Curbs are urged on oversized gaudy houses

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 1999 / November 15 1999: Curbs are urged on oversized gaudy houses

A law lecturer campaigning against the proliferation of "oversized, gaudy" houses in rural areas has urged the Minister for the Environment to draw up national guidelines to regulate the design of new homes. Ms Sara Dillon, a law lecturer at University College Dublin and a member of An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment, said tourists did not find Ireland pretty any more, as the landscape was being ruined by "a shocking planning free-for-all". "Ireland is the only country in Europe where people can build any old thing in any old field. There are no rules to protect the countryside," she complained.

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