Walking the city streets you might not realise it, but the city of Dublin is meticulously planned.  The city is the product of a City Plan that details exactly what can be built, in what place, and to what standard.  A new plan is released every six years. The first one, said Richard Shakespeare, DCC’s assistant chief executive with responsibility for planning, was an A5 booklet, “and now it’s a tome. The 2016 plan was a tome, and the new plan will be a slightly larger tome.” The latest plan will run to more than 1,200 pages, including appendices.  The…

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