On the one hand we hear developers can’t build things because it’s too expensive and the margins are too fine and on the other they can pay out 3.2 million in go away money.
A very simplistic view
If a development was costing 100m for example and there was a 3% cost to start it immediately vs taking a chance on double digit cost inflation then maybe the go away money was the cheaper option…
The number and size of the new ones on the left as you drive into Howth appeared to me to be a bit out of sync with the rest of the area. Another similar sized pile on the other side would make you feel like you were driving through Terminal 2 in Dublin airport.
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Howth going to become a serious traffic logjam with only one way in. Its already impossible get to a good days.
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also, with the new dart, at rush hour the level crossing will be down for 40mins every hour in Sutton
E-bikes, bikes & trains will rule
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You’re forgetting about the yachts and helicopters available to most of the population living there.
Are there plans for pedestrian/cyclist brigdes at those crossings?
It’ll also disrupt the bus services there
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“Based on the assessments carried out to date, additional infrastructural interventions at the four level crossings are not considered necessary.”
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I feel so sorry for the people of Howth.
That people in the area would have preferred the derelict Techrete site to that apartment development tells you a lot about the mindset out here. A former Fingal county manager (unaware that I was a Peninsulan) once exclaimed to me in exasperation “that crowd out there would put a drawbridge at Sutton Cross if they could”. The reality is that that huge apartment development is perfectly placed being right at the terminus of the DART line, which is habitually empty (even at morning rush hour) when it pulls out of Howth station. More apartments across the road also make sense. They will also be good for businesses in Howth because, while there is great life in Howth on sunny weekend days, it’s dead at night. An influx of young dwellers is just what it needs. And these apartments are nowhere near the ecologically sensitive parts of the Hill.
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Howth seems to be home to the most self entitled self satisfied carnival of cunts to ever walk the island.
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https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0715/1460014-locals-object-to-google-pub-plan-for-dublin-4/
Of course
Be a great place for a pub
“Mr Lynch states that the residents are effectively living on Google’s Campus due to recent developments.”
Free sports facilities, public realm improvements and significant property value appreciation. So sad for those people, if only it was still highlighted by a dilapidated flour mill and a bus station.
They can always move somewhere else.
There used to be a place where they washed sanitary towel bins and an abbatoir on Barrow Street before Google came along
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It had character
The abbatoir was used as a car park for a few years for companies in the Treasury building. I worked the summer between school and college there. Handiest money ever. Just don’t make eye contact with the junkies going in to shoot up.
Bob Geldof once worked in that abbatoir.
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