Council moves on plan for 5,000 homes on lands between Inchicore and Ballyfermot
The changes will be gradual, said a council planner. “It’s not an overnight, you know, deployment of four or five thousand units in an area.”
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Council not happy with proposals for building on old shopping-centre site in heart of Ballymun
“Responses received do not present an optimum solution for the site,” says a council report.
Groups giving out food to people on the streets would need to get permits under council plan
Meanwhile, those groups, like the Muslim Sisters of Éire, which runs a food table at the GPO, are “being inundated with demand”.
Vacancy Watch: The Lidl site on Ballybough Road
Locals want to know if Lidl is still going to build a promised supermarket there. In the meantime, it’s lying vacant and asbestos fell off a derelict building on the site into a neighbour’s garden.
A woman searches for space to offer yoga classes to minority women
With Superwomen Everywhere, she hopes to reach women who may avoid yoga because they feel out of place.
In Pelletstown, residents frustrated they can’t get their streets and footpaths improved as their estates are stuck in limbo
The developers have finished them, but years on the council has yet to take control of – and responsibility for – them. “It’s a major issue.”
Dublin 8 needs another secondary school, council committee writes to education minister
Residents have been campaigning for a new mixed, non-denominational school. The response so far? One’s just been built for area pupils – in Sandymount.
Ryanair staff required transit visas from Chinese residents of Ireland passing through the UK, even though they don’t need them
“I feel like they’re not familiar with visa policy,” says Huimin Ye, who missed her trip to Vienna to visit a friend as a result.
Council Briefs: Keeping Iveagh Markets closed, helping Botany Weaving stay in business, and battling weeds
These were some of the issues that councillors discussed at the latest meeting of their South Central Area Committee.
Off Abbey Street, councillors reluctantly agree to start moves to close laneway
“It is regularly used for intravenous drug use and is littered with needles and other drug paraphernalia,” says a council report.
To get information out of council managers, councillor considers seldom-used “sledgehammer”-like power
Councillors have been asking for months why the council decided to put its plan to install 350 shared on-street secure bike-storage lockers under review.
On Francis Street, the council is testing a way to help the city sop up rain
It’s one of many measures Dublin City Council is working on to reduce run-off, and heading off flooding as the climate changes.
Two years in, new approach to making the north inner-city safer still without plan of action
In 2021, Justice Minister Helen McEntee announced a “community-safety partnership” for the area. It hasn’t yet finished its plan for what to do.