Vacancy Watch: a big site near Fatima Luas stop
Even as the government casts around for new land to zone for homes, it is unclear when this plot will be built out.
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With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme
“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.
Council plans to start major upgrades to Meath Street in August
The scheme for the iconic Liberties shopping street has been years in the making.
Council plans to turn St Werburgh’s church into 250-seat venue
The idea is for this spot next to Dublin Castle to host choirs, chamber music, trad music, poetry performances, and more.
In Irishtown, plans for a new sports centre with two swimming pools are taking shape
“The plan is that the new centre in Irishtown will be fully completed before the Markievicz centre closes” in Townsend Street, a council official said.
A puzzle: how to modernise a listed flats complex without reducing the number of homes in it
The Department of Housing has vetoed the council’s designs for the Herbert Simms-designed Pearse House in the south inner-city.
Works due soon to upgrade the busy hang-out streets that branch off Grafton Street
Plans include 3,500sqm of granite paving, 11 more trees, 10 public benches, and a bronze sculpture by artist Helen Hughes.
Councillors push for public swimming pool and sports hub for Swords
The council has just finished an audit of the sports needs of the county, which will inform any decision on new facilities for Swords, council officials said.
Donabate locals withdraw their High Court case against An Bord Pleanála
DP Crossroads had sought a judicial review of a planning permission granted for housing at Ballymastone.
In Balbriggan, council plans permanent one-way system for Quay Street and Seapoint
It’s the preferred option to make the local segment of the Fingal Coastal Way greenway project work, council officials say.
Vacancy Watch: The former school of wrestling in Phibsborough
At the end of last year, the warehouse on the banks of the Royal Canal was added to the derelict sites register.
To artists’ ire, a council poster shows the hands of AI
It’s a good moment for a conversation about local and national policies to ensure state bodies don’t switch out artists for AI, says illustrator Eva Kelly.
Plans for social housing on site in Howth put on hold due to cost increases, council says
Maybe it’s time to go back to an earlier plan to make the site into a proper park, a local councillor says.