‘Not overlooking my kitchen’ – Green Party housing TD objected to 330 new homes on land next door to him

by PoppedCork

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  2. Apparently the proposed development wasn’t in line with the local area plan and the high court overturned the proposal. Not sure what the truth is here but I wouldn’t trust an indo journalist to be fair on the Greens or other left leaning parties.

  3. What an idiot, he also said an eviction ban turns Ireland into a communist state.

    Why is someone like that allowed to write manifestos for the greens? Is this really the most competent person the greens (a centre left party, mind you!) have with regards to housing?

  4. Fionnán Sheahan, there’s definitely no bias there

  5. ” “Everyone should have a roof over their head,” the Green Party manifesto says. Not included though is the caveat: “Unless that house overlooks the home of a Green Party TD.” ”

    That’s not fair, in fairness. Just because a planning is big, or even needed, doesn’t mean it should be automatically accepted. Everyone should have a right to object to a plan that affects their home. Many plans in their early drafts are shockingly bad. Just fit as much houses and profit there as possible.

    The important part is it’s then up to the council to analyse the objections, pick out legitimate ones and get the planners to rework the plans to find a compromise planning that delivers houses but doesn’t fuck up anyone else’s life.

  6. Not giving the Green Party a vote so if they are pulling that shite.

  7. The greens love objecting to housing developments almost as much as SF, they have members in Dublin objecting to housing being built on family land on the west coast.

  8. If that doesn’t prove every single politician is full of shit and only out for their own interests, I don’t what does!!

  9. Was the act of challenging the planning was as a local direct impacted by the development, or was the objection on Green Party headed paper?

    Was there any discussion when our minister for health chose to have a baby through private health system?

  10. Green Party TD saying “do as I say, not as I do.” Nothing to see here.

  11. Why do people call them TDs still when there’s no Dáil to be a member of? He was a TD and he may be a TD again soon, but he’s just Joe Bloggs for now no?

  12. Why cant this be overturned already? This practice needs be abolished like today. One person or small group of people can submit a complaint that “hey it will inconvienence me” and hundreds of homes are not built as a result? Are we not shooting ourselves in the foot here? 

  13. Green party are going to be demolished in this GE. A lot of hate for them it seems.

  14. That’s the second hit piece from the Irish Independent bringing up the past. I look forward to the FG/FF hit pieces. Would take up the whole newspaper!

  16. Can someone explain generally how this works? Because the article states that ABP rejected his objections but also that the high court overturned the planning permission.

    I would assume the high court decision is the higher instance decision here? Would that mean your man objected with ABP, his objections were rejected and he subsequently went to the courts?

  17. I should preface this by saying I completely and utterly hate the Green party and their hypocrisy.

    But in this case I don’t rightly blame deputy Duffy.

    I wouldn’t want 330 new housing units built right next to me either so it would be totally hypocritical to criticise him for it.

    330 houses worth of extra cars on the road in the morning, 330 houses worth of any entire social behaviour if it occurs, 330 houses worth of all the chaos from the various services and the maintenance of them.

    That story about the kitchen is probably rubbish, it’s just been used as cover to block the whole development. If planners had to re-orientate the windows there will probably be objections from the other side.

    This country is going arseways about dealing with the housing crisis. We are solely focused on increasing supply when we should also be looking at reducing demand to doze the have a genuine entitlement to them as opposed to welfare tourists.

    We can’t build housing for the rest of the world, it’s not possible and it’s not our responsibility.

  19. The planning observation by Duffy was made in 2021. This is not a front page story two weeks out from an election.

  21. Honestly why would FG/FF need a press team when the Irish media does their work for them?

  22. What a selfish scumbag. I know his submissions wouldnt have been the basis for the development being struck down, but thats not the point. NIMBYists are as much of a selfish scourge as antimaskers. Green politicians don’t have to be left-wing, but addressing the housing and climate crises with higher density builds instead of more awful urban sprawl is the absolute minimum I’d expect from a politician claiming to be Green.

    A lot of high density developments are being struck down on the basis of being in contravention of local government development plans which undermine density. We need Dáil legislation that overrides all of these and protects highrise developments from Dublin to Donegal. A common argument used against big builds is the increase in traffic they’d bring to areas, but why should the onus be on the developers to address this? The FFG controlled councils are responsible for and have made an absolute gridlock balls out of traffic in cities like cork and galway, maybe complain to them if you’re so worried about traffic?

  23. Ah Another one. These stories are designed to get the uneducated knuckle dragging NIMBY bashers all hot and bothered. I used to look up the details of these case online but stopped because 99% of the time the decisions were boring and perfectly reasonable.
    A headline like:

    “Developer lodged application that broke multiple rules in the development plan and got refused”

    Wouldn’t get the same interest from the public. Also funding from lobby groups like the PII would dry up.

  24. His main issue was that a two-story house within the project would overlook his kitchen. The development, ranging from two to five stories, also includes a cycle lane connecting to his estate and passing by his house. Although Duffy opposed the height of the new buildings, he previously obtained permission to convert his own attic into a third story, and his estate already includes a four-story apartment complex.

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