Private enterprise would be a part of it. They are a part of Cherrywood development but it’s part of a bigger picture . But extend it nationally. Work out what we need, where we need it, where we are now abs where we want to be.
No short term budgetary interference in housing market but a proper ten year plan because it will take ten years to fix the problem and trying to fix it in six months with a knee jerk intervention just fucks it up.
An example of shit planning is schools/convents/playing grounds being sold to build apartments. Apartments built. People move in and now people want schools and playing grounds but who will build and provide them.
Before housing is planned and developed who looks at estimated kids in area and school requirements. Schools come years later if at all.
A reason for objections to local planning is there’s never any proper associated infrastructure linked to it.
I have to say, I do find it useful when reading book reviews in the Irish Times that they give the political background of the reviewer.
That way I know, and can thus factor into my evaluation of a piece, that the opinions I am reading come from a person who may happen to be moonlighting as the Minister of Finance, for example.
I dont know what Dundalk is like so I dont know what this area is like, @caulifloweredneanderthal are you up that direction?
I have been told by two sources that Dundalk has no housing list. The Council don’t need houses so they arent in the market for these. They dont need to rent houses either, so there is no funds bidding for them as they wont have guaranteed income.
Dont know about the young or old first time buyers market, maybe they just don’t want to live in El Paso.
Those houses you put up are the finest, if a little small. They’re the cheapest on market locally (I’d say they’re approximately 6km from downtown Dundalk) but close to two decent primary schools, Supervalu, hotel, pub, GAA, etc. I actually think they might have slightly increased the prices on them but I thought a lot of the estate was sold out. There’s about four or five estates out that side (you’re practically in Blackrock) that have new houses for sale but that seems to be the only part of Dundalk where new builds are.
We hope to enter the market ourselves later this year/ early next. Will let you know how it goes
The people we live next door to were living in a flat in Swords. They were expecting twins at the time and needed more space. She was already WFH and he was gone back to college so they moved here as it’s the only place they could afford rent.
A little pal of our little wan lives around the corner. His Mam is a Dub (I think she was living out Ballymun direction, so wasn’t exactly leaving somewhere upmarket) - again, knew they’d need a bit more space so ended up renting out here.
It’s actually not the worst place in the country. My expectations always were that it was a total shithole. My first time ever up here was for job interview - it was December and pissing rain. My second time was up for a medical the same day that young Japanese man was stabbed and killed randomly. First impressions weren’t great to be honest, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Beaches and the Cooleys nearby have been a big help. Unless a similar job pops up closer to home in the next 12 months, we are going to buy up here, and I’d say that’ll be us staying here for good. The little wan is enrolled in a montessori down the road with some of the young lads in the estate from September. She’s going to have a horrid Louth accent though.
Why hasn’t anyone in the media questioned the goverments claim to have the biggest social housing budget in the history of the state. A dog with a mallet up its arse would assume that the cost of construction is far higher today compared to the 60s and 70s
