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Infrastructure that never happened
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Proposal for redeveloping the area around Northside Shopping Centre from 2007, was to include a complete new shopping centre and apartments built around it. Would’ve been a godsend to the area which let’s face it isn’t exactly a pleasant or thriving environment.
What happened instead was a refurb of the existing shopping centre with some new exterior cladding and that’s pretty much it. Although there are apartments going up on the other side of the Oscar Taylor Rd which were part of this masterplan, on the green area which used to be linked to the shopping centre by a notorious pedestrian underpass which was filled in about a decade ago.
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Sticking with the northside of Dublin, here is the original plan for Ballymun from 1965.
A lot of this was built, but lots more was omitted. This would later prove to be one of the reasons for the decline of the experiment, the absence of promised services and amenities.
Also note there were originally nine 15-storey blocks to be built (indicated by diamonds) as opposed to the seven that were actually constructed.
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