The Irish Times

"Naturally, the Adamstown plan has launched a raft of opposition in the wider Lucan area... what people fear more than anything else is that this plan will translate itself into more than 12,000 cars." Landmark modern buildings, roads designed as streets rather than traffic conduits and urban parks instead of "the usual formless prairies" - as Eddie Conroy, South Dublin's deputy county architect, calls them - are among the key elements of the planning blueprint for Adamstown.The local area plan for this 500-acre swathe of land south of Lucan is unusual for two reasons: it was produced entirely 'in-house' by one of the few local authorities to retain its own functioning forward planning unit and, heresy of heresies, it involved collaboration between planners and architects.