More spending on homes design urged by RIAI

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / November 06 1999: More spending on homes design urged by RIAI

The average 'spend' on design for many speculative housing estates around the country is a mere Ł400 per house about the cost of a decent washing machine, according to a leading architect. 'This is incredible and no longer acceptable,' Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland president Eoin O Cofaigh told a major seminar in Dublin yesterday.

Addressing an RIAI/Irish Planning Institute seminar on Sustainable Development, Mr O Cofaigh said that higher density will need more design and better design if it is not to be a total disaster.

'Good design should be rewarded, and bad design should not be allowed through the system,' he declared. 'At the moment, the planning system is unfortunately neutral too often as regards quality and the planners working in development control in our local authorities are over-worked.'

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