Fresh efforts are being made to help young Irish planners, who have been forced to emigrate in search of work.

The International Press Institute said today 52 journalists lost their lives in the first eight months of the year because of their jobs – four fewer than in the same period in 2009.

Top planners will join forces today to discuss how to tackle the growing blight of ghost estates.

AS well as a drop in the price of many goods, the recession has other benefits – the ravaged Irish landscape which has been the victim of a huge amount of destruction since the mid-1990’s is getting a break.

NAMA must promote proper planning and sustainable development and not just the best return on land development, the Irish Planning Institute has warned.

Donal Hickey on developers’ failure to deliver services.

Developers should be forced to pay more towards the cost of local amenities, it was claimed today.

A new report addressing Ireland’s population growth and the challenges it poses will be launched today by professionals in the construction sector.

PLANS to develop a new commuter railway station on Cork’s northside have been approved.

Developers need to make an effort to reach out to the public when embarking on major projects, planners warned today.

A global media watchdog today protested against the decision by a Russian radio station to take Russian-language FM broadcasts by the BBC off the air.

MANY towns and villages are becoming over-populated and congested, just like Dublin, a rural dwellers’ conference heard yesterday.

THE Irish Planning Institute (IPI) has called for more radical planning solutions to counteract problems associated with demographic changes highlighted in the new census figures.

The body that represents planners in Ireland has expressed concern about a new Bill currently making its way through the Dáil.

Environment Minister Dick Roche today rejected calls to draw up a new blueprint for regional development as the country’s population is expected to pass five million by 2020.

Planners have been made scapegoats by discontented politicians, idealists and the general public who have little appreciation of the complexity of the planning system, according to Iain Douglas, President of the Irish Planning Institute.

THE blueprint for developing our villages, towns and cities lacks long-term vision and is “a waste of time”, a planning conference heard yesterday.

THERE was 17% drop in the number of planning permissions granted for new houses and apartments in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year.

PLANNING controversies are not a thing of the past, the Irish Planning Institute (IPI) has warned.