Towards balanced regional attractiveness in Ireland
Enhancing the delivery of the National Planning Framework
Ireland is highly centralised and fast growing, creating co-ordination challenges
in terms of delivering key investments and in key policy areas like transport, housing
and education. Actors across levels of government recognise a need for a more coordinated
approach to the delivery of the National Planning Framework, the principal spatial
planning strategy of Project Ireland 2040, which includes also the National Development
Plan (public investment).The report has three objectives which ultimately aim to
support more balanced regional outcomes in Ireland: i) to clarify the gaps in terms
of regional attractiveness across and within Ireland’s regions, including in terms
of population and investment attraction; ii) to assess the ability for the National
Planning Framework – in its current form – to address these gaps, and iii) to consider
what multi-level governance reforms and attractiveness policies can be introduced
or scaled to generate more territorially-balanced development.