Posts Tagged ‘planning’

MOORE GROUP’S RESOURCE CENTRE

Our Resource Centre aims to be an open-source comprehensive tool and source of relevant information to anyone undertaking a range of activities or projects on the Island or off the shore of Ireland. The Centre will address the areas of planning, cultural heritage, coastal and marine issues, the natural environment and biodiversity and related issues. Stage 1 […]


Of the people, By the people, For the people

Of the people, By the people, For the people

Guest Post from Southie Sham. Here’s a second guest post from Southie Sham. Southie’s our man in North Dakota in ‘A-Merry-Ka’ and is a Principle Investigator archaeologist. An Irishman, he’ll occasionally post his sometimes skewed thoughts on living in the New World and North American Archaeology. Today SS compares Irish and American approaches to planning […]


Assemblage V

Assemblage V

Gathering stuff from the internest on Beer, Archaeology, the Environment, Aquaponics and anything else that strikes us as interesting, since May. On architecture and planning, parasitic cities, the death of the ‘first family’ (a phrase that will surely draw the attention of the all seeing totalitarian tea-drinking technocrats), roadkill and rodents, politics, Palin, Beer and […]


Councillors and Planning

Councillors and Planning

Tonight’s ‘Prime Time’ and ‘Questions and Answers’ both made for interesting viewing (although the Q & A debate never really took off). Allegations of auctioneers (or others involved in land or land dealings) elected as Councillors, ignoring their own planners, architects and heritage officers, facilitating developers, ignoring National Spatial Strategies, yielding to pressure from developers, […]