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Bungalow epidemic 'a threat' to national plan

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / May 29 2001: Bungalow epidemic 'a threat' to national plan

The "epidemic" of one-off houses in the countryside is now threatening implementation of the Government's Ł40 billion National Development Plan, according to the president of the Irish Planning Institute. Opening the IPI's annual conference yesterday, Mr Philip Jones said the spread of rural housing had created "an army of objectors to any infrastructural works that might spoil their view or impose any inconvenience on their new `pastoral' way of life

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