Limerick improvement projects

It's a long trek if you are going from Arthurs Quay to Dooradoyle via the 304 at KBC... Personally I'd just hop on the 301 from Patrick Street to avoid such a situation

I suppose nothing had fundamentally changed since the application was last considered and approved. The process was basically reset to the stage where all submissions had to be sent to the relevant Local Authority for inclusion in the Chief Executives report. The site re-inspection was only conducted in late January and interestingly the same Inspector was allocated to the case as had compiled the previous report.

You'd think this is the end of it now but I wouldn't put anything past that mysterious entity that has been hell bent on halting this project since 2019.

Good luck to anybody in the traffic driving up the Rosbrien road from Childers Road when this gets built

The successful rejection of the planning by judicial review was based on a technicality. If that technicality no longer exists then there is no reason to go back to the courts on that basis. But if a new technicality is found, or the old one wasn't fixed appropriately that can be used for another judicial review. Also according to the files it's a strategic housing development, probably got priority from ABP

It's also for students iirc. So any Mary I students will walk and there is a bus to UL.

Making them live out of town increases the chances they drive and instead of putting an extra car on the road from Punches to destination you put a car on the road all the way from Mungret which means even more disruption.

Is there evidence to suggest students don't drive from their hometowns to their mid-week accommodation? Thinking of the villages in UL most of their car parks are fairly full mid week with some parking on footpaths

Who said they didn't.

Of course everyone except those like yourself who are trying to be disingenuous knows that thay are not driving from home to weekday hame every day Monday to Friday.

Again what is your answer to the housing crisis ? More suburbs ?

Disingenuous again.

Nobody is claiming students don't add to traffic.

The claim is that having them in Punches Cross close to college and the best bus route in Limerick adds a lot less than in more suburbs.

If you think corners are being cut here then by all means object to it.

Again what is your solution to the housing and "traffic crisis" ?

I was born in 1985 like my name suggests. I remember what happened very well. History should have thought us that we need to build up not out.

The better transport is happening. The plan was launched last week. Has to get through the NIMBYs yet though.

Build the houses where ?

Where is this place that they won't be "willy-nilly" ?

The biggest waste in that area are those new houses behind punches and Punches itself. Could have easily stuck a few floors of apartments over the hotel.

Did you see a different transport solution to me? All I saw was the same bus routes on the same streets with some minor tweaks

Maybe you're right, and this is a good place for a tower block I don't see it though. I think such a high structure in the middle of low lying ones will destroy the place but I accept I could be proven wrong

There are massive sites near Allendale where there are already apartment blocks and the development wouldn't look as out of place.

I've said it before on here, the next biggest building is Punches, which is 2 storeys but is also built into a hill so is effectively 1 storey for much of its length. 7 storeys at that site is way out of character for the area.

Even if they flipped the building and had the 7 storey portion at the rear where the site dips and kept the roof line at 4/5 storeys at punches Cross would have been slightly more in keeping with the area and still given the same amount of accommodation.

But I'll no doubt again be dismissed as a Nimby by some on here.

Can't really accuse you of nimbyism unless that's actually in your local area. You are correct in what you say other than that

It certainly is my local area, while not my back yard I'm about 400m from this new development, so have an interest in having the current eyesore removed, but would rather its done right.

Character of the area is a Lidl an abandoned school, an electricity substation and a petrol station.

More traffic on the dock road 🤣

Here is the plan btw