Planning system designed to make you feel small

PLANNING affects all our lives, be it for cities, towns, road, rail or other infrastructure. At its best it can be exciting and inclusive, at its worst it can be a disaster.

With good planning one would expect genuine consultation with the aim of arriving at the best possible outcome.

Contrast this with what we hear of people around Ireland today whose experience of the State planning system has been one of exclusion, dismissal, even ridicule.