Seanad debates

Tuesday, 10 December 2002

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill, 2002: Second Stage.

 

I ask the Minister to reflect closely on my next point. There will be a tendency for architects designing local authority houses to try to make the housing estate look different through design concepts. I have nothing against architects being Dublin based. They seem to come from Dublin and present a proposal with plans and drawings which look extremely well on paper. However, they seem to consider density in Dublin terms, where, because of cost, it is necessary to compress a large number of units into an area as small as possible. When a local authority housing scheme is built in Newcastle West or elsewhere, there is a tendency to provide for a high density. In many cases this is in sharp contrast to the imposition the planners will place on private developers with regard to the provision of green areas.

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