In my area planning for two apartment buildings are being opposed for pretty weak reasons. Hopefully they’ll come back with an improved application and get them through. Great to see sense prevailed here.
I really fucking despise this argument of “transient communities” because they’re apartments and rentals, and not semidetached houses.
We need to normalise people renting apartments as homes, and stop trying to make out that they’re not members of your community. Stable rents and longer leases will also lead to people spending multiple years in places and not being turfed out due to increases, which surprisingly would be as a result of building more units.
Great to see the average social housing price at 323k instead of 500k for a change
Dublins a city. Why shouldn’t a city have apartments?
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In my area planning for two apartment buildings are being opposed for pretty weak reasons. Hopefully they’ll come back with an improved application and get them through. Great to see sense prevailed here.
I really fucking despise this argument of “transient communities” because they’re apartments and rentals, and not semidetached houses.
We need to normalise people renting apartments as homes, and stop trying to make out that they’re not members of your community. Stable rents and longer leases will also lead to people spending multiple years in places and not being turfed out due to increases, which surprisingly would be as a result of building more units.
Great to see the average social housing price at 323k instead of 500k for a change
Dublins a city. Why shouldn’t a city have apartments?