The Kerryman

Mayor of Kerry Ned O'Sullivan has defended the role of local councillors in the planning process and hit out at architects, claiming that "they have an awful lot to answer for". Mayor O'Sullivan launched a scathing attack on architects after an online centre for architecture found that over 55 per cent of people in Kerry feel that the planning system is in chaos and should be supervised by a government department. These findings come from a poll held on the internet by Irish-architecture.com, after county councillors in Kerry unanimously decided to delist an early 19th-century house at Valentia – against the advice of planners and consultants. Irish-architecture.com asked readers: "Does Kerry have a planning system?" and published their response on September 27 last.