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UK planners to clear Bord Pleanala's backlog

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2001 / June 01 2001: UK planners to clear Bord Pleanala's backlog

Fifty UK planners have been hired by An Bord Pleanála on a fee-per-case basis to help clear a backlog of planning appeals, its chairman, Mr John O'Connor, has revealed. In addition, over half of the tenders received by the board to provide planning reports on appeal files in batches of 30 are from planning consultancy firms based in the UK. The need to look abroad arises from a shortage of professional planners in Ireland, which Mr O'Connor described as a "very serious constraint" at a seminar organised by McCann FitzGerald, solicitors.

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