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Planning for rural housing in the Republic of Ireland: from national spatial strategies to development plans

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Menelaos GkartziosORCiD

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Abstract

This paper examines the role of spatial planning as a policy framework for managing rural housing within an integrated territorial development strategy. The paper focuses on the Republic of Ireland, which provides a useful case for analysing spatial planning and rural housing relationships, due to the State's recent shift towards spatial planning (formalized with the publication of the Irish National Spatial Strategy), as well as the level of housing construction that has been observed in an increasingly post-productivist countryside (triggered by counter-urbanization flows, increased affluence and demands for second holiday homes, etc.). The paper reviews all policy instruments that have been used to manage rural housing at various scales (from national strategies to local level development plans). It is argued that while spatial planning adopts an integrative vocabulary, as policy moves down the spatial scale hierarchy, multi-dimensional spatial goals are implemented through traditional, narrow land-use regulation. This often leads to rural housing being addressed in isolation from its wider social and economic context, disconnecting housing from wider rural community issues and ultimately failing to deliver a coordinated and coherent spatial policy for managing rural settlements.

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Author(s): Gkartzios M, Scott M

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: European Planning Studies

Year: 2009

Volume: 17

Issue: 12

Pages: 1751-1780

ISSN (print): 0965-4313

ISSN (electronic): 1469-5944

Publisher: Routledge

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09654310903322298

DOI: 10.1080/09654310903322298

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