Hartstown/Blakestown

Skr4wny

What are peoples experience of living around there? My main concerns are break-ins and scrotes hanging around hassling people. Not familiar with those places at all but know other parts of the greater blanch area and there can be big differences between areas. Some are real nice and others I wouldn't ever want to live there.

Cheers.

Gate Automation

Bad opinion have: Mulhuddart, Corduf, Walkinstown, Hartstown/Blakestown

January

Gate Automation wrote: »

Bad opinion have: Mulhuddart, Corduf, Walkinstown, Hartstown/Blakestown

:rolleyes:

Hartstown is fine, so is Blakestown.

January

January wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Hartstown is fine, so is Blakestown.

+1. Every Dublin suburb has the problems the OP listed. Nothing stands out about D15 areas in particular IMO.

Nothing wrong with 90% of D15. There is a couple of places I wouldn't like to live through (again, like every Dublin suburb).

January

Deleted User wrote: »

+1. Every Dublin suburb has the problems the OP listed. Nothing stands out about D15 areas in particular IMO.

Nothing wrong with 90% of D15. There is a couple of places I wouldn't like to live through (again, like every Dublin suburb).

I probably live in the 10% you wouldn't live in, believe me, it's not half as bad as people make it out to be. At least, not anymore, reputations stick though so I can understand where people are coming from.

January

January wrote: »

I probably live in the 10% you wouldn't live in, believe me, it's not half as bad as people make it out to be. At least, not anymore, reputations stick though so I can understand where people are coming from.

I mean the Castlecurragh area. Only reason I wouldn't live there is a family member had multiple bad experiences when they got a home up there. However, that was quite a few years ago and I have a couple of friends who live close by and have no problems, so probably has improved.

KGLady

Living in a cul de sac off the Hartstown loop and have been very happy for years. There's often kids hanging about the shops at the Eurospar in the evening but I've never seen trouble from them, there is sports clubs in the area and regular activites in the community centre for kids so there's no issues I've seen of gangs roaming about with nothing to do but make trouble.

I never see teenagers hanging about street corners or drinking, dont see stolen cars or the like whizzing around. Have never had a break in. Have never been harassed or troubled when out walking in the area. We experienced one crime first hand (hubbys motorbike stolen, but it was done on a night with others in the area and was a well planned job targetting bike owners and those can happen anywhere in the country) in +7yrs of living here.

On the flipside, close to the city with good transport for work commute when I needed it. Husband works in a tech company based locally. Close to Blanch Centre. Wide selection of schools, parks, sports clubs and plenty of local amenities. Strong community with nice neighbours and plenty of other children in the area. Affordable houses of a good quality build.

Pros far far out number the cons

thomasj

Gate Automation wrote: »

Bad opinion have: Mulhuddart, Corduf, Walkinstown, Hartstown/Blakestown

Ah come on! Walkinstown is a lovely part of dublin 15 :pac:

They must have been using apple maps!

thomasj

KGLady wrote: »

Living in a cul de sac off the Hartstown loop and have been very happy for years. There's often kids hanging about the shops at the Eurospar in the evening but I've never seen trouble from them, there is sports clubs in the area and regular activites in the community centre for kids so there's no issues I've seen of gangs roaming about with nothing to do but make trouble.

I never see teenagers hanging about street corners or drinking, dont see stolen cars or the like whizzing around. Have never had a break in. Have never been harassed or troubled when out walking in the area. We experienced one crime first hand (hubbys motorbike stolen, but it was done on a night with others in the area and was a well planned job targetting bike owners and those can happen anywhere in the country) in +7yrs of living here.

On the flipside, close to the city with good transport for work commute when I needed it. Husband works in a tech company based locally. Close to Blanch Centre. Wide selection of schools, parks, sports clubs and plenty of local amenities. Strong community with nice neighbours and plenty of other children in the area. Affordable houses of a good quality build.

Pros far far out number the cons

+1 never had any issues, I've walked home at 1am to hartstown from blakestown and its been the quietest walk never had a hassle. The odd spot of bother with maybe cars speeding along but otherwise never had any hassle.

axle108

Never had an ounce of trouble. Seems to me from listening to colleagues at work and friends, they have had more trouble in more desireable areas of the city as some would call them.

chucknorris

Moved to Rusheeney in October. Addressed as Clonsilla, it's more Hartstown I reckon but not a budge since I moved in.

I moved from Corduff and to be honest I didn't have any trouble there either.

It seems the easier targets are always on the receiving end of anti-social behavior no matter where they live, and I say easy targets - I mean it in the nicest possible way.

Old people, people visiting relatives, people in hospital etc.

orlaanne

I grew up in in that area and went to school in Hartstown, never had a problem. I'd actually say it was rougher 10 years ago than it is now.

Gabriele

KGLady wrote: »

Living in a cul de sac off the Hartstown loop and have been very happy for years. There's often kids hanging about the shops at the Eurospar in the evening but I've never seen trouble from them, there is sports clubs in the area and regular activites in the community centre for kids so there's no issues I've seen of gangs roaming about with nothing to do but make trouble.

I never see teenagers hanging about street corners or drinking, dont see stolen cars or the like whizzing around. Have never had a break in. Have never been harassed or troubled when out walking in the area. We experienced one crime first hand (hubbys motorbike stolen, but it was done on a night with others in the area and was a well planned job targetting bike owners and those can happen anywhere in the country) in +7yrs of living here.

On the flipside, close to the city with good transport for work commute when I needed it. Husband works in a tech company based locally. Close to Blanch Centre. Wide selection of schools, parks, sports clubs and plenty of local amenities. Strong community with nice neighbours and plenty of other children in the area. Affordable houses of a good quality build.

Pros far far out number the cons

I live in Hartstown too, in a cool de sac as well,and everything is fine, kids playing on the street, nice community nothing to complaint about. When someone tried to to burglar my house, (those fellas are not from Harstown, they are targetting all d15 and i heard that now they moved to Leixlip area) all the neighbours offered help, and were really sympathetic. So my suggestion is, if you want to move in Hartstown, do it with no worries.

Skr4wny

Cheers folks for all the replies. Boards comes in handy for sussing out the strangest things :-) Houses are great value out there at the moment. Ironically I'm moving from Dublin 7 which is much rougher than most places!

I'm so glad I went out every weekend during the Celtic Tiger and wasn't mature enough to save the money for a house. I came out of it with no debt, blessed to have a job and a ridiculously cheap property market. During the Celtic tiger I had resigned myself to never being able to afford a gaff.

Life is wierd.

B.A._Baracus

January wrote: »

:rolleyes:

Hartstown is fine, so is Blakestown.

I wouldn't describe both as 'fine'
- certainly not the worst areas in Ireland to live in. Far worse places make the list above blakestown/hartstown. But lets be honest... Both are far from fine.

- Increase of burglaries.
- How many times has Lidl Blakestown been robbed?
- There was a pipe bomb found in Whitestown Drive a year ago. (Drug related)
- Someone got shot in Hartstown this year (drug related)
- While certainly not as bad as in the 90s. You still get the odd joyriders and burned out cars.

January

You get that everywhere though. Pipe bombs in are rampant in this city at the moment, it's not just D15 that are experiencing this. There's stabbings/shootings all over the city too. There's robberies in Post Offices and shops all over the place. You can attribute all those things to any area in Dublin at the moment.

B.A._Baracus

January wrote: »

You get that everywhere though. Pipe bombs in are rampant in this city at the moment, it's not just D15 that are experiencing this. There's stabbings/shootings all over the city too. There's robberies in Post Offices and shops all over the place. You can attribute all those things to any area in Dublin at the moment.

I dont hear the same for Castleknock. Do you?

Morag

http://www.thejournal.ie/gardai-seize-shotguns-and-cocaine-at-house-in-castleknock-377107-Mar2012/

TWO MEN HAVE been arrested after gardaí seized shotguns and drugs at a house in Castleknock in Dublin during a planned search.

B.A._Baracus

Morag wrote: »

http://www.thejournal.ie/gardai-seize-shotguns-and-cocaine-at-house-in-castleknock-377107-Mar2012/

Geez :pac:
There seems to be ALOT of people defending it For the record I grew up in the area. It aint "fine" - its not some dog rough place at the same time too. But again, not "fine and dandy" ... Has anyone actually live in blakestown?

But seeing as how we are playing "lets search google" Whitestown:

- Murder
- Dad of one killed in Blaze
- Man shot in the face

"Ah sure but you get that in every area" - does anyone know the size of whitestown on here? Has anyone actually BEEN in whitestown on here?

Zaph

OK folks, let's keep it friendly please. The only cards I want to be giving out this week are Christmas cards.

January

You forgot mine so.

Zaph

January wrote: »

You forgot mine so.

I believe An Post is swamped at the moment. I'm sure it'll arrive any day now.

Morag

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Geez :pac:
There seems to be ALOT of people defending it For the record I grew up in the area. It aint "fine" - its not some dog rough place at the same time too. But again, not "fine and dandy" ... Has anyone actually live in blakestown?

But seeing as how we are playing "lets search google" Whitestown:

- Murder
- Dad of one killed in Blaze
- Man shot in the face

"Ah sure but you get that in every area" - does anyone know the size of whitestown on here? Has anyone actually BEEN in whitestown on here?

Yes, it is a rather large estate, I know several people who live there and never had any hassle.

As for your links, the first one is over 6 years old, the second the fire was rule to be an accident and as for the 3rd one that was a row between family members. It's an old co council estate which had slowly been bought out by people so that over 1/3 of it is privately owned and the estate management are quick to move out people who cause trouble.

Hilly Bill

B.A._Baracus wrote: »

Geez :pac:
There seems to be ALOT of people defending it For the record I grew up in the area. It aint "fine" - its not some dog rough place at the same time too. But again, not "fine and dandy" ... Has anyone actually live in blakestown?

But seeing as how we are playing "lets search google" Whitestown:

- Murder
- Dad of one killed in Blaze
- Man shot in the face

"Ah sure but you get that in every area" - does anyone know the size of whitestown on here? Has anyone actually BEEN in whitestown on here?

I live in the area and i wouldnt live in Whitestown. The houses seem too close to each other ( and i dont mean side by side ) and the roads narrow.

Cth123

Im interested in buying a house in Meadow Drive, Hartstown - would be very interested if you had constructive feedback on this part of Hartstown? Thanks so much.

dickwod1

Its a very quiet spot, The road into Rusheeny used to have boy racers doing handbreakers on it but theres 4 ramps along it now so all quiet.

Its on the 39 stop so plenty of buses
Its across the road from The Hartstown community school 5 min walk from Hartstown primary school
Theres nice parks beside Castlewood through to Ongar and Littlepace (some kids on scramblers there during the summer though)
The Hartstown park is right beside there too with a new all weather football pitch aswell as all the other pitches.

ela.kret

Cth123 wrote: »

Im interested in buying a house in Meadow Drive, Hartstown - would be very interested if you had constructive feedback on this part of Hartstown? Thanks so much.

did you buy the house at the end? We are currently thinking about buying in Meadow dale and would love to get more feedback on the area.

chucknorris

I live at the back of it, in Rusheeney.

The Meadow area is a well settled area. Built in and around 83/84.

It's generally quiet.

ela.kret

thanks @chucknorris