5. A new 20-storey building is being built in the city centre where the highest building is currently fi ve storeys tall.
6. An old hospital that was once a famine workhouse is being demolished to make way for a new hospital building.
7. A shopping centre on the outskirts of the town is to be doubled in size.
8. A motorway is to be constructed through a natural oak forest. Some of the trees being cleared are over 200 years old.
Exercise 49B Designing a sustainable development Key Skills
Success criteria
Read the information about a development proposal. A Development Proposal
I can produce a report that is sustainable, profi table and supported.
The site is one acre in size and is in the heart of the town. At the moment, it is used as a car park. The houses of local people run along two sides. Many older people live here, but some houses have recently been bought by people working in the centre of the town and completely renovated. A third side faces onto a busy road, taking traffi c into the town square. The fi nal side is taken up by what may be a part of the old town walls and part of the old Church of Ireland church, St Catherine’s.
Enhanced Developments, a large development company, bought the site for €1 million and applied to the county council to build a fi ve-storey building on the site and to widen the streets. The proposed building included a supermarket, an off licence, offi ces and apartments. However, several objections were raised concerning the development of the site and planning permission was refused.