What’s happened with Manna’s plan to expand its drone delivery service across Dublin?
It still only has one base, in Dublin 15, with planning permission – and that’s due to expire this year.
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Council should buy the old TU Dublin site on Kevin Street and build homes, say councillors
The council says no because the planning permission is for offices. A new owner could apply to change that.
Councillors welcome plans for small step forward on the stalled regeneration of Dolphin House
Phase 1b of the project to eventually build upwards of 700 homes on the site envisions building 30 fronting onto Dolphin’s Barn Road.
Council cuts back efforts to turn vacant office and commercial buildings into social homes
Instead, it’s moving staff to focus on other housing projects that will deliver more homes, said Dublin City Council’s head of housing.
Council pauses plans for social housing on Howth site, after price tag rises to €750,000 each
This isn’t viable, so another use for the site will have to be found, a council official said.
A scheme to speed up social housing has barely been used by Dublin councils
Councils are reluctant to use the single-stage process because they take on more risk if something goes wrong, says Sinn Féin TD and housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin.
Advocates are pushing for survivors of industrial schools to get priority for social housing
Councillors face tough decisions as vulnerable and desperate groups make their cases for priority amid a shortage of social homes.
Should the Land Development Agency build some private housing on public land?
The government is reportedly looking into the idea.
With their funding halved, Fingal councillors join chorus begging for more money for tenant-in-situ scheme
“I just cannot get over that they didn’t maintain the same level of funding at a minimum, because it’s a bloody great scheme,” says Fine Gael Councillor Tom O’Leary, of the homelessness-prevention scheme.
Time and again, long-term tenants evicted and their homes turned into homeless accommodation
A spokesperson for the Dublin Region Homeless Executive said its priority was “to ensure there is an adequate provision of accommodation for people experiencing homelessness”.
If councils rezone more land, will it really speed up house-building?
There is debate over whether there is a shortage of residentially zoned land and what’s holding homes up.
Councils will get targets for specific types of homes this year. Should they use zoning to meet them?
Some say that the different types of tenure should be laid out in master plans or zoning to meet the housing needs in an area.
A puzzle: how to modernise a listed flats complex without reducing the number of homes in it
The Department of Housing has vetoed the council’s designs for the Herbert Simms-designed Pearse House in the south inner-city.