Sir, -_ On our first ever visit to Ireland recently, we toured Kerry, and were struck by the mass of new domestic building anywhere and everywhere. Planning permission, it seems, is a mere formality.
I am interested particularly, perhaps, as an architect and former planning inspector. In The Irish Times recently I read Fergal MacCabe's views about "awful bungalows". How right he is! - Yours, etc.,
Frank Readhead, Swatham Prior, Cambridge, England.