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A SOUTH DUBLIN project which would build 597 social and affordable homes is one step closer to development after the council approved to transfer part of the land at the site to the Land Development Agency.
This approval from Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council allows the project to move to tender preparation in order to get a contractor at the start of next year to build the homes.
Planning permission was secured for the project in July. It proposes to build 200 social homes and almost 400 affordable homes to rent or buy.
The proposed site is located at Shanganagh, Shankill, south Dublin and the council will transfer part of its land at Shanganagh.
Any proposal to dispose of, otherwise known as transferring, council land or property must be approved by elected council members.
The DLR council on Monday voted to approve the transfer of these lands to the Land Development Agency (LDA).
The LDA said on Twitter that it welcomes the decision.
The agency said this development is the largest social and affordable scheme with planning permission in Ireland at the moment.
Progress so far
In July, both the council and LDA said they had made significant progress on the detail and design of the scheme, which will see 51 terraced and semi-detached houses consisting of 21 two-beds and 30 three-beds.
The development will also include 546 apartments of two four-beds, 99 three-beds, 203 two-beds, 165 one-beds and 29 studios.
Overall, it will be made up of 200 social homes, 91 homes that will be available for purchase under an affordable purchase scheme and 306 affordable cost-rental homes.
The planned site occupies nine hectares adjacent to Shanganagh Castle, Shanganagh Park and Castle Farm, and will be within 10 minutes’ walk of the proposed Dart station at Woodbrook.
TheJournal.ie previously asked what price range would be termed “affordable” in the development.
In response, an LDA spokesperson said: “Details on rent levels and pricing have yet to be fully determined, but we are confident this scheme will provide an attractive option for potential residents relative to prevailing market rates.”
With reporting by Sean Murray
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5%. Who makes this suff up! More like 25% at least.
@Cars: Facts mostly.
@Cars: it’s a rolling year stat….. It’s up 18.4% from January 2021. Maybe that’s what you refer to. Google “CSO CPI inflation calculator”….. An eye opening tool
@Daniel Roche: skewed statistics more like. If only it was 5%, that’s fairytale stuff to feed to the general population. The current government (and previous) failed miserably to deliver. Their only option to stand any chance of remaining in power will be to try indoctrinate the citizens with complete BS to paint a fictional picture of delivering.
Ii’ a lot more than that, grocery prices have soared.
5% ? put 2 if front or the 5 and it’s correct
Diesel gone up over 10c in Circle K in two weeks in Tallaght
@Eddienowy Byrne: same here in Wicklow
@Eddienowy Byrne: just in time now that the government are putting on 5c on Friday on diesel and 7c on petrol .. they hate giving people a break
@Gavin Kelly: That would imply that a break has ever been given.
@Gavin Kelly: Especially handy when they can claim their fuel and expenses.
@Gavin Kelly: That’s a lie and you know it,I’m not agreeing with it but at least tell the truth,that is a major problem and why people will vote FF or FG,they can’t trust the other side,better the devil you know, maybe tell the truth.
@George Vladisavljevic: You know the old saying ” All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal”, Animal Farm.
5% and the rest. They having a laugh
Fuel rocketing back up as well since they put taxes back on ….this will lead to the increase of prices on everything
Full shopping bags are down 50%! And the Price has increased by 25%!
That’s just fact.
Who ever compiled this,please let us all know where you shop.
@Thomas: I shop in German supermarket and the numbers look about right to me, for the period over the last 12 months.
Definitely not 25% or even +40% as claimed here.
But maybe it’s my shopping habit – very little processed food on much meat either.
@Wolfgang Bonow: me also,the numbers may not be as high as 25 percent in some cases,but nothing is near as low as 5 percent.
@Wolfgang Bonow: even the German supermarkets have increased prices big time way more than the 5% spoke abouts.
They can no way still call themselves discount supermarkets
@Wolfgang Bonow: I do too.
But I noticed bread had increased in price by 17% between my last 2 visits.
These so called “journslist” from the journal printing lies and spreading falsehoods for the irish government..
Shame on you all at the journal,
@Adam: I agree,the authors of this article obviously know this is way down on the reality,but go ahead and publish it anyway.
Absolute rubbish. Inflation is really running at about 43% easily. I haven’t changed my spending at all and unfortunately for banks their apps are the real key to finding out just how bad inflation really is. My app had my spend at 43% higher than this time last year and I’ve actually cut back on certain things.
5%??? try 15 or 20% with some of the price increases ive seen lately……greed greed and more greed
They will most definitely need revision,
Brown Thomas getting a Lidl ‘middle isle’ this week apparently
It can’t be that number…. Most of the prices have increased by 30 to 50 percent… That are lying.
5%? Do they take us for fools or what…And as a lot of comments state the fuel increases will add to inflation even more, not to mention the carbon tax coming in the budget.
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