An Taisce challenges expert on rural plans

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2002 / April 29 2002: An Taisce challenges expert on rural plans

An Taisce has challenged archaeologist Dr Seamus Caulfield about his comments on the rural planning issue. Mr Ian Lumley, heritage officer of An Taisce, was responding to a recent report in this column, in which Dr Caulfield called for the organisation to be de-listed and challenged its use of statistics on housing development. Dr Caulfield, who is best known for his work on the Ceide Fields in north Mayo, has been accused by Mr Lumley of being "anti-planning" and of "advocating the sociology of the 19th-century potato patch" to dictate contemporary housing location.

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