Issue linked to 1941 Nazi bombing sees councillors stall €1 transfer of North Strand property
Are there any other properties in the area that might face similar ownership complications? a councillor asked at a recent meeting when the case came up.
These were two of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at their April monthly meeting on Monday.
While delayed, the project on Emmet Road at St Michael’s Estate is inching forward, and the current plans show 548 cost-rental and social homes – up from 484 last year.
The owners had earlier planned to build student housing there, but changed their minds and left the run-down pub vacant for years.
A recent review suggests ways to speed up the process including standard design layouts, fast-tracking some projects and improving communication.
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.