Nobody caught illegally dumping yet by new north inner-city CCTV
But the scheme is a success, said a council official's report, as that shows the cameras are a deterrent.
But funding is not yet in place. “The plans are great. The most important thing is that they get delivered,” said one councillor.
Local councillors are proposing to rezone it for recreational use instead, so that the playing fields there can be opened back up and retained.
These were among the issues that Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their South East Area Committee.
The Mater Hospital, which owns the Four Masters Park, says it hopes to make the park accessible to the public in the near future.
Elsewhere, there are movements towards creating respite from noise pollution in urban centres. But there’s little research done in Dublin, says Sibéal Devilly.
Some residents who have been campaigning to make it a park, now worry that the plan is for much of it to be a cycle track, first and foremost.
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.
At a recent council meeting, Darryl Poole and Malcolm Denby rattled off a list of what they’d like to see in the park – and an idea for funding.
Rialto residents want more for their local green space, taken over by construction of the children’s hospital for years, than the council is now proposing.
At Rialto Cottages, residents are pushing the council to get a small private park situated in the middle of a cul-de-sac opened to the public.
They’ve been rescued from the darkness of council storage, restored and electrified. Ready for a new life in the park.
Plans for the park show an open pergola for small community gatherings, a space for markets, and plans for an edible garden over the next two to three years.