Breathnach, Proinnsias
(2019)
The Buchanan report and its aftermath: Implications for Irish regional planning.
Administration, 67 (3).
pp. 41-63.
ISSN 2449-9471
Abstract
The so-called Buchanan report, commissioned by the Irish government and
published in May 1969, comprised a set of proposals for regional industrial
development in Ireland over the period 1966–86. The main thrust of the
report was the concentration of the great bulk of new industrial employment
creation in Dublin and eight proposed ‘growth centres’. The plan provided for
the creation of powerful planning authorities to oversee development in the
regions. The government rejected these proposals and opted instead to
continue with the existing policy of widespread dispersal of new industry.
While meeting with initial success, this policy proved unsustainable in the long
term. The paper reviews the implications of the Buchanan report experience
for the regional planning process in Ireland, arguing that failure to learn from
this experience served to undermine the National Spatial Strategy, with a
similar fate likely for the forthcoming National Planning Framework.
| Item Type: |
Article
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| Keywords: |
Buchanan report; growth centres; regional planning authorities;
regional industrial plans; National Spatial Strategy; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Geography |
| Item ID: |
13915 |
| Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.2478/admin-2019-0020 |
| Depositing User: |
Proinnsias Breathnach
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| Date Deposited: |
01 Feb 2021 15:35 |
| Journal or Publication Title: |
Administration |
| Publisher: |
De Gruyter Open |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
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