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.

THE Government’s National Spatial Strategy is out of date and needs to be redrawn to cope with the country’s rapid population growth over the next decade, a top planner said yesterday.

THE Government’s National Spatial Strategy is out of date and needs to be redrawn to cope with the country’s rapid population growth over the next decade, a top planner said yesterday.

The Government was today urged to redraw the National Spatial Strategy to cope with the country’s rapid population growth over the next decade.

IF Mary O’Leary ever runs short of reasons to be cynical about the planning system, she casts her mind back to January 2004 to restock.