Tall buildings study for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2006 / February 23

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is to commission its own tall buildings study in the wake of having so many of its decisions to grant planning permission for high-density housing schemes overturned by An Bord Pleanála. In the meantime, the new county manager, Owen Keegan, has asked the council's planning department to ensure that the scale and height of new developments is appropriate and complies with the principles of good urban design. This was interpreted by some observers as an implicit criticism of the policies being pursued by Michael Gough, the council's director of services for planning and economic development, and chief architect of its high-rise agenda. In his first public statement on the raft of refusals by An Bord Pleanála for major housing schemes in the area, Keegan said the planners would "reassess" how they are applying provisions in the county plan to protect existing residential amenity.

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