nope I thinking same myself - it looks more like a one way to me but may I dont have vision 😂
Am I being too pessimistic but will MacCurtain street definitely fit two ways ? I was passing along it today and with the new footpath on the left hand side it looks very tight to me.
Taken from Thomil over on the Horgans Quay SkyScraperCity thread -
Looks like theres some drilling going on in the Apartment section of the Horgans key area, first bit of movement in quite a while.
Let us all collectively pray this is a sign things are going to start!
It's a meaningless collection of buzzwords.
What exactly is a "music venue for the Instagram generation?"
I'd like to see less people sticking up their bloody phones during performances, not more.
No I just find the unsupported criticism interesting.
Exactly. On a national level going on about housing is a vote winner but then on a local level they pander to the nimbys. Talking out both sides of their mouth.
All about populist politics with them. They know that by objecting to these type of projects, that they will pick up local votes!
It’s amazing that more don’t see through their game. The most incredible one for me was the Oscar Traynor Road one in Dublin where it was an 800 unit 100% social project and Sinn Fein objected on the basis that developers were benefiting. Who else is going to do the project?
Oh give over. Green party throwing its weight against development is influential.
You seem to be taking criticism of their action personally
Big job going on at Clifton Convalescent Home in Montenotte at the moment, think there was planning permission a while back to put residences on the grounds.
Again you'll have to explain how they've hindered anything. There's nothing to say that anything they said had any influence on the project. There were no conditions in the planning about keeping the building which is what he wanted, except to say that planning would only be granted if the replacement building improved the structure of the area which seems to be an entirely toothless condition unless you consider fenced off concrete an improvement.
Never said that he blocked. Said that they've been a blocker. That they've been a hindrance and hampering influence.
That they were granted permission (just have not commenced builds) is immaterial to the fact that they don't want development. Just like the insane attempt to keep a working port in a residential/commercial area. Designed to stagnate development.
I did read it, you said they haven't proceeded. The Sextant has proceeded, in the sense it was demolished in advance of works. You said he has blocked development. The only involvement we know of him having in the process is the submission, and it clearly had little effect since planning was granted.
IIRC his objection was to do with the plans not preserving part of the Sextant structure, nothing to do with the density or height. I can't find much about it online, do you have a link to his submission?
You just didn't bother reading what I write at all, did you?
Those examples famously were granted planning.
An objection is not the same as blocking development.
I would have very much agreed with you four years ago but its not planning objections that's stopping developments in Cork. Take the Sextant site, JCD knocked down an active pub 3 years ago, they have twice been granted full planning permission for projects on the site and still it sits as an empty lot in a prime area of the city. Knocking a pub for much needed apartments or even prime office space is progress, knocking a pub to leave an empty lot is vandalism.
It does matter though. It matters when the local green party rep seemingly objects to any high density development in the city.
Exactly what we need for a sustainable city
Its largely immaterial who objects because somebody, most likely a company in the vicinity of the site, will. ABP is in chaos and an objection could take 18 months+ to process. On top of that Gouldings need to be cleared form the site and set up in Marino Point. Early 2024 seems extremely optimistic for this project. For context the Kennedy Quay section of this development first applied for planning in Nov 2021 and is still with ABP.
He had objections to the Sextant, when they were proposing apartments there.
Objuctions to the custom house development.
No matter that they have not proceeded, he was against them.
Against the move of the port out of the city, with a nonsensical notion to have a dockland in the middle of residential development (ie not going to happen and would hamper any development)
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40178043.html
Who has blocked development down there? How?
Just googled Ollie Moran, I can't see the Greens objecting to this proposal. More likely as @namloc1980 says to be Sinn Fein.
They've been a blocker to development down there.
Much more likely to be Sinn Fein to be fair. They are professionals at objecting to apartments in particular at this stage.
Why?
Ollie Moran and Green Party objections incoming...
OCP drafting a planning application for 1,315-apartment scheme in 10 blocks up to 14 storeys high on the Goulding fertiliser site
What's been done to the front of MTU as seen when driving past on Rossa Avenue?
Yup.
Haha you wouldn't know by looking around.
Nearly every town and city here looks half-abandoned. They can't all be owned by people in nursing homes.
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