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Bungalow blitz will remain a blight on landscape despite ‘high-level review’

You’d never guess the Government is in the process of finalising a plan that will determine the future of Ireland for decades to come — where people are going to live and how they will be provided for in terms of housing, schools, healthcare, transport, leisure facilities and everything else.

The Government’s new draft planning framework moves us closer to a more dysfunctional country, writes Frank McDonald City dwellers are increasingly living in standardised, high-density apartment blocks. Photo: Getty You’d never guess the Government is in the process of finalising a plan that will determine the future of Ireland for decades to come — where people are going to live and how they will be provided for in terms of housing, schools, healthcare, transport, leisure facilities and everything else. This first revision of the 2018 National Planning Framework (NPF) is taking place in the midst of a population boom, with figures from the Central Statistics Office showing the number of people resident in the State is up by 98,700 in the 12 months to last April, bringing the total to 5.

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