The role of the local representative is being eroded by pre- planning clinics according to a long standing member of Tipperary County Council.
Fine Gael’s Michael Fitzgerald raised the issue at this weeks meeting of the local authority.
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Director of Planning Marcus O’Connor defended the clinics saying they were necessary in order to eliminate a backlog of applications and that to date they had received a positive reaction.
However Councillor Fitzgerald feels they are impersonal and lack privacy.