Start of construction at Guinness Quarter is near, says developer – as it seeks tweaks to planning permission
Proposed changes include dropping three-bedroom homes, in favour of more smaller ones in the block of future social housing.
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Council plans changes at Sandymount Green
Including making the street at the north-eastern side of the green one-way, widening the footpaths, and improving bike parking.
For the first time in decades, Dublin City Council looks set to change clampers
Dublin Street Parking Services has had contracts to clamp or tow illegally parked cars for the council since 2004.
Why can’t a survivor of domestic violence stay in their social home, rather than the perpetrator?
The Department of Housing says it plans to issue new guidance. But a solicitor says that for progress, the law has to change.
Department’s counter-proposal for Oliver Bond flats has major flaws, residents and councillors say
The Department of Housing recently batted back the council’s plan, devised alongside residents, for how to bring part of the aged complex up to modern standards.
Developer argues for building five apartments on derelict Grotto House site in Inchicore, without planning permission
But even if its appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála is successful, one of its owners has other, bigger problems: Cathal O’Connor has been sentenced to prison.
In Belmayne, challenges with parking complicate efforts to take in charge an estate
Residents have assigned parking at the moment – but Dublin City Council may look to end that.
Residents leave council “consultation” on fire-damaged community centre wondering what just happened
Several said they were very unhappy with the quality and comprehensiveness of information provided at the meeting about the Donore Avenue centre.
Community fund opens for Inchicore and Kilmainham groups
A pot of €185,000 is available, with €15,000 already allocated.
Would knocking Wood Quay for housing be complicated by the site’s Viking history?
Archaeologist Patrick Wallace, who led the 1970s excavation of the site, said he would love to see the area fully excavated – but he doesn’t support the demolition plans.
Council tenants ask why it can find money for a new HQ, but not to fix up their homes properly
“People are going ballistic,” says Gayle Cullen Doyle, on Tuesday on the phone. “It's really after rattling them.”
A new Bohemians initiative looks to help more Dubliners own where they work
It’ll take some cash but the aim is, little by little, to carve out a different local economy.
In Hartstown Park, councillors sound alarm over growing number of scramblers
At the start of April, gardaí got greater powers to seize the vehicles.