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In an improvement, the council is seizing and euthanising fewer horses
Because fewer are being kept illegally due to improved enforcement and greater awareness of horse owner responsibility, says a council spokesperson.
In Drumcondra, five apartments built without planning permission were used as short-term lets
A council inspector said the homes were “substandard on almost every metric”.
Council briefs: Merrion Square tea rooms (and toilets), and the latest battle for Moore Street
These were among the issues discussed by the council at meetings this week.
New social-housing complex on Fishamble Street should be named after Dr Noel Browne, councillors say
Peter McVerry Trust has plans to build 10 social homes on a long derelict council-owned site, for an estimated €4.3 million.
No cost-rental homes under construction in Dublin city
A Dublin City Council report suggests just 75 cost-rental homes will be built in its area by the council, LDA and AHBs between now and the end of 2024. And that may be an overestimate.
Two north inner-city football clubs team up to push a vision for a new sports complex
Belvedere FC and East Wall Bessborough FC say they can raise €4 million to build it at Alfie Byrne Park if the council will give them a lease on the land.
Dublin councils are ramping up homeless accommodation
But they’re also pushing back against those begging to access it, asking if there’s anywhere else they can go instead.
The next phase of Grangegorman redevelopment could include 2,000 affordable student beds
The development agency is exploring that idea with TU Dublin, said its CEO Ger Casey at a recent council meeting.
In a park in Swords, there’s a new public toilet but still nowhere to pee
“It looks like a public convenience … [but] it’s only a wannabee public convenience and is really just a big wooden box,” Mark Graham wrote to the council.
Council relaxes rules for buying homes of social tenants facing eviction and homelessness
It expects to buy around 250 homes in the city through the scheme this year, said a council official last week. It’s unclear how that meshes with central government targets.
Market campaigner says the public has a right to access the city’s Victorian fruit and vegetable market
The public has a “market right” – a right to access the market – and that is a common-law property right protected by the constitution, says Toby Simmonds.
In Santry, a group has new ideas for how to connect the community and build an identity
A biodiversity superhighway, a village centre, feeder buses to run around housing estates and a new athletics museum are among the ideas pitched.