The Development of Planning Systems in Northern Ireland 1900 - 1975

Abstract

Understanding of planning in Northern Ireland requires an insight into the history of the province. It could be argued that the present, the future and the past are rooted in the complex history of Northern Ireland's planning strategy. Socially, culturally and economically, the present tapestry has been woven from the plantation period. The plantation period established demographic patterns, which are still observable today. With the plantation came the revolutionary transformer of the landscape - the town; which was to change not only settlement patterns but the minds of the indigenous and the settlers alike.