Welcome by Padraig Culbert CEO Tipperary Institute

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Session 1

• Welcome by Padraig Culbert CEO Tipperary
  Institute
• Opening of Conference Maire Hoctor TD
• A Vision for Rural Development
• Gerry Kearney, Secretary General, Dept of
  Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs

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Integrated Area Planning

• A Collaborative approach to decision making
• Introduction
• Catherine Corcoran

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Tipperary Institute

• Tipperary Institute (TI) was established in 1999
  as Irelands only institute exclusively devoted
  to rural development
• Academic Courses
• Outreach work
• Research work
• for clients in the Community,
• Business and State sectors

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Rural Planning-Why?

• Growth producing uneven outcomes for certain
  areas/groups
• Certain Villages/DEDs growing/others contracting
• Lack of services in many rural areas
• Uneven provision
• Many requests for
• assistance

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Many requests for assistance

• Crusheen/Ballinruan, Co Clare
• Ferbane, Co Offaly
• Eyrecourt, Co Galway
• Kinvara, Co. Galway
• Hacketstown, Co Carlow
• Kilmacthomas, Co Waterford

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2 Types of Rural?

• Urban Fringe
• High demand for housing
• Commuter culture
• Demand on services such as schools/clinics
• Pressure on local infrastructure
• Traffic control
• Integration of new residents

• Areas in Decline
• Population decline
• Loss of young people
• Lack employment
• Service closure
• Age-dependency
• Lack of housing development
• Lack of investment

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Rural Planning-Why?

• Breakdown in trust/relationships
• Clash of visions
• Planners/State policy-Concentration of population
• Rural/farming lobby-Opposed to concentration?

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Rural Planning-Why?

• ?What are the rural areas for?
• ?Who decides?
• ? How are these decisions/non-decisions made?

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Rural Planning-Why?

• Lack of shared Vision
• The planning process lacks mechanisms for
  addressing this issue
• Communities asked to participate in consultative
  processes when decisions/visions are already set

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What is IAP?

• IAP a partnership approach to local development
• Developing shared vision
• Varying interests
• Common cause

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What is IAP?

• Empowering
• Practical Participatory
• Process
• Local people and experts together
• collect, analyse compile information
• Developing skills Developing structures
• Prepare and implement
• An Inclusive and multifaceted plan

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Principles

• The plan will be developed using an action
  planning model
• to enable the local community to identify,
  analyse and address the needs in their community.
  
• build local capacity and equip community members
  with the knowledge, skills and motivation
• mobilise community, state and private effort in
  addressing the development of their area.
• Integrated area planning assumes a commitment to
  working in an inclusive and participatory way
• diverse, inclusive and committed to a partnership
  approach to local development.

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Principles

• The process should take an integrated approach to
  sustainable planning
• An integrated development plan should incorporate
  a balance between social, economic and
  environmental needs and measures.
• The process will endeavour to ensure that the
  outcomes are equitable, realistic and
  sustainable.
• Development plans should be clear and accessible.
  
• The process should be committed to ongoing
  community communication.
• As each stage of the process is advanced, regular
  communication will be required with the local
  community and the agencies involved.

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Principles

• The planning process should seek to develop
  structures for implementation.
• to engage state agencies fully at local and
  county level in inputting to the plan
• taking responsibility for relevant parts of its
  implementation in partnership with the local
  community.
• should seek to develop clear visions, goals and
  objectives, with actions clearly linked to the
  attainment of agreed outcomes.

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Participation, Collaboration and the Development
of Rural areas

• ?What are the rural areas for?
• ?Who decides?
• ? How are these decisions/non-decisions made?