If the planning minister would ensure it was not nearly impossible to get planning for residential development and that there was at minimum an adequate supply of developable land, design would improve (News February 15).
Developers would be willing to take more risks on design if planners didn’t always use the fact that a design looks out of the ordinary as a reason for refusal.
It wouldn’t be such a gamble then to spend a little more time and budget on design, and the volume housebuilders might finally have to compete based on quality and design rather than dealing with a captive market where selling houses is not dissimilar from shooting fish in a barrel.
Michael Bay
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