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PLANS TO CONSTRUCT a €475 million redevelopment of DIT’s former Kevin Street Campus in Dublin have secured the green light.
This follows An Bord Pleanála granting a 10 year planning permission to Shane Whelan’s Westridge Real Estate for the development of 53,110 sq ft of office accommodation in two 11-storey blocks alongside 299 build to rent apartments across three buildings of up to 14 storeys in height.
Westridge acquired the 3.57 acre site for €140 million in August 2019 and a report lodged with the plans by EY estimates that the total output that the redevelopment will generate over 10 years is €7.67 billion.
Dublin City Council granted planning permission for the scheme last year but the decision was appealed by eight parties – the Residents of Camden Row; Kevin Street Apartment CLG; New Bride St Residents Group; Ruairi O Cuiv and Jennifer Traynor; Gerard Doyle, Bernie Devlin and others; Chevron Nolan, Essam Bishara
and Eilis Brennan.
In its decision, the appeals board has ordered the removal of one floor from the proposed five storey Block C.
The board concluded that the scheme “would not seriously injure the residential or visual amenities of the area”.
The board granted planning permission after the inspector in the case stated that the principle of the mixed use scheme is acceptable and appropriate for this brownfield city site.
Recently elected TD Ivana Bacik lodged an observation to An Bord Pleanála with party colleagues in support of the local residents’ appeals.
A Senator at the time of lodging the observation, the Labour Party deputy told the appeals board that the planned scheme “is over-scaled and over-massed”.
The observation also stated that “we remain concerned that this proposed development will have a deleterious effect on the quality of life for residents in the locality”.
The Bacik observation stated that “while we are very much in favour of increasing the housing stock in our city to alleviate our housing and homelessness crisis, we remain concerned that the proposed housing mix in this application will not contribute to the creation of sustainable communities in the area”.
The observation states that there remains multiple concerns over the scheme and “that the proposed height and design of the development will have a stark visual impact on the area”.
Former Environment Editor with The Irish Times Frank McDonald also lodged an observation in support of the objectors’ views.
McDonald told the appeals board that “the height, scale and mass of the proposed development would fundamentally change the character of the area leaving existing residents to live cheek by jowl with this imposing representation of the ‘New Dublin’.
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Brave hotel…
Much lower unemployment rate at 36% than our indigenous “minority”…maybe we could swap?
Ah come on. Photos!!!!
Mister gypsey? Ill be entering my boss so..
Gypsy *
So if we have ‘travellers’ have we any gypsies in Ireland ?
There the same thing
So why don’t they call themselves gypsies and be proud ?
You will have to ask them that
Because we are not the same .gypsy and travellers come from completely different backgrounds
I’m not an expert on this…. But I believe the Roma Community merged with the Travelling Community. However, the Travelling Community is by blood predominantly Irish. Being that the Travelling Community is a closed society, through the years they kept their coupling within the community.
So today, in Ireland the Roma Community and the Travelling Community are two distinct groups with some similarities.
Because they arent Gypsies.
Irish Travellers are a distinct Irish ethnic minority, who separated from the settled Irish community at least 1000 years ago; the claim was made that they are distinct from the settled community as Icelanders are from Norwegians.[25] Even though all families claim ancient origins, not all families of Irish Travellers date back to the same point in time; some families adopted Traveller customs centuries ago, while others did so more recently.[26] It is unclear how many Irish Travellers would be included in this distinct ethnic group at least from a genetic perspective.
Irish Travelers are Irish!
I am not so sure 1000 years is enough for any sort of genetic variation, specially considering that there would be cases where this separation you speak of would break.
“I am not so sure 1000 years is enough for any sort of genetic variation”
Your concerns have been noted.
We don’t have travellers left here, this generation are sponging good for nothings who use the traveller title and name as an excuse to be a scourge on society.
If they separated from the community years ago, why do they take our dole, rent allowance etc. without giving anything back but sh1te to the community ?
This should be good…
Pikeys either way
Jaysus! Imagine the smell of piss at it!!
Lovely stuff.. they won a weekend in a layby
Wonder will the bar be open?
A Paegent, judged by people not from their community buy from the fashion and media circles? Why was their no educator on the panel? Sounds like there young men and women are being manipulated yet again.
There, their and they’re.
So when are the Mister and Miss Traveller contests starting?
Neglected minority???!!! Would you ever go away and F_ck yourself. You separated yourselves from society because you can’t be anyway civilised!
If it doesn’t make …… Follow the money. Someone is profiting from this.
……..make sense……. Sorry.
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