More than 100 HAP tenants in Dublin lost their homes after poor conditions flagged
“An innocent tenant, through no fault of their own, ends up back homeless because a landlord doesn’t carry out the works,” says one councillor.
One landowner says that he doesn’t make that much from it, and is eager to develop the building.
Grosvenor Lodge is so rundown that the council is looking at adding part of it to its derelict sites register.
But that’s happened before, says a councillor, and the council decided it didn’t meet the legal definition of derelict.
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors dealt with at their January monthly meeting on Monday evening.
Dublin City Council said this week that the building doesn’t fit the law’s definition of “derelict” – and that the council has not moved to put the building on its list of derelict sites.
When we asked readers what they wanted candidates running for Dublin City Council to talk about, dereliction and vacancy were among the top-10 most-mentioned issues.
Dublin City Council can force owners of derelict sites to sell to them, but it has only done that rarely in the past. This year, things are beginning to change.
Like many buildings across the city, the historic pub has been left vacant and allowed to crumble. The developer says it’s no longer possible to preserve it.