Limerick improvement projects

Non-Statutory Public Consultation now open on Market Quarter & Cruise's Street Public Realm Upgrades;

I thought Back Lane was going to go pedestrian. It really serves no purpose as a road from what I can see.

Fantastic news. One thousand million dollars is some investment in a city that only a few years ago many people claimed was in 'terminal decline'. Pity, that meanwhile UL are unable to proceed with the Veterinary College. I presume recent controversies are impacting the university's plans to proceed with various developments, particularly their proposed, and very ambitious, Strategic Development Zone.

€1.2m for 70 signs with no oversight, I'm clearly in the wrong job haha! On a serious note though, these teething issues aside, it's good to see something like this being done. Simple idea with the potential to give people unfamiliar with the city a better idea of where they're going

https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2024/0919/1470962-limerick-bilingual-signs/

I would imagine that is just an example of the kind of thing will be there unless I missed something in the text. The council don't actually have any say on the exact buildings just the streetscape.

Not much difference in plans B and C so they might as well go with C which is a bit more far reaching. I'm disappointed there is no option to move the road all the way over to Patrick St.

Well yes but that's just because someone decided it was. Its not a law of nature.

If they go for a fully redeveloped Arthur's Quay they should get rid of the road between the shopping centre and park. You do this by redirecting it to a larger 2-way Patrick St. Nothing stopping that as the new road would be within the mapped area of this project.

Doesn't matter now anyway because it's not in the options.

Most recently the addition of wallpaper that looks like bricks.

Whoever owns that must have some seriously powerful and corrupt friends.

That "cladding" clearly isn't something you would have on a real operating building. Either ABP didn't go look at it or far more likely it's corruption. Same goes for a number of other dubious sites in the city.

I'd like to know more about the CPO process.

A derelict house next door to us was listed by Limerick City & County Council as one they were going to acquire via CPO in 2021. Nothing has happened since. There's no record of it on the ABP website and it's still empty. It had new windows and a roof put in about 3/4 years ago but left idle since.

We heard that the owner may have blocked the CPO or appealed it, which would make sense if he put the new windows and roof in, but it seems the whole thing is stuck in limbo.

The Derelict site register for Limerick is available for inspection in the Council’s offices. There is a summary of the register available online. You can also speak to them with queries regarding specific properties.

More info here:

https://www.limerick.ie/council/services/housing/derelict-and-vacant-sites/derelict-sites

It's very difficult to repurpose such office buildings for apartments, that building is so old and oddly shaped that it would simply be much better to demolish it and start over. It's a substantial plot of land that could be utilised really well in the very centre of the city as a green space/park to enable a better second space for people to enjoy on the river side - think about the expanded special events that could then be put on there, like Christmas markets and River Fest, if Arthur's quay was improved and had all that extra space along with it and the entire area was pedestrianised. Would be like a town square, something badly needed.