An Post has been struggling to find a new contractor in the area, said its spokesperson on Monday. “Even finding a suitable premises has been a huge issue.”
“Any organisation that does not rigorously enforce Garda vetting for every adult working with children is failing in its fundamental duty of care," says Terry Dignan, of the Children's Residential and Aftercare Voluntary Association.
“I believe this application is the definition of developer-led planning,” said Fine Gael Councillor Ray McAdam, at a meeting of the Central Area Committee on 22 July.
For one tenant, advertised rents for similar apartments in a neighbouring block are much lower than hers, raising the possibility of a downward rent review.
Almost 400 of the apartments proposed for former council land at O’Devaney Gardens would not have adequate daylight in living room-kitchens, shows a daylight sunlight report.
Car-parking fees and service charges are why it looks like rents have gone up 59–85 percent in less than four years in some apartments in the south inner-city.
A receiver sold Shannon Chance’s apartment in Smithfield to a big company landlord for a price well below what she says she’d have paid to buy it herself.
Landlords are left to self-regulate their use of the tenants’ data hoovered up through the apps and systems in big rental complexes – unless someone brings a complaint to the Data Protection Commission.
At a meeting of the council’s housing committee, a council official gave a rundown of how the council is trying to up the number of homes it builds – and why it opts for other routes to get social homes too.
Part of the government’s argument for encouraging company landlords to buy into Ireland is that it will “professionalise” the market. Some tenants for one big landlord say that’s not their experience.
