The great debate on one-off housing

Donal Hickey on sustainable communities and a low-carbon future.

LOOKED at through the eyes of planners and environmentalists, Dublin and the far south-west might as well be in two different planets. There’s no shortage of examples to prove that.

A few days ago at the conference in Dublin, Prof Frank Convery, of Comhar Sustainable Development Council, spoke out against one-off housing which, he maintained, was not going to help provide sustainable communities into the future.