Another excuse for a load of traffic lights. Place will be a nightmare.
Absolute nightmare, when you factor in that the M28 project will see the roundabout at Rochestown Church replaced by lights and another set at the base of the Rochestown Road road on ramp to the N40. By my count, when driving from the top entrance to Mount Oval to the Rochestown Road at the entrance to Rochestown Rise, you will encounter 6 or 7 sets of lights.
Dockland's project given green light:
Let’s hope it’s built before the planning permission lapses in 10 years time
Remember that this is all dependent on Gouldings finding a new home. If the Marino Point plan doesn’t work out for them, it’ll be hard to come up with a Plan B given that they’re wanting to build a fertiliser storage facility.
Marino Point is yet another project bogged down in bureaucracy in An Bord Pleanala. Well over a year awaiting an outcome of the appeal with no decision date.
Yep. Mind you, even if Gouldings moved out in the morning, nothing may come of this for years. The docklands now has several sites on which planning permission has been granted for very large developments but absolutely nothing has happened.
It's the way it is in Cork. Prism mothballed, Custom House dead, residential block on Horgan's Quay going nowhere. Such a shame.
But yet, it's all the fault of Bord Pleanala.
The country is awash with planning approvals ...
The Sextant was demolished and nothing has happened,
Roads were closed for the Prism and nothing is happening any longer,
Custom House is pure pie in the sky (but has permission),
BAM have done nothing with the tax office but couldn't wait to demolish it.
See plans for Carbery House on South Mall to be converted into apartments. Hope this comes to pass. Be nice to have more options to live in our city center nationwide. Help bring a bit more life to them after 6 and good for local businesses too
I have more hope for this than the major projects, the small ones tend to happen
Article from Thursday's Examiner, on foot of official opening of Crow's Nest, which summarises progress on student accommodation projects in snotboogies previous post.
Completed:
Crow's Nest Victoria Cross €35m 255 beds (€137k per bed)
Ashlin House Bandon Rd €53m 554 beds (€95k p.b.)
Bróga House Washington St €35m 280 beds (€125k p.b.)
Coleman Court North Main St €25m 280 beds (€89k p.b.) ... see students moving in today although internal construction not fully finished.
Remaining:
Bottleworks Carrigrohane Rd 623 beds (Due to open in Jan 24)
Mardyke Walk 79? beds
Granted planning:
Rossa Avenue 205 beds
Dennehys Cross 136 beds
Victoria Cross 243 beds
Limbo/outstanding:
Top Car Garage Site Orchard Rd 222 beds ... I think this has been absorbed into next application:
Finbar Galvin Dealership site Victoria Cross Rd 206 bed
I was looking through the new Bus Connects routes and looking at streets that will no longer have buses on them, and thinking what could the space be re-allocated to
South Terrace: There is currently a bus lane. This should be replaced by a two-way cycle lane (like South Mall) to link up with the two-way cycle lane on Anglesea Street and the cycle lanes on either side of Infirmary Road
South Mall: There are a two big bus stops. There isn't really a need for spill out spaces for restaurants (given there are very few on the street) and we don't need more parking on the street. Maybe landscaped areas?
Grand Parade: Realistically it will probably just be the taxi rank being extended, but I'd love to see the South Mall extended all the way to Washington Street's cycle lanes (and put the two cycle lanes on one side). They might as well remove the left turning lane from Grand Parade to Washington Street given it's always full of trucks anyway.
George's Quay: The (unused as it's a car park most days) bus lane should be replaced by a two way cycle lane, linking to my proposed two way cycle lane on South Terrace, the westbound cycle lane on Sullivan's Quay and the two way cycle lane on South Mall
Oliver Plunkett Street Lower: Remove the bus lane for trees
Noticed the small car park on Grattan St is back open for the first time in years now that Coleman Court is mostly finished. Was full of cars this morning.
I wasn't sure if that would ever reopen!
MacCurtain Street full again tonight of parked cars in loading bays, cars at the bus stop and a car on the footpath right outside Four Star
Bring back towing! Seriously!
The responsible authorities in Ireland have zero interest in enforcing illegal parking. The Gardaí generally couldn't be bothered and traffic wardens only care about checking legal parking spots for non-payment as a revenue protection measure, and they don't work evenings anyway. It's a farce.
Saw an article yesterday. Seems there actually is some enforcement.
https://www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-news/crackdown-footpath-parking-cork-city-27783257
Construction of 250+ residential units at Blackrock Villas starting in November
Great news.
Noticed on the way to work that development on this site for over 200 houses has picked up pace over the last few weeks.
Apartments there seems a little bit excessive to me: they're really not near anything. No public transport, no jobs, no amenities, no shops, no restaurants, cafes, bars or community area. It looks like commuter sprawl to me. What am I missing here? It looks like the opposite of a "15 minute neighbourhood". I know we need more housing, but tacking on more estates at the edge of suburbia doesn't really seem like a good idea.
Why can we still not delete?
Meanwhile someone in Blackrock has been told to remove a bike box from their front garden.
They should replace it with a rusty old broken down van to keep their bikes in. See how the complaining neighbours like that!
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41236213.html
Springville House has its official opening
There was a write-up about this project in the IT in June
And keeping with the 'conversions' theme
Looking at Street view that road seems to be full of cars on the footpath. Don't know how a bike box lowers the tone but the objector hasn't any problem with cars blocking the path.
Assuming you are replying to the post I made on the development in Ballyvolane, I must point out some of what you are missing. The number 207 city bus route goes straight along the road in front of the new development I put a link to(the Ballyhooley road). It is in the city since the boundary was widened and my parent's house which is less than 200metres on the city centre side of the new development is 30minutes walk to Patrick street for me, so not far from many Cork city employers. Lidl is next door to my parents house and there is also a large Dunne's stores within a few hundred metres. There is the Fox and Hound's bar at the cross roads between Dunne's stores and Lidl and a cafe in the Dunne's shopping centre that also has a pharmacy and butcher and there are more commercial units including a take away and restaurant at the Fox and Hounds site. There are also schools and sports amenities within walking distance. Do you call it "commuter sprawl" because it is a development on the north side of the city?
I'm glad you wrote that , i thought i must have gotten the location wrong ( based on the previous poster)
Its a medium sized development, on the edge of the city -yes , but also an existing community, with schools, sports facilities,and shops,
Of course everyone will be driving everywhere,because that's what we all do
There will be houses all the way out to whites cross in anothere few years.
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