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Gasworks site.

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  • 15-12-2016 3:24pm
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    somebaldyfela
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    Passed here earlier,saw a bit of work going on. Is the new carpark finally going ahead?


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    Tim the Enchanter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 309 ✭✭Tim the Enchanter


    Yeah, new carpark finally -

    http://www.wlrfm.com/news/local/87858-work-on-new-waterford-city-car-park-to-start-next-week.html


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    iseegirls
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    Unbelievable that this site has remained vacant for 30 years.


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    TheQuietFella
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    iseegirls wrote: »
    Unbelievable that this site has remained vacant for 30 years.

    Don't forget the flour mills!!!

    Par for the course in this region!


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    Max Powers
    Registered Users Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    TheQuietFella wrote: »
    Don't forget the flour mills!!!

    Par for the course in this region!

    Common across all of Ireland, cork has derelict sites down by its docks for decades too.Dublin O'Connell street old cinema site which had been demolished and empty for as long as can remember.all of these sites have issues which stalled anything happening, ownership issues, semi states pulling out of what they promised economics, etc.


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    BBM77
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    TheQuietFella wrote: »
    iseegirls wrote: »
    Unbelievable that this site has remained vacant for 30 years.

    Don't forget the flour mills!!!

    Par for the course in this region!

    Ah no. It is par for the course for sites with contaminated ground, and as has been said, other issues. It is nothing particular to the region. Would you buy land to build a house on that engineers have told you that the ground is contaminated or has legal issues associated with it?


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    JohnC.
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    Looks very close to opening. All the markings done, signs and pay machines installed. Same price as Millers Marsh. €1 per hour. Minimum 50c (half hour) and €3.60 for the day.

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    Max Powers
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    JohnC. wrote: »
    Looks very close to opening. All the markings done, signs and pay machines installed. Same price as Millers Marsh. €1 per hour. Minimum 50c (half hour) and €3.60 for the day.

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    Nice one John, was wondering.


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    Deiseen
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    JohnC. wrote: »
    Looks very close to opening. All the markings done, signs and pay machines installed. Same price as Millers Marsh. €1 per hour. Minimum 50c (half hour) and €3.60 for the day.

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    €3.60 a day is unbelievable value. Surely this place will be full every day! I wonder what people will complain about now instead of parking?


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    Harry Palmr
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    I'd complain about how there are three large carparks almost side by side Millers Marsh, Gasworks, Bolton Street.
    I know the Gasworks site is a particular challenge due to the horrors of town gas pollution but something more imaginative should have been possible.


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    invalid
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    I'd complain about how there are three large carparks almost side by side Millers Marsh, Gasworks, Bolton Street.
    I know the Gasworks site is a particular challenge due to the horrors of town gas pollution but something more imaginative should have been possible.

    Site was for sale for years with no takers.


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    Harry Palmr
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    Wasn't thinking of private enterprise - something owned by and for the city was what I had in mind. Vaguely.


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    Deiseen
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Wasn't thinking of private enterprise - something owned by and for the city was what I had in mind. Vaguely.

    Like........?


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    JohnC.
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    I noticed posters up for Daytripper, which is being held in there this year. Probably hold a fair bit more than Bolton Street?


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    Harry Palmr
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    JohnC. wrote: »
    I noticed posters up for Daytripper, which is being held in there this year. Probably hold a fair bit more than Bolton Street?

    They could nearly have an adjacent three stage festival - Bolton Street, Gasworks, Millers Marsh! Obviously the latter would be for a tall thin group.


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    Max Powers
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    Any idea when car park open.


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    kaef
    Registered Users Posts: 147 ✭✭kaef


    Jesus lads, if they would build something on that site you would complain about lack of parking spaces...


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    mooseknunkle
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    Max Powers wrote: »
    Any idea when car park open.

    Opened today

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    BBM77
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    It’s amazing how some new tarmac has tidied the whole area up.


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    Max Powers
    Registered Users Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    BBM77 wrote: »
    It’s amazing how some new tarmac has tidied the whole area up.

    + the clean up and excavation of the polluted soil, flood protection and 2 bridges


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    BBM77
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    Max Powers wrote: »
    + the clean up and excavation of the polluted soil, flood protection and 2 bridges

    Jees pedantic or what! I know there was more to it.


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    Harry Palmr
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    Okay someone tell me why parking starts at 8.30 am in Irish


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    Jamie2k9
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Okay someone tell me why parking starts at 8.30 am in Irish

    It's free outside the hours on the sign.


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    wmpdd3
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    Free after 18:30 on Friday is great, everywhere else is charged until 21:00. I have to say I thought paid parking started at 9:00am, that will tell you how long it is since I left my car in town!

    How can you get here from the bridge if you avoid the quay? Can you drive down the Apple market? Or do you have to come down Bunkers hill and drive in the Mall? I've looked at the map, but I'm still not sure.


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    mooseknunkle
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    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Free after 18:30 on Friday is great, everywhere else is charged until 21:00. I have to say I thought paid parking started at 9:00am, that will tell you how long it is since I left my car in town!

    How can you get here from the bridge if you avoid the quay? Can you drive down the Apple market? Or do you have to come down Bunkers hill and drive in the Mall? I've looked at the map, but I'm still not sure.

    Go up bridge street across the glen onto ballybricken over to mayors walk down newgate street across to castle street left on the manor right down johns street and left and the car park is on your right


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    wmpdd3
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    Ah, Castle street is still two way, brilliant.


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    Max Powers
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    BBM77 wrote: »
    Jees pedantic or what! I know there was more to it.

    Sorry bbm, didn't mean to be, there are morons out there who think that's all involved though.


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    Johnboy1951
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    Okay someone tell me why parking starts at 8.30 am in Irish

    Ye get an extra 30 mins free if you speak Irish :D


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    JohnC.
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    I pass it most days, but only noticed a couple of days ago that they may have done a whoopsie. Anyone else spot what's wrong here?

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    Try swinging that flood gate closed with that railing there


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    Max Powers
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    I hope that gate slides, maybe they realise it and just said, in flood, we'll have to bring spanner for barrier.


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    Wanderer78
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    slide id imagine, hard to tell from picture


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