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.
This comes a few years after it rolled out a previous IT system that was supposed to include this function, among others, and went millions over budget.
Maybe it’s time to go back to an earlier plan to make the site into a proper park, a local councillor says.
The landlord, who’s trying to turn the building into homeless accommodation, says he plans to appeal the decision.
Meanwhile, rooms in the complex are available to rent for the St Patrick’s Day weekend at €369 a night.
Housing experts have begun to tease out and debate how a “reference rents” system might work.
The house is number 34, famously occupied by Take Back the City in 2018.
At one site, on Bonham Street, 57 “rapid-build” homes took almost four years to build and cost 51 percent more than originally agreed, an auditor’s report says.
The HSE isn’t maintaining them well, or doing necessary upgrades – maybe it’s time it hands them over to the council, tenants and local councillors say.
An inter-departmental group is going to have a think about it, and make recommendations in the first half of 2025, a Department of Housing spokesperson said.
Figures suggest that Luxembourg fund LRC RE-1 has been issuing eviction notices at a much higher rate than peers – and at a greater rate than in the sector overall.
It’s time to shift strategies, some say, and ramp up lower-density affordable-purchase housing there instead.