‘Many decisions fly in the face’ of spatial strategy

THE President of the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland (CCI) yesterday said too many decisions are being made without regard to the National Spatial Strategy (NSS) and the new National Development Plan must echo the NSS’s goals.

Speaking at CCI’s first National Conference on Local Economic Development in Limerick, Robin O’Sullivan said: “We have a National Spatial Strategy - or do we? I have to say that I often doubt it - many decisions, such as the Government’s decentralisation plan, seem to fly in the face of the goals set out in that strategy.”

He said that as the present National Development Plan draws to a close we are now wiser on the issues we face.