Former Green Party politician Joe Corr has built a successful career as a planning consultant. Now he’s in the eye of a storm over plans for a new terminal at Dublin Airport
‘After leaving politics, what I did was to go back to college. I didn’t want people thinking I could get something over the line with a nod and a wink.’ Pictured, Joe Corr, MD of planning at CWPA Planning and Architecture in Swords. Photo: Steve Humphreys
Town planning, says Joe Corr, fresh from a recent victory in Ireland’s ever- testing planning system, was once an Olympic event.
The co-founder of CWPA Planning & Architecture has a mischievous grin and likely does not see himself as the planning world’s answer to Daniel Wiffen. But, sitting in his sun-filled office in Swords, Co Dublin, he is upbeat.
