What we've done

Colin Buchanan has completed a wide range of public and private sector planning projects.

Development plans, local area plans and regeneration

  • Omagh: Towards a City Vision 2025 – Award Winner at IPI National Planning Award 2010
  • Lower Shankill Community Plan, Belfast
  • Callan & Castlecomer Local Area Plan, Strategic Environmental Assessment & Appropriate Assessment, Co. Kilkenny
  • Kinsale Town Development Plan 2009 - 2015

Evidential studies for plans and strategies

  • A Strategy for the Provision of Community, Social and Recreational Infrastructure for Cork City South Environs
  • Housing Strategies for Kilkenny & Galway County Development Plans
  • Clonmel Urban Framework Plan, South Tipperary

Major projects

  • Dundalk Retail Hub – Empowering the Gateway City
  • Gortlee House and Town Park Masterplan, Letterkenny

Travel and transport

  • DART Underground Business Case
  • Port of Waterford: Rail Freight
  • NUIM Mobility Study – Smarter Travel in Action
  • Irish Bus Efficiency Review
  • NTA Dublin Transport Strategy
  • National Cycle Policy
  • Integrated Transport Strategy for Derry~Londonderry
  • Belfast Metropolitan Area Plan Public Inquiry

Tourism development

  • Mourne Coastal Route Tourist Signing Study
  • Carlisle Interpretive Framework
  • Craigavon Tourism Development and Action Plan 2009 – 2011
  • Causeway Coastal Route: Technical Study
  • R477 Burren Coastal Route, Co. Clare
  • Glin Development Framework, Co. Limerick

Development guidance

  • Kilkenny Rural Design Guide
  • NDA Booklet for Planners on Universal Design
  • Derry City Conservation Area Guidelines

Heritage planning

  • Glaslough Village and Castle Leslie Estate Development Framework
  • Blackwater Heritage Trail, Monaghan and Armagh