Greenfield city

Donald Trump

There are reports that, in a worst case scenario, the government is planning to possibly have to deal with 200k Ukrainian refugees. Obviously the hope would be that they would be able to return home eventually.

Why don't the useless boffins get a few greenfield towns built around the country and take advantage of the sudden influx in order to try to shift the centre of mass a bit away from Dublin? All they would need is a critical mass to be self sustaining and the sudden influx could provide that.

Other counties have built new cites and eventually populated them. The difficulty would be that they built a new town in Cavan or Leitrim under normal circumstance then no normal person would want to move there. So you'd end up with a ghost estate. But if we could populate it with initially desperate people who don't know about Cavan people, then there might be enough of a critical mass to make it self sustaining. It still might take a few generations for normal Irish people to want to move to the likes of Cavan but you never know.

If/when the Ukrainians who can go home want to go home, then there would be a few new properly planned towns for Irish people to use.

Gregor Samsa

Ironically, there was the beginnings of something like this in Shannon (itself one of the only "new towns" built in the State) in the 90s - for Russians!

The future of a £2 million purpose-built Russian village at Shannon is in jeopardy because of the scaling down of Aeroflot operations at the airport over the past four years.

Opened in October 1992, the village has 24 five-bedroom houses and nine two-bedroom apartments on which there is still a loan outstanding.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/hopes-for-aeroflot-dachas-dashed-1.122815

I would love to design this and I know where I would put it but mine would be more of a large town, the town would have a very large man-made lake as the water is good for the soul and it would focus point, it would have excellent public transport and cycling infrastructure

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/03/blue-space-living-near-water-good-secret-of-happiness

Stanley 1

Bertie and the FF lads wanted to set up a big base outside Athlone for the Chinese lads back in the Celtic Tiger days, the idea went the same way.

Stanley 1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820116#Comment_118820116

Bertie also gave some lectures in Nigeria and nothing came of that either, there may have been another purpose.

BattleCorp1

Given that you can't fart here without a lengthy planning permission saga, it would take years to get approval and then another five to 50 years to build it. It would cost a multiple of what the politicians tell us it would cost. We'd run out of money and it would be half finished.

Have we the electrical capacity to cater for another 200k people here? Doubt it.

I'll have died of old age long before someone builds something like that here.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820545#Comment_118820545

Well, in the fantasy town I am designing I am a multi-billionaire so mear trifiles like planning permission would not matter.

BattleCorp1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820617#Comment_118820617

Build brothels, lots of them, so us boardsies have a chance at some giggidy giggidy. 😁

Donald Trump

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820627#Comment_118820627

Are ya stuck for a few quid? Looking for a sideline gig?

corner of hells

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118820617#Comment_118820617

Is this you ?

riclad

Out planning system is very slow and of course there's legal objectors to almost any large building, I think we have a shortage of building workers i think we would be doing well to even build 20 k houses this year many workers left Ireland 2 years ago will they ever come back? See Intel cancelled new building due to long planning delays

It seems impossible to build any big project in Ireland in less than 4 years even if the government owns the land and its serviced by water, esb etc

We are in a housing crisis right now I have no idea where 20k people will live unless they send them to rural towns all over the country

Ireland is not China. Where they have almost unlimited amount of workers and they don't have to worry about planning permission if they want to build a new city

Montage of Feck

The garden city concept is a good idea but maybe modify it to prioritise terraced housing and medium sized apartments.

ablelocks

new town proposal on the Clare side of University of Limerick

i doubt it'll happen, but it's an interesting proposal