Dublin - Building heights

The public comments on social media about the Glasnevin case are more/less 100% in favour of the development and roundly comdem the nimbys and politicians. That's a positive change at least.

Seems irresponsible Irish Rail to want that land developed, what with a crippling under capacity in Public transport.

I've seen some site activity on tara house, some scaffolding going up but there's not been any commencement notice afaik.

Hopefully the tower will go ahead. If Metro does move to construction 18 months from now, it'll be interesting to see basically the whole of Tara st being a building site.

Irish Times - "Johnny Ronan’s bid to add floors at Dublin docklands tower shot down yet again"

"Commenting further on their decision, the city’s planners said the proposed addition of the two floors at Spencer Place would “ be unduly dominant and visually incongruous when viewed in the context of the existing quayscape on North Wall Quay, a conservation area, and the surrounding built environment.

The council added that the proposal would “ adversely impact on the setting of the former London and Northwestern Hotel, a protected structure, and other buildings of historic interest in the vicinity” of the Spencer Place campus, and “would present an unduly monolithic appearance when viewed from the surrounding streets”.”

Conservation area?! Are they actually having a laugh?! This is what they consider to be a conservation area, and the existing developments don't have "an unduly monolithic appearance when viewed from the surrounding streets"?!

denartha wrote: »

That party is a parody of themselves at this point.

Of course the Irish version of the greens , had to be a nimby first , green agenda second party !

Sure the same party would be lambasting the government for the housing and homelessness crisis - like what do they want? I actually think the development looks smart (though no doubt it will be destroyed by a small minority that will ultimately live there).

What really made me laugh out loud though was:

“[Councillor John Lyons said the scheme was] a monolithic monstrosity that will totally destroy the area”

How exactly will this high quality development affect the architectual gems that are Bargaintown; Mattress Mick's; The Cadburys Factory; Odean, Power City and Leisureplex Coolock; and the Dulux site with it's neighbour, a derelict factory, directly to it's south?

denartha wrote: »

I live next to the new Cherrywood development. Before building started you could see cows grazing while standing on the Luas platform. Theres still a lot of fields right next to the Luas tracks between there and Carrickmines. The next stop down has empty fields on both sides of the tracks. Its far enough away from Georgian Dublin that any height of building will not spoil the skyline for anyone living on Leinster Road. Build there, build up.

You could house significant amounts of people in a relatively small area next to a regular, mostly reliable, transport system. But no.

Your point is spot on. They have allocated ed colossal amounts of green space for cherrywood. And within a stones throw of the luas , endless five floor residential buildings, it’s beyomd a joke!

Crossing over threads here but Cherrywood and its scope for high rise is the very reason that the greenline Luas should have and still should be upgraded to metro. We seem to be building new buildings back to front in Dublin, all the higher density areas away from the city centre and its employment with no real future plan on how these residents will commute back into the city.