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THE BUILDERS BEHIND the Adamstown development say that building is back on track.
The town, just south of Lucan, was the first of the so-called Strategic Development Zones (SDZ) which benefitted from fast-track planning – and the first ‘new town’ planned since Shannon was created in 1982 in Clare.
The €2 billion town was planned to house 20,000 people who could enjoy 70 acres of parkland, sports facilities, a rail station and multiple schools.
But despite the fanfare Adamstown has been something of a stop-start development.
In 2014, with just 1,600 of the 9,000 planned homes built, authorities wanted to kickstart construction.
Developer Castlethorn has managed to secure funding over the last 18 months, leading to a resumption of much of the building. This is allied with €20 million from the Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund.
The allocation includes funding for a new road linking Adamstown to Celbridge Road and the N4/Leixlip Interchange which will facilitate housing supply at Adamstown while helping reduce the over-reliance of traffic on the heavily congested Newcastle Road.
New developments
The funding has been used to build a number of new developments in the town, with 150 homes in Alderlie all selling out and another estate – St Helen’s- expected to come on the market next month.
St Helen’s will be 140 home, with Somerton, which consists of 246 larger trade-up family homes, the next phase of the development, having just received planning permission.
In total, Castlethorn says they are looking at delivering over 500 homes in the short to medium-term – with a pipeline of additional developments due to come on stream after that.
They say that life in the town has been made easier by the opening of the Phoenix Park tunnel, which gives the town’s train station a 27-minute straight route to the Docklands Station.
“Castlethorn secured a new funding arrangement in December 2015, had completed full planning and was building new homes in its Alderlie development by June 2016 – first time buyers and families started moving into the first 140 homes this month. That’s only 16 months from funding to occupation, a significant achievement in the development of new homes in Ireland.”
While some of the planned amenities – a cinema and swimming pool – are not on the horizon, a community centre is “on the way”, the developers say.
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Rest in Peace..
With no disrespect to the deceased or his family, garda forensic team only need to see the video… Brush up and open the road….its obvious to a blind man what happened. RIP
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With no disrespect to the deceased, he could have killed someone else, absolutely shocking driving down the fast lane of a motorway in the wrong direction
It was obviously a mistake.
@Shane McGrath: was it? I’d find it hard to believe that he could make that same mistake for so long he seemed to be going down the motorway for a long time nevermind all the signs Saying do not enter when entering the On ramp if it was a 20 year old young lad who did the same there wouldn’t be this kind of sympathy.
@James: This happened to me before on the M9. Met an elderly man driving towards us while we were in the ‘over taking/ fast lane’ – thankfully we noticed it in time and there was nothing on our inside so that we managed to avoid the man. It was terrifying, rang the guards and alls they could say was ‘Yes we are aware of that’.
RIP to the poor man.
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That can quite easily happen anyone especially on that part of the road, the brutal signage and the maze of roundabouts on the slip roads is atrocious. There is very often roadworks that regularly has you driving in the other side too.
I nearly got caught out coming out McDonalds last year late at night when signs from roadworks that had finished were not removed.
@Da Dell: they drove by plenty of cars heading the other direction and should have pulled into the hard shoulder of it was a mistake, horrible anyway for everyone involved
Terrible for the mans family but it’s happening too often on that road.
Twice I’ve been driving to Dublin in the outside lane and you see a dot coming towards you …it takes seconds to realise its a car on the wrong side of the Motorway and you move in pretty quickly and hope anyone behind you see’s the car.It’s usually an elderly man on his own to be honest
The woman in the red car got out pretty quickly after the crash
@silveryD: I genuinely don’t know how she managed to get out of the car that quickly it definitely saved her life thats for sure.
For the frequency that this happens , as we do seem to see rarely byt enough to come up with something. and seeing all the cars trying to warn people on the opposite side of the road, we should come up with some universal warning like , if someone holds their horn down this means to tell the other side of the road to pull in.
@Roisin Brennan: the thing is, once you realise where do you go?
Wonder if this man’s doctor gave him okay recently to have licence. Obviously he had some form of dementia.
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