A Place for Home (Rural Spatial Planning) EE19 Ep1

Duncan Stewart looks at the social implications of Ireland's extraordinary number of one-off homes across Ireland’s countryside and searches for sustainable solutions to Ireland's housing problems.

Ireland is one of the most sprawled out countries in all of Europe and that unique settlement pattern has brought with it unintended consequences for life in rural Ireland.

The environmental, economic and social impact of one-off homes is unfortunately disproportionately large, from the cost of maintaining roads and providing services like post, broadband and waste management to the lack of transport options for our ageing rural dwellers, which can lead to isolation. Despite all we now know about the unsustainable nature of this housing pattern, it still continues. In this episode Duncan meets with planners, architects, rural dwellers and policy makers to ask what the legacy of Ireland’s one-off houses are, and what the rural communities of the future could look like with modern, clustered living solutions- which are already starting to emerge.

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