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Ghost towns !

  • 30-04-2010 12:50PM
    #1
    anto2
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    Anyone see the report today ,on BBC WORLD about the numerous Ghost town in Ireland ?
    It focused on an estate of 5 bedroom houses in Co Carlow which is nearly totally empty .
    They said that 1 in 5 houses in Ireland are now empty .They concluded that the Governament would have to knock some of these new houses down ( that were built in out of the way places ) ,shurely not ?


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  • #2
    AnonoBoy
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    Please stand for the national anthem.


  • #3
    ScumLord
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    Calling them ghost towns is a bit of a stretch. They're usually estates just at the edge of a town.

    Just about any estate built in the last 10 years will probably have to be knocked, the quality in them is appalling. I'm sure there's going to be plenty of work fixing them in the coming years.


  • #4
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    Why don't they convert these housing estates into halting sites rather than knocking them down. :p


  • #5
    recylingbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,001 ✭✭✭recylingbin


    BOO!


  • #6
    stovelid
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    I'm getting sad just remembering the good old days before the ghost towns. :(


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  • #7
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    stovelid wrote: »
    I'm getting sad just remembering the good old days before the ghost towns. :(
    I'm getting sad just remembering the good old days ;)


  • #8
    Captain Darling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    I was driving through Ballintubber yesterday and there was a few half built houses, left to crumble. It was pretty sad to be honest. Bit like a post apocalyptic landscape, and that was only the impression given from the locals!


  • #9
    msg11
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,572 ✭✭✭msg11


    If there's something strange
    in your neighborhood
    Who ya gonna call?
    GHOSTBUSTERS


  • #10
    gravityisalie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 149 ✭✭gravityisalie


    pimp them out to film studios for zombie apocalypse movies!!!!


  • #11
    schween
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭schween


    I love the "Last few houses remaining!" signs on many unsold estates.


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  • #12
    GavRedKing
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    Burn them all down, fire makes everything better :pac:


  • #13
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,755 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    anto2 wrote: »
    Anyone see the report today ,on BBC WORLD about the numerous Ghost town in Ireland ?
    It focused on an estate of 5 bedroom houses in Co Carlow which is nearly totally empty .
    They said that 1 in 5 houses in Ireland are now empty .They concluded that the Governament would have to knock some of these new houses down ( that were built in out of the way places ) ,shurely not ?

    where have you been? this is old old news


  • #14
    Gone Drinking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,814 ✭✭✭Gone Drinking


    Paranormal forum


  • #15
    Biggins
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    stovelid wrote: »
    I'm getting sad just remembering the good old days before the ghost towns. :(
    You mean while the Celtic Tiger was in town, only to leave after crapping in the streets and leaving NAMA?


  • #16
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Biggins wrote: »
    You mean while the Celtic Tiger was in town, only to leave after crapping in the streets and leaving NAMA?

    Don't beat on my Specials puns, man. :)


  • #17
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    Please stand for the national anthem.
    It's a good anthem too....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTo7VHFvu6o


  • #18
    CreepingDeath
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    anto2 wrote: »
    They said that 1 in 5 houses in Ireland are now empty .

    That's true, there's a load of us at work now.
    But don't tell the burglars that.


  • #19
    AssaultedPeanut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 806 ✭✭✭AssaultedPeanut


    That's not a Ghost Town this is a Ghost Town.

    This picture is very creepy, also the same city


  • #20
    mikom
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Why don't they convert these housing estates into halting sites rather than knocking them down. :p

    Run_to_da_hills, please stay off the boos.


  • #21
    Biggins
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    stovelid wrote: »
    Don't beat on my Specials puns, man. :)

    :p Too late. :D


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  • #22
    Gknit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Gknit


    I'm not sure if this link will work or if you're on Facebook but you might find this interesting: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=111935642173705

    Basically "CUBE(Campaign to Use Buildings that are Empty) is a broad campaign launched by Carbery Housing Association (CHA) to respond to the "inconvenient truth" over 345,000 properties standing empty in Ireland (almost 1 in every 5) as a result of the houisng market collapse, at the same time as around 60,000 households languish on local authority housing lists. CHA is currently campaigning locally to have domestic properties leased to us by private and public landlords, and preparing to repair these properties by borrowing funds (repayed from rents) and with the help of volunteers and of employment schemes set up in the wake of growing unemployment."


  • #23
    smellslikeshoes
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    They won't be knocked down, prices will just fall until they are actually worth buying.


  • #24
    anto2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 221 ✭✭anto2


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    where have you been? this is old old news


    In Asia for the last 2 years but back in Ireland for a holiday next month to see the Ghost towns .He He .The story was played a couple of times today on BBC world .
    They interviewed one of the few residents on the luxury estate who had moved down from Dublin .She was not a happy camper .
    I agree with the poster who said that the prices will fall so low that they will end up being sold in the future ,rather than knocked down .


  • #25
    generalmiaow
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    smellslikeshoes wrote: »
    They won't be knocked down, prices will just fall until they are actually worth buying.

    Do we not need another 400,000 people to exist first?


  • #26
    Latchy
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    stovelid wrote: »
    I'm getting sad just remembering the good old days before the ghost towns. :(

    I saw them at a venue on upper Georges Street (which is I think now a snooker hall) with Dr Feelgood on the bill to .:cool:


    Now were are we again ,oh yeah Ghost Towns


  • #27
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,305 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    smellslikeshoes wrote: »
    They won't be knocked down, prices will just fall until they are actually worth buying.

    NAMA will have to start paying people to buy in some of them, then!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



  • #28
    starbelgrade
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    gavredking wrote: »
    Burn them all down, fire makes everything better :pac:

    They tried that in Iceland and look what happened. Volcano, my ass. :pac:


  • #29
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
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    Why knock them down? How does that make any sense?


  • #30
    Gunmonkey
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    I say just turn the most isolated ones into urban panitball areas, alot more fun than running round a forest all the time.

    And they will only be demolished if they become unsound (if half werent built that way already), the government is hoping the housing market will jump back up again so they can start selling again and their friends can come back from their extended vactions in spanish villas to plan more estates in the middle of nowhere. Its all they know.


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  • #31
    starbelgrade
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    Lillie Microscopic Greyhound wrote: »
    Why knock them down? How does that make any sense?

    The so called "ghost towns" are in fact ghost estates. I can't remember the exact definition of how they are adjudged to be so, but it's something like an estate of over 40 houses with less than 10% occupancy.

    The proposal to knock down houses doesn't apply to unnocupied houses, but to estates that are empty & incomplete and where the developer has either gone bankrupt or doesn't have the money to finish them.

    In certain cases, it'd be cheaper to knock the buildings down, rather than complete them as their market value on completion would not be worth the investment.

    That's my understanding of it, from what I've heard on Newstalk & Matt Cooper.


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