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The Buchanan report and its aftermath: Implications for Irish regional planning

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  • Breathnach Proinnsias

    (Department of Geography, Maynooth University, Ireland)

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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.

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  • Breathnach Proinnsias, 2019. "The Buchanan report and its aftermath: Implications for Irish regional planning," Administration, Sciendo, vol. 67(3), pages 41-63, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:vrs:admini:v:67:y:2019:i:3:p:41-63:n:3
    DOI: 10.2478/admin-2019-0020
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