I think it's about time that major airports, ports, railways and roads are removed from the discretion of local authorities.
Yes
One off housing in the countryside is generally a terrible idea and just creating extra problems down the line, due to things like car dependency, social isolation, the cost per household of providing utilities. As an example, if you've got 200M between houses, it's much, much more expensive per house to provide and maintain electricity, water, sewerage, roads, connectivity*, emergency services and social care than say even a suburb with houses every 20 metres and orders of magnitude more expensive per housing unit than say an apartment block.
I wouldnt have much issue in land swaps. Give Farmers kids a site in the local village. In return the farmer surrenders to rights of way or land to allow for road widening, Greenway or what have you without a CPO process. The farmers would generally do better out of this but over time society would benefit
We have a housing crisis here, if people with their own sites whant to build let them build
You obviously aren't grasping the locations I talking about and have you mind made up it's on the side of a mountain
Who subsidises it and how
Peopl building one off houses are taxpayers too and pay more that enough themselves to get services on site if they aren't there
Well, yes, that's a problem too, Ireland has a massive car dependency issue.
I listed them and you'll note I specifically excluded refuse for that very reason.
Other tax payers. Health is one area where the extra costs are very obvious, e.g. sending an ambulance to the outskirts of Kilnamartyra is a hell of a lot more expensive than from one part of Cork city to another. Or if you have an elderly person on Home Support Service, it's going to be a lot more expensive for the HSE to provide that support to someone in that example of the outskirts of Kilnamatyra than Glasheen.
Oh so it's the cost is the problem? Fair enough.
They usually don't have to pay the ongoing cost of maintenance besides in circumstances like a rural electricity surcharge. They certainly don't have to pay higher water charges if they are connected to the mains, but the cost of maintenance per household is significantly higher for rural areas. You need hundreds of metres, per household, in urban settings, it's tens of metres. Cost of maintenance is related to amount of infrastructure per unit.
How do you think water and elkectricty gets from village to village?
So close the village and every other village and get everyone to move back in to the city where they are no houses available
We don't have water charges
I'm very aware that Ireland doesn't have water charges, which is why I said the extra cost gets borne by the tax payer.
