Planning go-ahead for soccer pitches and much more at Alfie Byrne Road
“It started out as a football project and it's turned into a game changer for the area and surrounding areas,” says John Hayden, the chairman of Belvedere Football Club.
Dublin City Council has already retrofitted 77 percent of its houses. (That’s not including flats.) Councillors want the money to speed it all up.
If the council can find land for deals with private developers, “why can’t it be found for Traveller homes?” asks Shay L’Estrange of the Ballyfermot Travellers Action Project.
Councillors were generally sceptical of plans for 321 build-to-rent homes on a plot in an industrial estate in Jamestown Road in Finglas.
“They talk about progress but there isn’t really any progress, in my opinion,” says a residents’ representative, Sally Flynn.
The owners have a plan to redevelop the site, and wanted to demolish the two houses, but the council told them they couldn’t.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their January monthly meeting on Monday.
The move is based on research predicting a falling share of one-person households in the Liberties and the north inner-city.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their housing committee.
The plans call for the current 113 old homes, many of which are now empty and boarded up, to be replaced with 163 new ones.
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council decided in 2019 not to build housing for Travellers on the site, saying it planned to sell it. Now it’s back to housing again.
It’s a problem the government will have to navigate as it rolls out a promise to introduce minimum BER ratings for private rentals by 2025, “where feasible”.
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their October monthly meeting, on Monday.