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Save The Former Hume Street Hospital from Destruction

  • 15-02-2011 10:41pm
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    Run_to_da_hills
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    To Whom it concerns,

    The former Hume Street hospital (which also consists of four of the cities’ most important protected architectural and historical structures) is currently being ransacked.

    Hume street is almost 250 years old, these structures were in existence during the revolution of 1798, the Irish Famine, the time of Charles Stewart Parnell and Daniel O’Connell, The 1916 revolution of Irish Independence, World War I, World War II, the Battle of Hume Street, the destruction of Wood Quay and the recession of the 1980s.

    Lead is being stripped from the roof, which will cause irreparable water damage to the interior. Pipes, water tanks, copper and general fixture and fittings are being pillaged from the building. The interior is being destroyed by criminal opportunists.

    While one might like to point the finger at these hoodlums, we believe that the current owners, whomever they are, their inaction is their action is in effect an attack on the people of Ireland and the culture and architecture of our beautiful capital city.

    Recessions of the past have led to the destruction of large parts of the historical architecture of Dublin, including Mountjoy Square, Gardiner Street, buildings off Merrion Square among others. We cannot allow this to happen again. Legislation has been introduced that should ensure that this does not happen, however, no authority appears to have taken appropriate and necessary steps.

    The Derelict Buildings Act 1990 provides for financial penalties for those who allow/ prevent buildings from becoming derelict. Under the Planning and Development Act 2000, owners or occupiers of protected structures who endanger the structure or who fail to carry out work can be liable for fines of up to 1.27 million euro and/or a term of imprisonment of up to five years.

    It would appear that no individual, authority organisation or entity has taken the responsibility for protecting this supposed “protected structure”.

    We wish to create awareness of the destruction of this section of Hume Street, so that a professional contractor is employed to begin emergency repairs. It will be a matter of weeks before rainfall permanently damages the interior of these buildings. Therefore, we wish that this work carried out immediately so as to avoid any further damage.

    Please ask all of your friends and colleagues to join our facebook page – type “Save Hume Street from Destruction”. If they are not on facebook, can you select and copy this to an email and send it to as many people as possible.

    Yours Sincerely

    Peter J McCarthy
    Maeve McCarthy
    Frank McCarthy
    Brian McCarthy

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-Hume-Street-from-Destruction/195451563807672


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