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10 Main Points ➔ This Strategy is a twenty-year planning framework designed to deliver more balanced social, economic and physical development between regions. ➔ Ireland’s economic success in recent years has been accompanied by spatial patterns of development which have seen employment opportunities becoming more concentrated in some areas, while economic weaknesses remain in others. ➔ A commitment to prepare a spatial strategy to plan at national level for the country’s future spatial development was included in the National Development Plan 2000-2006. ➔ Balanced regional development requires that the full potential of each region to contribute to the overall performance of the State be developed – on a sustainable economic, social and environmental basis. ➔ The Strategy sets out how all areas of the country will have the opportunity to develop to their potential. ➔ The Strategy will provide strategic planning guidance for a range of Government policies and regional and local plans. ➔ In conjunction with the Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland, Shaping our Future, the NSS addresses spatial issues for the island of Ireland as a whole. ➔ The rate at which the NSS can be implemented will be subject to overall macro-economic and budgetary considerations. 1.1 Purpose of the NSS This National Spatial Strategy for Ireland (NSS) is a twenty year planning framework designed to achieve a better balance of social, economic, physical development and population growth between regions. Its focus is on people, on places and on building communities. Through closer matching of where people live with where they work, different parts of Ireland will for the future be able to sustain • a better quality of life for people • a strong, competitive economic position and • an environment of the highest quality. This Strategy is • national – it provides a national framework to guide policies, programmes and investment • spatial – it is concerned with the location of people, their work and other activities and with how different places relate to each other • strategic – it offers a broad, long-term, comprehensive twenty-year view for achieving more balanced patterns of development. The remarkable economic, social and physical progress of recent years has established a platform upon which policies can be put in place to ensure that more balanced development is achieved, within a well-planned spatial structure of attractive, competitive and innovative places. The National Spatial Strategy | People, Places and Potential
The overall approach taken by the NSS to achieving balanced regional development is as follows: (i) Economic role of Dublin and of other regions Much of Ireland’s recent prosperity has been generated in the Greater Dublin Area (GDA) 1 . The performance of the GDA will remain pivotal to the overall economic well being of Ireland. However, Ireland also needs to build up other places and areas to be similarly strong on a national and international scale — generating benefits closer to where people live. (ii) Quality of Life Unbalanced development is affecting quality of life. It is, for example, leading to more long-distance commuting due to the strong economic performance of some areas and the comparative weakness of others. Long distance commuting and residential development located at greater and greater distance from where people work, are not sustainable in the longer-term — economically, socially or environmentally. More balanced regional development is the answer but this must also be supported by appropriate local land use policies. (iii) Settlement Ireland’s growing population provides a foundation on which a thriving economy can continue to be built into the future. That population increase can be accommodated within existing settlements, including cities, towns and villages, while the economic and social strengths and resources of rural areas are also promoted. Completely new cities or towns are not required. (iv) Planning Ireland needs to renew, consolidate and develop its existing cities, towns and villages – i.e. keeping them as physically compact and public transport friendly as possible and minimising urban sprawl, while also achieving a high quality of design in new development and refurbishment. Urban land needs to be used carefully, sensitively and efficiently – with the aim of reducing dereliction and under-utilisation. Where greenfield development is necessary it should take place through the logical extension of existing cities, towns and villages. (v) Implementation Policies and programmes will be consistent with the NSS where they seek to enhance and build up economic and social activity within the national framework provided by the Strategy. Policies based on an unstructured, scattered approach to public investment and the promotion of economic activity would not be consistent with the NSS. In essence, balanced regional development means Developing the full potential of each area to contribute to the optimal performance of the State as a whole – economically, socially and environmentally. The key concepts for this process are set out in Box 1.1. 1 This refers to the area including Dublin City and all of the Counties of Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, Fingal, Kildare, Meath, South Dublin and Wicklow. The National Spatial Strategy | People, Places and Potential 11
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Appendices
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