Blanchardstown SC to charge for parking

Don't think so. It had three hours for the price of one hour, so there was a fairly minimal charge for most visits. Tesco gave a voucher too if you spent > €30 (iirc).

Maybe Blanch will do something similar, at least for the first 12 months or so after the charges are brought in.

I see people on about carrying stuff and bikes being robbed

I linked my thread about the bike lockers by McDonald's etc

I had a 900 euro 29mtb in one of them with gloves and helmet and was free for ten minutes i was in the centre

You'd have to expect that the SC jas loked at what has happened in Liffey Valley and the square and decided it's worth it. There are a number of retailers that have stores in two of those places and would have been able to.give some sort of feedback on the affects of the charges on customers.

Maybe some customers stop going, maybe ones who are willing to pay go more frequently as traffic and parking improves?

I'm definitely more likely to stop by M&S in LV now than before. I pass by regularly and used to dread the idea of going in. Now there seems to be less traffic so i nip in for so M&S treats.

I'm going on what I'll go to and I'm guessing the old clientele of the centre did go for

Dunnes

Aldi

Lidl

Woodies

Home store

Sports direct

Mr price

Chemist warehouse

Penny's

Being on the larger size clothes etc shops never bothered me, then if that's what you want from a shopping centre and the price of clothing etc, paid parking won't put you off

I really think that's why the centre has started to push towards a dundrum lite model, with those not getting with the programme soon gone (high turnover on units). Not too mention the revamp with the disaster of the spinning doors as a "highlight"

try fitting a family of 5 on your crossbar

I agree. I think this is the approach the owners take.

They will expect some decline in car trips in the short term, but not enough to negatively impact the bottom line.

I wonder how the retailers feel about it? Ultimately its an additional charge on their customers but they wont be the beneficiaries. You can be sure there isn't a rental reduction for the tenants. And what will happen over in Westend - are they going to be like the retail park at Liffey Valley and not charge for parking. Will Lidl then be at an advantage over Aldi because I can park there for free. Its the way things have gone so no real surprise to see it happen here. I've only ever gone to Dundrum twice and Liffey Valley once since they started charging for parking. Can't be bothered faffing around paying and then worrying if I stay another five minutes is it going to cost me an extra €3. I will definitely alter my shopping habits. Not that I wont go to the center for big items, but will start going to newsagents for cards, pharmacy etc.

What a dumb idea parking added to petrol etc for driving there this will just push more and more people to go online there is nothing in Blanch that can not be got online. The people who will really feel this will be the shops in the center as footfall will be going right down they should be out in force telling the powers pushing this to cop on and to not charge a fee for parking. Personally I will be amazoning my xmas pressies and everything else this xmas - watch out for a number of business hitting the wall in blanch over 2026/2027 with this decision

Sorry it is a cost for anyone who needs parking as they will have to drive a car and these costs can be completely negated by using your phone to order what you need from say Amazon also saving the person the time it takes to drive there and back.

As for no concern for the shoppers I would be careful with that people will vote with the feet or their in this case their phones the high street shop is in a serious decline at the moment and as our younger generation who have been brought up on an ideology of online shopping and our older generation dying off or getting used to using their phones for ordering what they need this stat is going to continue trending with people choosing to buy online.

The owners and lack of concern for their patrons is their business but what it will mean is a pay cut for those working in the shopping center who will also have to pay the parking. Which means companies in there will have to pay more to keep staff which could have the knock on effect of no longer having a viable shop in the center. Liffey Valley springs to mind with amount of shop closures out that way since 2022 when they brought in parking fees.

I think from the plans linked in the original thread(might have been moved to this one) the retail parks will all become paid parking too

the multi story car park is stupid when it’s busy cause it routes all the leaving traffic in with the entry traffic… causing delays for everyone

Similar enough with some of the other car parks, it’s like they want to trap you in rather than find a way to get traffic out of there quickly.

The Ben Dunne car park is going to be crazy once this happens. I'd say they'll have loads of people changing their arm parking there and walking to the centre.

Maybe because of the food court, only today liffey valley was mentioned as a German kebab place coming to it

Blanch has been crying out for a food court and the last buzz (aside from drone delivery) I heard about the centre over a food place was kripsy kreme seven years ago (which lead too a lot of negativity and has long since died down)