Two councillors have lodged complaints with the council against independent Councillor Gavin Pepper. But there’s been no conclusion yet to those processes.
Councillors say they plan to meet with Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy sometime in the next month. But it looks like it’ll be hard to chart a path to an agreement.
At meetings earlier this week, Dublin city councillors also approved a local area plan for Cherry Orchard, and discussed about how to tackle illegal parking on Montpelier Hill.
Part of the discussion focused on why the council had opted for affordable homes to sell, rather than to rent – and whether it was possible to revisit that.
Martin Keane told the council he probably didn’t need to highlight his “considerable financial resources” and “full legal team, ready, willing and able to take on this challenge”.
Some said they’d sought, and gotten, assurances that it wasn’t suitable for housing. Others questioned whether it could have been used for something else.
Local residents and councillors have grown concerned about delays. But the council’s head of planning, Richard Shakespeare, says work could start as soon as late October.
Irina Lapshina and Jurij Pučkov have been given notices to quit. They want greater assurance that, after the landlord refurbishes, they’ll be able to move back.
Sharing its vision so far for the Player Wills and Bailey Gibson sites was a welcome first step, said one councillor. “But the devil will be in the details.”
