Is this that thing where developers call them “student accommodation” to get past planning laws, overprice them so students can’t afford them then convert them to shitty apartments?
>Local councilors frustrated that they can’t block well planned & much needed additional housing being built in their constituencies.
Good. Get fucked.
Participatory democracy is a good system. It’s the best that we’ve seen for sure. But it’s not perfect. The primary drawback is that leaders are incentivized to only value the concerns of current residents who are likely to vote in the next election, and in the planning process, likely to submit a planning observation. It bakes in short-termist thinking and a bias for the status quo.
People who would like to move to an area have no voice. People who have moved to an area since the last election have no voice. People who don’t vote have no voice (and yes, it’s their own fault, but still). And frankly, people with more time on their hands and who care most strongly about issues have more of a voice.
Housing is probably the area where the downsides of participatory democracy have the most extreme effects. In my view, SHDs are an appropriate response to that challenge.
Edit: In that last paragraph, housing is probably a bit limiting. It’s really land use policy in general, for housing, commercial uses, and transit.
It’s time to simply state that councillors are only a hindrance to the development of housing in Ireland. Every single proposal is too high or not dense enough, too overpriced or too much social housing, creating too much traffic or not having enough parking on site. In Dalkey/Killiney they’re trying to ban the development of any new housing whilst zoning for housing in flood plains. They are absolute shite bags and seem to make zero positive contribution.
Maybe I’m looking at the wrong details, but some of the language worries me more than the planning etc…
“bedspaces”
Literally space for a bed…?
Nearly 1000 additional student accommodation spaces but developers were complaining they couldn’t fill them last year.
Seems like they should be rejected anyway.
We should have another post of Catherine Connolly saying how she hates the fast tracking of development and the reduction of council control, and everyone responding “genius! Sock it to the government”
>A special SHD meeting for the area committee heard that councillors had a number of objections including … the height involved.
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Must be hard work blocking everything
OH NO!
Anyway…
Is this that thing where developers call them “student accommodation” to get past planning laws, overprice them so students can’t afford them then convert them to shitty apartments?
>Local councilors frustrated that they can’t block well planned & much needed additional housing being built in their constituencies.
Good. Get fucked.
Participatory democracy is a good system. It’s the best that we’ve seen for sure. But it’s not perfect. The primary drawback is that leaders are incentivized to only value the concerns of current residents who are likely to vote in the next election, and in the planning process, likely to submit a planning observation. It bakes in short-termist thinking and a bias for the status quo.
People who would like to move to an area have no voice. People who have moved to an area since the last election have no voice. People who don’t vote have no voice (and yes, it’s their own fault, but still). And frankly, people with more time on their hands and who care most strongly about issues have more of a voice.
Housing is probably the area where the downsides of participatory democracy have the most extreme effects. In my view, SHDs are an appropriate response to that challenge.
Edit: In that last paragraph, housing is probably a bit limiting. It’s really land use policy in general, for housing, commercial uses, and transit.
It’s time to simply state that councillors are only a hindrance to the development of housing in Ireland. Every single proposal is too high or not dense enough, too overpriced or too much social housing, creating too much traffic or not having enough parking on site. In Dalkey/Killiney they’re trying to ban the development of any new housing whilst zoning for housing in flood plains. They are absolute shite bags and seem to make zero positive contribution.
Maybe I’m looking at the wrong details, but some of the language worries me more than the planning etc…
“bedspaces”
Literally space for a bed…?
Nearly 1000 additional student accommodation spaces but developers were complaining they couldn’t fill them last year.
Seems like they should be rejected anyway.
We should have another post of Catherine Connolly saying how she hates the fast tracking of development and the reduction of council control, and everyone responding “genius! Sock it to the government”
>A special SHD meeting for the area committee heard that councillors had a number of objections including … the height involved.
Get up outa that to fuck
On the [same street](https://planning.agileapplications.ie/dublincity/application-details/143173), student accommodation is being built in breach of fire safety standards, with only a single stairwell for accommodation >20m in height.
That’s the quality of planning we get under SHD.
Good article on the lapsed standards, here:
https://www.dublininquirer.com/2021/08/25/fewer-stairways-and-more-open-plan-apartments-makes-dublin-high-rises-less-fire-safe-firefighter-says
You bypass the normal planning system, with an inadequate fast-track system, and you get shit and unsafe developments.