“It seems crazy,” says Kieran Rose, a former council planner. “An aparthotel is a totally different use.”
Baked to Death is emblematic of what some have pointed to as a growing baking culture in the west Dublin suburb.
Michael Kelly wants to build two padel courts, with a café, toilets and bike parking near the Black Horse Inn, but Waterways Ireland says it owns part of the site.
In a letter earlier this year, the director of the Residential Tenancies Board flagged issues with its current ability to enforce the law.
They plan to set up a “special purpose vehicle” to push forward the revamp. Councillors had questions about where they come in.
"I have — to quote the U.S. poet Keith S. Wilson — become a repentant defender of pigeons."
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The scheme could provide long overdue retail and community space in the neighbourhood.
The council plans to pilot “pollarding” 250 hornbeams across the city, said the city tree officer at a recent meeting.
Two applications have gone in in recent months for plots on the edges of the big Jamestown Business Park.
“The biggest thing that happens here and the most fantastic thing to see is people feel they own it,” says organiser Kamil Che.
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