Bike Storage Solution

Yes, but like I said earlier, it's not an eyesore because it's cycle storage. It's a permanent structure that requires planning permission. It doesn't matter what it's purpose is.

Comparing it to cars parked on the road is mildly ridiculous. Cars are not permanent structures, and they don't require planning permission.

I've no idea, but if they are permanent structures, them they are liable to the same rules. All it takes is someone to make the complaint.

The fact is, you can build or put a shed to the side or back of your house, but there are issues around doing it in the front garden.

A neighbour of mine has a steel shed in his front garden for a motorbike. Nobody in the estate has complained, so no action was taken, but if the planning authority were alerted to it, he would have to take steps to rectify it

Good enough for people with rusty bikes maybe.

Fiat 127s were good enough for people for decades, so let's get rid of all cars on the road bigger than a 127.

It's still there I cycle past it regularly. There's a car with flat tires and no tax parked around the corner from me outside someone's house for about 3 years now that I've reported a few times, council have done nothing. Probably because I'm in a less salubrious area than Clontarf and they just don't care.

Someone mentioned the same bike storage that's in Marino, and has been for years. I grew up in Clontarf, lived in Marino for a number of years. Generally speaking the residents if Marino would be more down to earth when it comes to the necessity of planning permission for a bloody bike shed. In Clontarf however its imperative to have a driveway for at least 2 Crossovers/SUVs.

I'd much rather people had a driveway to park in rather than cluttering up public roads.

Not so, particularly from a pedestrian's viewpoint.

I've been trying to get access to a bike bunker at the top of my road in Stoneybatter for 2 years with no luck. It's such a space saver not having two bikes in a small back garden - there's an absolutely huge demand for them. Seems like a really easy win to install a load more of them about the place.

From their website:

'BikeBunkers originated from a Dublin City Council BETA Project in 2015 which used the hashtag #BikeHangarBETA on social media. Here’s the report from that trial.'

2015! and here I thought I was bad waiting two years.

So 8 years ago they thought about this as an idea and it's still in a trial stage.