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AN TAISCE HAS told Dublin City Council that the building where James Joyce’s The Dead was set “is of too great a cultural heritage importance for conversion to multiple apartments”.
That is according to An Taisce’s Dublin City Planning Officer Kevin Duff as part of an An Taisce’s objection concerning plans by Brimwood UC to convert the property at 15 Usher’s Island in Dublin 8 into 10 apartments.
In An Taisce’s submission, Duff has told the Council the return of “this nationally-important house” to functioning use, and “the arresting of any further deterioration in its fabric, is urgently needed”.
He adds, however, that the proposal for residential use as ten private apartments would be wholly appropriate.
He said: “Refusal is therefore recommended in order to find a way forward and secure the future of this key cultural building of Dublin, bearing in mind for example the successful and award-winning museum and cultural attraction developed by the City Council at large Georgian townhouse 14 Henrietta Street.”
Duff states: “No 15 Usher’s Island is one of the most significant townhouses to survive on the Dublin Quays, both because of its location and context; it is like a Merrion Square-quality house on the Quays, and as one of the few surviving quayside houses to retain its front-door and basement arrangement.”
He said that the proposal for conversion to a high number – 10 – of apartments would be “wholly inappropriate and destructive to its architectural and cultural character.”
Duff has told the Council that 15 Usher’s Island is of international cultural significance because of its location of the setting of the James Joyce short story, The Dead.
He said: “The proposal is in serious conflict with established policy and provisions for the maintenance of the special character of protected structures.”
Duff describes 15 Usher’s Island as “a handsome three-bay house of the late-Georgian period, with four-storey redbrick elevation over raised basement, and columned stone doorcase. The interior retains a good degree of refined early-19th century detail. It is a Protected Structure and is located within a designated Conservation Area.”
In a planning report lodged with Dublin City Council by planning consultant, Kevin Hughes on behalf of Brimwood points out that the use of the building as residential is more suited than a tourist hostel for which the previous permission was granted.
He contends that it is not feasible to return the building to one singular house, however the provision of 10 apartments is considered appropriate.
Hughes states that the applicant and design team “are aware of the significance of the building and have gone to great lengths to protect and improve the historic fabric of the building”.
A decision is due on the application next month.
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She is a very qualified lady
@Trump24: Better than Gaetz in terms of qualifications anyway, let’s hope she’s not as mental as him or her Don.
@Trump24: And no doubt you claimed that Kamala Harris was unqualified.
Fantastic appointment :)
@Brendan O’Brien: Well to be President she definitely was not qualified as we all know
@Trump24: Attorney general is an important position too, and Harris has much more experience.
Of course Trump is not qualified to be president at all.
@Brendan O’Brien: keep some leftie tears…..4yrs us a long stint to be wailing, lol
@Trump24: Like Trump was qualified lol!
@Brendan O’Brien: Well, most Americans disagree with you.
@Brendan O’Brien: trump is excellently qualified especially considering what the left has done to the great man. Greatest comeback in all of history. We are truly blessed to have such a wonderful individual as leader of the free world :)
@Brendan O’Brien: the only qualification needed seems to be an Emmy. Although Trump didn’t win one. Guess why? He claimed it was all rigged.
@Trump24: Looks the part
Smart and beautiful, excellent choice :)
@Paul M Doe: Yes indeed . God spared Donald Trump from assassination for His own very good reasons . We should be thankful .
@Brendan O’Brien: Trump is the most qualified person in the country he has actual job experience and is amazing.
@Brendan O’Brien: If trump is not qualified why did he receive the best electoral vote and popular vote for a republican since George H W bush which was 1988??? The dems tried to destroy him and it backfired because the voters eyes were open. He got the largest share of the Democratic vote since Ronald Reagan also.
@Trump24: lol… he’s been bankrupt 6 times and started the game with generational wealth, I don’t judge people based on what the media say or people on here, it could ll work out really well for Americans, but he’s never worked a day in his life! “experience” :)
@Brendan O’Brien: of course he is, he already was president and he did a wonderful job.
@Thesaltyurchin: I laughed out loud to that comment ” experienced”. Also the way the sentence was put together;”he has actual job experience and is amazing” you would think with all the comment’s he writes all day everyday, he would develop better skills.
@HisMastersAlibi: he’s 12 with a man crush
Trump picking from a predator list is a new low in US politics..
@Jamie Hinch: no that’s bill clinton lol
@Paul M Doe: But he did not have sexual relations with that woman :)
@David O Brien: As an uber rich it’s your right to assault at will, remember lots of money means more clever! lol
Matt Gaetz has a very square looking head.
@Paul Martin: that is because they put him
In a box
“34 felony counts,” “federal sex trafficking” —-
@Iano C: all about to be overturned :)
@Paul M Doe: let’s not get in the way of facts…he resigned his position so the charges have to dropped NOT because they are not true…sounds like a plan he cooked up with Trump all along….and here’s you supporting a possible sex trafficker while calling sinn fein peados
@Clare Power: possible versus actual. Facts matter Karen lol
@Paul M Doe: The entire sinn fein party are not paedophiles..yes facts matter…..are you not ashamed supporting sex predators…this man told his colleague he had sex with an underage girl…will you call him a liar?.
@Clare Power: who said they were? Do you agree SF has a serious issue with pedos? Not only that, when found out they quickly move them across international borders to this country? Not only that, but gift them a position in our houses of government. You have no issue with that?
Popcorn time next year . Watching all the people who waged lawfare against Trump squirm . How many cases did they throw at him again ? . Everyone knows what they did to try and stop him running again it’s just the left whingers will never admit it . It will make mainstream news watchable again from the 20th of Jan just to see all the weeping and wailing .
@Mattblack: they didn’t ‘just’ throw every lowlife dirty trick in the book at the President of Peace….. they wrote a NEW book when the multiple assassin attempts started. Hoping this Ukraine/ Russian conflict does spiral into WW3 before the INAUGURATION OF PEACE Jan20th
@Frank Mc Carthy: “DOESN’T” spiral
@Frank Mc Carthy: Freudian slip there, Stephen.
@Brendan O’Brien: more ‘ SAMSUNG’ slip,lol
@Frank Mc Carthy: sex offences were withdrawn against Joe biden as well
@Frank Mc Carthy: do you read the beano or the dandy? Or would they go over your head?
He’s back choosing ‘the best people’ again LOL
Trump says that the US justice systems has been weaponised against him and OTHER REPUBLICANS. Who is it who refers to any Republican who disagrees with him or criticises him as RHINOS…..and who said RHINO’s are S C U M?
@Numinous20111: Who threatens any such Republican with a pro-Trump candidate contesting the RHINO’s primary election?
@Numinous20111: it’s RINO, Republican in Name Only
@Numinous20111: ‘weaponising the justice system’ in Trump speak = being held accountable for your actions.
@Setanta O’Toole: all going to be rightly overturned as it’s obvious political persecution :)
@Numinous20111: classic narcissistic behaviour
I bet he is already thinking of them alone in the Oval Office
@You’re Not Serious: it’s the democrats that have history in that department lol
@You’re Not Serious: Kamala would have picked her entire cabinet out of Ru Paul’s drag race, if she had the remote chance of having been elected, lol
Another appointment of crackpot henchmen/women from Orange turd.
Matt Gaetz WITHDREW as Attorney General – because he has something to hide. Matt Gaetz RESIGNED from the House – because he has something to hide. Matt Gaetz BEGGED Trump for a pardon – because he has something to hide.
@Jack Hayes: speculation, overruled lol
@Paul M Doe: A mugshot cabinet.
It’s great watching the US implode, especially with Trump picking nonces for big positions.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: the 2 things to guarantee a place in his cabinet…no experience and experience of sexual misconduct
@Clare Power: who has a criminal conviction for sexual offences in his proposed cabinet? You really need to try harder with your lies to make the believable lol
@Paul M Doe: I’m sorry….where did I say criminal conviction???
Another white supremacist who hates gay people.
@Chin: don’t forget her well documented shady financial behaviour either.
Wonderful appointment, if the left are triggered you know it’s a great appointment
@Paul M Doe: doesn’t take much to trigger em’ nowadays, they taking the great victory hard
@Chin: Keep them coming so
How long before he fires her and calls her ‘dumb as a rock’?
@Brendan O’Brien: isn’t that why the people fired Kamala lol
Trump is a sex offender so will she send the sex offender to jail
@Anthony Ross: trump has no criminal convictions for anything you mention :)
Who actually cares
Paul yes he was
Trump is a sex offender maybe she will do her job and jail him
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