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Planning Issues
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Your Guide to the Planning Process
"The
best way to make your views known on a Planning Application is to write
to the Council. Do this as soon as possible after the Planning
Application is lodged.
There’s no need to be very technical in the letter. Just outline your
concerns and views and remember to pay the fee (that Fianna Fáil and
the PD’s brought in) of €20."
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Policy |
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Green Party
launches Urban Development Policy
The Green Party firmly
believes that corruption and rezoning has imposed a terrible cost on new
communities, and now is the time to reclaim planning for the people. The Party's Urban Development
Policy provides for the setting up of a new land-use and planning agency. This new body would
co-ordinate transport investment with planning policies. It also places
communities
at the heart of the planning
process.
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Press
Releases |
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Click
here for a list of Ciarán's press releases on local, national and
international planning issues. |
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Newspaper
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Some
thoughts on One-off Housing
Independent 3rd January 2004
Ciaran outlines how a planning "free for all" will lead to a
worsening quality of life for all rural dwellers. Properly planned
communities will provide a better lifestyle for young and old and
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National
Spatial Strategy -Too little, too late?
Independent 29th November
2002 Ciarán welcomes the National Spatial Strategy but fears that the
political will is not there to implement long term changes in
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Conference
Papers |
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"Place-making through Density, Democracy and
Design"
Royal Town Planning Institute Summer School Bangor, Wales,
September 2003 Higher density housing reduces urban sprawl and leads to good quality
urban environments.
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Submissions |
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Local
Area Plans for Bray/Kilternan/Glenamuck/Old Connaught/Woodbrook /Shanganagh,
July 2004 Improved public transport, higher housing densities near transport nodes
and protection of green spaces are among Ciarán's concern with the
local area plans.
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Quality Bus Corridor
Blackrock-Merrion Road and Dundrum-Blackrock.
May 2004. Ciarán supports the QBC projects but wants greater protection for
the existing trees, better consultation with residents and more facilities
for cyclists.
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February 2007 |
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