The characteristic human scale of Dublin is now more in
peril than at any time in its history, and the same is true of the State’s
“second-tier” cities of Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford, as well as
numerous smaller towns – all due to ultra-liberal planning guidelines that
effectively permit developers to build whatever they like wherever they like. The
mandatory guidelines on building heights imposed by Minister for Housing,
Planning and Local Government Eoghan Murphy last December have inaugurated an
unprecedented free-for-all that looks certain to result in the relatively
low-rise skylines of our urban areas being sacrificed on the altar of profit or
hubris, with random eruptions of high-rise buildings all over the place.
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