‘Radical planning solutions’ needed to cope with growth

THE Government’s National Spatial Strategy is out of date and needs to be redrawn to cope with the country’s rapid population growth over the next decade, a top planner said yesterday.

Henk van der Kamp, Irish Planning Institute president, called for new developments to be spread around rather than concentrating solely on greater Dublin.

He told the institute’s conference in Sligo: “We need to review the National Spatial Strategy to consider the real possibility that Ireland may return to a population of 7.25 million.”