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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL is taking enforcement procedures against Dunnes Stores on Grafton Street for erecting gates outside its front entrance.
Earlier this month, homelessness action groups expressed their outrage at the construction of the gate.
Cairdeas, an organisation which helps feed the homeless, previously used the area in front of the store to set up a food stall.
Rough sleepers
The group believes the barriers were put up to prevent homeless people from sleeping there and called for the gates to be taken down.
The team said it also asked Dunnes Stores if it could be allocated a key for the gate and be responsible for the area, but the request was refused.
A letter seen by TheJournal.ie from Dublin City Council confirms that enforcement procedures have been initiated in accordance with Part VII of the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2015.
A statement from Dublin City Council said its planning enforcement section received a complaint of an unauthorised development at Dunnes Stores on Grafton Street on 5 September 2016.
It said the complaint related to the erection of gates at the entrance.
A file was opened and a warning letter has [been] issued to Dunnes Stores in accordance with the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended).
An investigation is underway and the area planning inspector has inspected the premises.
A period of four weeks will be allowed for a response to the warning letter after which time a decision will be made on enforcement.
Sinn Féin Councillor for South Dublin County Council Enda Fanning said:”As Dublin City Council has now commenced enforcement proceedings, I think Dunnes Stores should do the right thing and remove the gates immediately.”
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Goldman Sachs – I thought they already owned everything, – well blow me down…
Now the budget priorities make sense, leaving the low vat rate in place reflects the ownership rate by the big investor firms. There was silly me, wondering how the small hotel and restaurant businesses managed to get into the governments ear so well.
I’ve never stayed in a Travelodge before but ya can be Damn sure I’ll never stay in one now!
Peter Sunderland must be proud of his new acquisition
This is not good news.
Goldman Sachs is a vulture capitalist firm engaging in the most appalling style of exploitative cancer capitalism,. #
Plus it had its evil paws all over the 2008 financial crash.
@stiofain. I’m so socialist but I agree with you regarding goldman dachshund 100% I’m no socialist with it agree with regarding Goldman Sachs 100% Goldman Sachs 100%
Predictive text and a new phone
a couple of the Dublin travel lodges would make nice 6storeis apartments blocks.
Great, now Peter Sutherland has somewhere to house all the migrants he wants us to take.
@Eamon Mac Gowan:
Great point, that was an angle I didn’t see.
Travelodge – one to avoid in the future. Goldman Sachs’ new Vulturelodges!
Hiliary Clinton is giving a 20 min speech in the conference room for 500k
Does this mean they’ll be able too afford to put plug sockets actually beside the beds in future ?
Interesting… I don’t suppose they’ll be installing the private wealth management floor carpeting in them.
Business I know is leasing property to one of the budget mass hotel chains in London, wouldn’t think so but the returns are actually a lot superior and more secure to that of a fancier or more prestigious hotel group.
Sell sell sell… FG still in …
Yea, FG sold a private hotel chain.
@(((Jason))): with the added benefit of a 9% VAT rate to bolster profit margins, great little country to do business
Tifco oh great, they will hire more Eastern Europeans & Asians to spit in your room glasses to make for a quicker clean time and outsource all the Irish workers who actually take care and do it right.
@Colleen McGovern: Racist much?
@Colleen. Not nice and not true.
@Phil Blanc:
We do have a right to our own country you know, our ancestors did fight for the resources of this island for us, their descendants.
Arah ffs!! Evil evil evil.
Great news. Goldman will be able to provide a much need cash injection into the business. No doubt they spot an opportunity to invest and expand.
The best handle on Goldman Sachs agenda is from David Icke. I know he’s a nutter in lots of respects, but his take on these “Rothchild Zionists” is very very revealing. Check it out with an open mind…
Don’t these greedy userers “own” enough already?
Business does business with other business – grand.
Goldman Sachs – ZOMG ITS A CONSPIRACY!!! PETER SUTHERLAND ENDA KENNY DENNIS O’BRIEN!!!!
Welcome to the journal.
Always coming to the defence of marginalised groups, aren’t you Phil? This time its a banking outfit so corrupt they make Anglo Irish look like saints in comparison, headed up by a man who arrogantly claimed they were doing “God’s work”.
The yanks will soon own more of ireland than the Irish,
Well there’s one hotel I won’t be staying in
Goldman Sachs has to pay $5.1 billion to settle a lawsuit related to its handling of mortgage-backed securities in the USA. Money talks.
Yet another story about a foreign company saving the asses of the group that “privately” run this franchise and hire Irish people to “work” in them. Well done U.S.
Next the US and EU will become a common market as that is what CETA, TTIP and TiSA Agreement is all about, the rape of our assets thanks to the IMF.
I am going to Appeals Tribunal soon after 4 years waiting for it against Travelodge Ireland. They have unfairly dismissed my partner after she said she is pregnant! I hope all newspapers across Europe will write down about this when it has come to an end in court. They will have a great FREE advert from us.
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