Building regulations need 'complete overhaul'

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2003 / February 19 2003: Building regulations need 'complete overhaul'

If there is an upside to "bungalow bliss" it is that, in the "mad rush" for housing in rural areas over the past 40 years, Irish villages and small towns have been spared the worst ravages of poor development. According to Mr Mike Shanahan of MSA Architects in Cork, the "upside" of recent decades of building in the countryside has been that small towns and villages remain "pretty much intact". Mr Shanahan will tell a conference on rural housing and development today that building regulations are in need of a complete overhaul to reduce the negative impact of new developments, particularly in infill developments.

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