Surely if basic human rights can be suspended during a health crisis, then some council local development plan can be superceded in a housing crisis?
unbelievable. Assuming that is someone who already has his own house and is sorted. Why people cant understand that not everyone wants to buy a permanent residence, particularly in an area like that on the M50. It suits rental properties. Living in a rented apartment for a few years until they settle down somewhere more permanent later on in life. We are obsessed with not allowing rental units and making sure landlords get fucked over. Fucking madness.
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Get the renters out of the semi Ds down in Cabinteely too and you open up more homes for purchases. People’s brains polluted by years of shite in the media.
There’s a max amount of apartments coming online in south Dublin in the next 6 months. I wonder will we turn a corner though hard to with demographics and migration like it is.
the obsession with 3 bedroom forever homes in urban areas is ridiculous. And its usually the people already sorted who moan the most about it.
We need more houses. Not apartments. Not rental units. Not near me.
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When these local resident groups or individuals protest about developments that have a build to rent element, they often make thinly veiled (actually thickly veiled) comments that imply/infer (delete the incorrect word) renters are sub-human & dangerous. It’s bizarre carry on.
Renters were grand when they were corralled in Rathmines and Phibsboro. You couldn’t have them living in the suburbs.
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Pointless as it doesnt measure people who cannot afford to leave the family home, that figure would be multiples. Objections on fairly baseless reasons is one of the problems. The example above is bollocks. Now the rental market itself needs fixing, long term renting at set rate over a longer period is needed but that is not possible as demand is so high and wont be met for at least a decade, longer if this shit happens over and over again. Its not like every development is buy to let, plenty of owner occupied developments are being built, these all are required to provide 10%(correct me if im wrong on that figure) for social housing. Among all the barriers to building more accommodation this is one that should be eliminated
Local politicians know this issue would be murder at the next election. Turkeys wont vote for Christmas
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There’s a PhD there for someone to look at neighbourhood Facebook groups (primarily populated by 50+ folks) to see the attitudes to development out there.
Like that lad driving around Dundrum in his Merc saying what a shame for the “village” it is that so many roads are being pedestrianised, the loss of two “wonderful car parks” and that the apartments are destroying this beautiful vista.
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The landlords are circling the E-classes I see.
Sandyford Central is about to be completed along with quite a few other developments in south Dublin. This has nearly 600 apartments, is unassuming but well done and flew up. The State should have the developer of this look to build 10 of these in Dublin every years and a few others.
City building should have a minimum height of about 40 stories, preferably 50 (minimum)
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Stop that, rational thinking is nonsense
Would you believe I had the same conversation with the brother this morning who lives in Dublin.Hes currently working on what’s going to be Ireland’s tallest building at 22 stories.It should be at least 50.The bottom 11 are commercial and the top 11 are for apartments.Theyre leaving it so they can add on in future if they can get planning but it might not even be worth their while cost wise,now is the time to keep going upwards when everything is in place.
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Everyone goes to New York and thinks what an amazing place it is, looks at the shard and the like and think beautiful. Go back to Dublin and it’s build an 11 story that looke like a jurys ot it’ll ruin the city.
It’s hard to understand.
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That’s a very important glass ceiling building to be fair.
It is going to massively impact what is allowed going forward.
Basically in Dublin now the standard is 8 floors in transport nodes. That is up from 6 a few years ago. You also have a couple of dozen buildings now going over single digit floors.
Not everywhere is appropriate for 50 floor buildings. The wasted opportunity is the Docklands, particularly Waterfront South Central. Dublin City Council have been a disgrace.
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Ah sure I know that but this craic of only going 6 floors and a housing crisis ongoing is pure rubbish.He also said they’re still building too many commercial buildings.
Guy on the radio said there’s a glut of commercial property coming on stream this year with no tenants lined up yet
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There are investors looking at changing Office to Residential all over the place. The office market is fucked! If something isn’t pre let and coming up to completion it will remain shell and core for a long time. A lot of leases have break options at 5/10 years, if anything was signed pre covid with 5 years they are getting out. Investors now getting ahead of the curve.
In the US they are saying they will have a full employment recession??? It will be be a paper recession. The real estate market is fucked but yet the country will keep working and going.
In Ireland, retail is still doing well, no real issue with rent collections despite the cost of living ‘crisis’. Ireland is over shopped so bar Lidl and Aldi there won’t be anything new built. Office fucked. Funds for resi gone and developments don’t stack up.
Every construction company by the end of next year will be working through the LDA.
The housing crisis will be solved quicker than anyone thinks. It will cost the state a fair whack but that’s all this country needs to make it the best place in the world to live. Who will be in power when it turns……
If SF are they’ll be in power for 40 years.
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College Square?