Development pressure threatens ‘planning system collapse’

THE planning system is at risk of buckling under the pressure of unprecedented development in Ireland, the country’s planners warned yesterday.

Planners are demanding their ranks be swelled further if they are to cope with the huge strain of trying to manage the country’s concrete sprawl.

In the first census of its kind for a decade, the Irish Planning Institute said it has uncovered a system that is on the brink of being unable to deal with the workload.