.
€8 billion goes towards agriculture and food development, aimed at creating a ‘competitive, consumer-focused agri-food sector’. €800m is provided for tourism marketing, infrastructure and training.
Human Capital
€2.8 billion will be invested in training and skills development programmes, with another €4.9 billion for specific groups such as lone parents, people with disabilities and travellers. There is also €13 billion for third-level infrastructure and €5 billion for modernising first and second level schools.
Social infrastructure
The biggest portion goes to housing, with €21 billion for social, affordable and voluntary housing.This will allow for the provision of 60,000 new local authority houses over the period of the plan as well as another 17,000 affordable homes.
The remainder goes to health, prisons and sport – including the Lansdowne Road stadium redevelopment.
Social inclusion
€12 billion goes to a children’s programme, which includes childcare services, recreational facilities and special needs education. There will be almost €10 billion aimed at helping older people to live independently at home and €19 billion for programmes for people with disabilities.Regional
On regional development, the Government is to set up a €300m fund to help develop local infrastructure in the ‘gateway’ centres identified in the National Spatial Strategy. The fund is designed to attract matching funding from public or private sources
Am I missing something or have development plans changed from development of national infrastructure to listing all likely government spending for as long a period as is possible to deliver the largest figure possible.
Since when has a FAS training course for upholsterers represented development? Or since when have affordable houses paid for by developers had anything to do with National Development of Infrastructure.
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