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New Town (1970 – 1985) In the mid 1960’s the Irish Government commissioned the well known British planner Myles Wright to devise an expansion plan for Dublin City. His strategy, which was broadly adopted in 1972, was the creation of four new towns to the west of Dublin City, Blanchardstown, Lucan, Clondalkin and Tallaght. Myles Wright Plan ...
Apr 10, 2009 · FOUR NEW TOWNS WEST OF DUBLIN. Wright’s plan for city problems. The first part of the Final Report and Advisory Plan for the Dublin Region, published today, describes a £1,000 million programme ...
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The framework for the long term expansion of Dublin was derived broadly from Myles Wright's 1967 report on The Dublin Region which was implemented through the Dublin County Development Plan, 1971. The aim here was to build four ‘New Towns' to the west of Dublin - Tallaght, Lucan, Clondalkin, and Blanchardstown - as well as facilitating ...
In 1972, his report was adopted for the Co Dublin development plan and work began on creating the new suburb. Until then, Tallaght had been a village with little more than the Main Street, a ...
Drawing upon Wright 's preliminary report, the Draft Dublin Development Plan (1 967) recognised that 'there is sufficient infonnation on the potential areas for development to indicate that the major expansion must be westwards' (Dublin County Council, 1967, 5).
It remained a rural village until the 1960s when the Irish government commissioned town planner Myles Wright to devise an expansion plan for Dublin City. The Myles Wright Plan which was broadly adopted resulted in the creation of the three new towns of Tallaght, Clondalkin/Lucan and Blanchardstown to the west of the City.
Mar 27, 1999 · Myles Wright, as the saying goes, was miles wrong. The Liverpool professor of town planning gave Dublin its first regional plan in 1965 and that, in turn, led to the development of the three ...
