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Waterford Tourism

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  • #102
    Max Powers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    Interesting tourism figures in today's independent, number 11 out of 26 counties on domestic visits and oversees visits 2017. Outside of Dublin, the wild Atlantic way counties dominate, its no surprise really, they have traditionally being well ahead for decades and with the WAW investment and promotion pushed them on further id guess, plenty of room for us in SE to push up into top 5 /10 , with right marketing and funding from govt. Meanwhile, we in Waterford need to promote ourselves, offer directions to tourist if they look lost, keep the place looking well, support the city centre businesses, bars, restaurants and our tourism products.


  • #103
    914
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭914


    Max Powers wrote: »
    Meanwhile, we in Waterford need to promote ourselves, offer directions to tourist if they look lost, keep the place looking well, support the city centre businesses, bars, restaurants and our tourism products.

    +1 for this very well said.


  • #104
    TheQuietFella
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    914 wrote: »
    Front/back garden with parking is important to families but you would never fit that kind of property where those houses are located on doyle street. At best removing one of the house and expanding the othere may allow for three bed terraced houses with back garden and on street parking.

    I'm not only including just the area of Doyle Street but the entire area from
    Barrack Street, Morrisson's Road to Lower Yellow Road. Obviously one step at a time!

    View the area as a blank canvas 914, without what's currently there!
    Build new properties, create a totally new environment of modern day homes
    with a classical style that will never age!

    Restrict purchases for first time buyers only and have conditions of sale
    and re-sale attached!


  • #105
    Max Powers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,510 ✭✭✭Max Powers


    TheQuietFella wrote: »
    I'm not only including just the area of Doyle Street but the entire area from
    Barrack Street, Morrisson's Road to Lower Yellow Road. Obviously one step at a time!

    View the area as a blank canvas 914, without what's currently there!
    Build new properties, create a totally new environment of modern day homes
    with a classical style that will never age!

    Restrict purchases for first time buyers only and have conditions of sale
    and re-sale attached!

    More fantasy land nonsense...first off, CPOing homes occupied already would be near impossible, especially if it's for non critical infrastructure, not just more homes.
    Secondly, where does this money come from, how does it get repaid, etc etc. Bearing also in mind council is millions in the red as is.
    Thirdly, the houses to be demolished on doyle street, were either already in council ownership or abandoned.added to that, they were structurally unsafe, that is why they are planned for knocking, that is how the council managed to take charge of all of them, i.e.there was little to no money involved.
    It's hard to credit you persist with such rubbish that has been proven to be drivel time and time again.


  • #106
    914
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭914


    TheQuietFella wrote: »
    I'm not only including just the area of Doyle Street but the entire area from
    Barrack Street, Morrisson's Road to Lower Yellow Road. Obviously one step at a time!

    View the area as a blank canvas 914, without what's currently there!
    Build new properties, create a totally new environment of modern day homes
    with a classical style that will never age!

    Restrict purchases for first time buyers only and have conditions of sale
    and re-sale attached!

    Who and how could this be funded? Its a good idea but unrealistic. First off you would have to acquire all the properties, purchase new properties for those who reside there and moat likely pay compensation.

    Then construct new properties. You would never get near breaking even, never mind making a profit.

    The only way this would be anyway remotely possible is to build apartments 5-6 stories tall which wouldn't be family friendly.


  • #107
    azimuth17
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    Sensible stuff Max. Did I not read in local papers recently that three small housing schemes were to start in September/October. One in Doyle Street on the site in question, one on the corner of Military Road and Lower Yellow Road (at the traffic lights) and the other on the garage site opposite the tax office at the junction of Bridge Street and the Glen?


  • #108
    debok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 814 ✭✭✭debok


    TheQuietFella wrote: »
    I'm not only including just the area of Doyle Street but the entire area from
    Barrack Street, Morrisson's Road to Lower Yellow Road. Obviously one step at a time!

    View the area as a blank canvas 914, without what's currently there!
    Build new properties, create a totally new environment of modern day homes
    with a classical style that will never age!

    Restrict purchases for first time buyers only and have conditions of sale
    and re-sale attached!

    Ah Jaysus.


  • #109
    914
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭914


    azimuth17 wrote: »
    Sensible stuff Max. Did I not read in local papers recently that three small housing schemes were to start in September/October. One in Doyle Street on the site in question, one on the corner of Military Road and Lower Yellow Road (at the traffic lights) and the other on the garage site opposite the tax office at the junction of Bridge Street and the Glen?

    Just passed doyle street today and work has begun on the houses there.


  • #110
    TheQuietFella
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    914 wrote: »
    Just passed doyle street today and work has begun on the houses there.

    Another dream bites the dust!


  • #111
    914
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,601 ✭✭✭914


    TheQuietFella wrote: »
    Another dream bites the dust!


    Would you prefer they be left idle and fall down while we magical wait for millions to develop the area where a developer wouldn't break even let alone make a profit?


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  • #112
    Max Powers
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    914 wrote: »
    Would you prefer they be left idle and fall down while we magical wait for millions to develop the area where a developer wouldn't break even let alone make a profit?

    It was a load of nonsense is all.
    Back on the tourism front, a lot of artists painting in city centre today, side of KBC bank looks great...not finished yet.


  • #113
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,472 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Adyx wrote: »
    We really need a sarcasm smiley. :pac:


    It's really not a competition (or at least not between the South East counties). A busy tourist season in the SE is good for us all. It's the other regions we should all be competing against. One city/county on it's own isn't big enough to put in the work needed to compete with the SW, Wild Atlantic Way etc.

    This exactly...if visitors stay in KK a day trip to Waterford would be an ideal, very interesting and easy way to spend a day. Likewise visitors to Waterford. This is what we need to be doing, selling the lot as a package and this what I understand the aim of the Ancient East is trying to do. Rather than lamenting the lack of Wild Atlantic Way (Waterford is firmly in the east of country) embrace this as a way to get more people out of Dublin. I think Waterford as part of the WA Way would have been very much out on a limb trying to get visitors all the way from Kerry and the west coast with great difficulty.


  • #114
    TheQuietFella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭TheQuietFella


    Max Powers wrote: »
    It was a load of nonsense is all.
    Back on the tourism front, a lot of artists painting in city centre today, side of KBC bank looks great...not finished yet.


    http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160126-how-a-modern-city-was-born

    Maybe the French felt the same way Max but I wonder?


  • #115
    914
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    road_high wrote: »
    This exactly...if visitors stay in KK a day trip to Waterford would be an ideal, very interesting and easy way to spend a day. Likewise visitors to Waterford. This is what we need to be doing, selling the lot as a package and this what I understand the aim of the Ancient East is trying to do. Rather than lamenting the lack of Wild Atlantic Way (Waterford is firmly in the east of country) embrace this as a way to get more people out of Dublin. I think Waterford as part of the WA Way would have been very much out on a limb trying to get visitors all the way from Kerry and the west coast with great difficulty.

    Think we starting to see this happen. The cruise ship that was docked in dunmore last week had a town in waterford around the VT etc and a day in KK at the castle. Good to see.


  • #116
    road_high
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    914 wrote: »
    Think we starting to see this happen. The cruise ship that was docked in dunmore last week had a town in waterford around the VT etc and a day in KK at the castle. Good to see.

    Need to get more of these cruise ships in as they are a super way of getting in visitors with cash!


  • #117
    Deiseen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,748 ✭✭✭Deiseen


    road_high wrote: »
    914 wrote: »
    Think we starting to see this happen. The cruise ship that was docked in dunmore last week had a town in waterford around the VT etc and a day in KK at the castle. Good to see.

    Need to get more of these cruise ships in as they are a super way of getting in visitors with cash!

    A lot have come in this year and last.


  • #118
    Joe Daly
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    Its a pity Rosslare port the facilaties are so run down you would think with Brexit coming its going to be the gateway to Europe that things would be improved nothing working lifts stairs etc the last time I used it.


  • #119
    Wanderer78
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    Joe Daly wrote:
    Its a pity Rosslare port the facilaties are so run down you would think with Brexit coming its going to be the gateway to Europe that things would be improved nothing working lifts stairs etc the last time I used it.


    Hard to know where that calamity is going, but it currently doesn't look good, but there probably will be opportunities for us if it does indeed go south, port investments are expensive though


  • #120
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Joe Daly wrote: »
    Its a pity Rosslare port the facilaties are so run down you would think with Brexit coming its going to be the gateway to Europe that things would be improved nothing working lifts stairs etc the last time I used it.

    Foynes seems to be set to gain most in the future ...... and appear to be well prepared with expansion plans and development in place.

    http://www.sfpc.ie/about-us/port-development/


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  • #121
    azimuth17
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    Looks like Dublin will hoover up most?
    http://www.dublinport.ie/masterplan/masterplan-2040-reviewed-2018/


  • #122
    road_high
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,472 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Joe Daly wrote: »
    Its a pity Rosslare port the facilaties are so run down you would think with Brexit coming its going to be the gateway to Europe that things would be improved nothing working lifts stairs etc the last time I used it.

    Was in Rosslare last year and it's a time warp. It's incredible Irish Rail are still allowed run this. It should be a real company with vision and initiative not this pathetic dinosaur.


  • #123
    TheQuietFella
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    914 wrote: »
    Just passed doyle street today and work has begun on the houses there.

    I noted last weekend that one house at the Barrack Street end of Doyle Street has been totally demolished! What does this say in regard to the rest?


  • #124
    TheQuietFella
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭TheQuietFella


    An amendment to the above!

    Six or seven houses have been completely demolished!


  • #125
    marrial1809
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭marrial1809


    Hey there,

    I headed to California last month and now planning to go to Dublin in June. So, can anyone suggest me some advice or tips to traveling Dublin. I have visited the website, and read Masterplan 2040 that's fine but nothing much helped me for the trip.
    Thanks!


  • #126
    debok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 814 ✭✭✭debok


    marrial1809 wrote: »
    Hey there,

    I headed to California last month and now planning to go to Dublin in June. So, can anyone suggest me some advice or tips to traveling Dublin. I have visited the website, and read Masterplan 2040 that's fine but nothing much helped me for the trip.
    Thanks!

    Jaysus ya got no bites yet


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