National Spatial Plan
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Well I think its an absolute shambles. There is clearly no vision in this document. It is full of waffle and waffle…. There should be only three or four locations set as new “gateway” towns – none of this hub nonsense.
The effect of this plan will not be immediate or sufficient to counter Dublin’s sprawl. Is there some sort of agenda that prevents them using the word “city” in the document???? Why they are playing politics with such an important issue is beyond me. It seems that every little town wants to become a city. The government does not want a city, but “gateways” and “hubs”. What a load of…. Yet another grand failure…..with the DTO, the NDP, Metro….
Here is the report – very quick to download…..
………..and to add a 20% shortage in electrical energy over the next 18 months and no plans in place……..looks like its also lights out on a genuine spatial plan as with all the plans referred to above..metro..rail-link to airport…….more “grimsville” is right..God help us all..what the hell will this country be like in 10 to 20 years from now …. vive Las Lagos.
walking to the AAI offices yesterday I passed down Kildare street… on the same day that Monaghan was being earmarked for expansion, the schoolkids from the town were protesting the consistant downgrading of the General Hospital there… same is going on in Dundalk…
This is parish pump politics on a shocking scale.
Looking at the map of our little country covered with a dozen-odd growth centres outside the cities, you can almost hear the murmurs of deals being done and hands being spit on and shook in the corridors of Leinster House and around Ireland.
It’s unworkable. Consolidating and building on the strength of Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford as real alternatives to Dublin should be challenge enough. Do they honestly believe that these ‘hubs’ can counterbalance the growth of a major conurbation like Dublin.
Castlebar? Tuam? Are they mad? Can you imagine a US multinational choosing Mallow over the M50?
The Midlands Triangle? Are they taking the piss? Are they thinking ‘If we draw it, they will come?’…
They won’t come. They will, as they’ve always done, go to Dublin and God knows what the place will be like in 20 years…
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