Might as well just scrap the metrolink. It’s never going to be built
DCC are an absolute scourge. They’re raison d’être seems to be to oppose and frustrate any new developments in the city at every turn.
This is just embarrassing at this point
> International investment firm Hines are building the “enabling works” at a cost of €12.5 million under a condition in a planning permission granted to them to develop the former Irish Nationwide Building Society’s headquarters on Grand Parade, in Ranelagh.
So what’s the investigation about? They have planning granted presumably by DCC. If Mannix wants to challenge another useful intervention in the city he can do so through the courts
If only one person objects, knowing fully well that it will delay everything at least 2 years because he misunderstood that an entrance doesn’t make it a whole new station, is it really controversial or is that guy just an idiot?
DCC hate Dublin
Owen Keegan moment
Wait, people want the final metro station to be farther away from them?
You got planning permission sure, but
**Yu-Gi-Oh transition screen**
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NEW PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN IRELAND! COMING SOON TO AN AREA NEAR YOU!*
With all your favourites;
N.I.M.B.Y. (feat The Objector)
Willfully Ignorant Local Councillors !
Concerned LOCAL Residents!
Local Government (Corrupt or just Inefficient?)
Major Construction Contractor ft. D-lays
Cost Inflation !
Licence subject to Planning Permission, Railway Order, High court challenge, judicial review and ECJ case!
*The Irish Government’s definition of “soon” may not match yours, or that of any English-speaker.
>Controversial
It’s not controversial, no.matter how often some in the media call it that. The consultation is done, get the planning permission in and railway order done. Get down to tunneling!
The works have planning permission so DCC’s investigation will be a quick waste of money. They will turn up, handed the planning docs, a quick inspection and leave.
The 12.5m cost was presumably agreed with Hines and approved by the department. It wouldn’t have gone through a normal tender project as it’s a Hines site, they aren’t going to build on top of other people’s work which they have no control over.
Nothing controversal about it, the developers are constructing a building and putting in the requried works so when/if metrolink goes in they wont have to do any extra works/demolish anything.
The South Dublin campaign against the Metro seems a bit like George’s Street’s successful campaign against pedestrianisation in the 1980s – which Grafton Street ‘lost’. Their winning the campaign will ultimately be their loss.
I don’t really get why you wouldn’t want a freaking metro.
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Might as well just scrap the metrolink. It’s never going to be built
DCC are an absolute scourge. They’re raison d’être seems to be to oppose and frustrate any new developments in the city at every turn.
This is just embarrassing at this point
> International investment firm Hines are building the “enabling works” at a cost of €12.5 million under a condition in a planning permission granted to them to develop the former Irish Nationwide Building Society’s headquarters on Grand Parade, in Ranelagh.
So what’s the investigation about? They have planning granted presumably by DCC. If Mannix wants to challenge another useful intervention in the city he can do so through the courts
If only one person objects, knowing fully well that it will delay everything at least 2 years because he misunderstood that an entrance doesn’t make it a whole new station, is it really controversial or is that guy just an idiot?
DCC hate Dublin
Owen Keegan moment
Wait, people want the final metro station to be farther away from them?
You got planning permission sure, but
**Yu-Gi-Oh transition screen**
How will you handle a RAILWAY ORDER?
NEW PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN IRELAND! COMING SOON TO AN AREA NEAR YOU!*
With all your favourites;
N.I.M.B.Y. (feat The Objector)
Willfully Ignorant Local Councillors !
Concerned LOCAL Residents!
Local Government (Corrupt or just Inefficient?)
Major Construction Contractor ft. D-lays
Cost Inflation !
Licence subject to Planning Permission, Railway Order, High court challenge, judicial review and ECJ case!
*The Irish Government’s definition of “soon” may not match yours, or that of any English-speaker.
>Controversial
It’s not controversial, no.matter how often some in the media call it that. The consultation is done, get the planning permission in and railway order done. Get down to tunneling!
The works have planning permission so DCC’s investigation will be a quick waste of money. They will turn up, handed the planning docs, a quick inspection and leave.
The 12.5m cost was presumably agreed with Hines and approved by the department. It wouldn’t have gone through a normal tender project as it’s a Hines site, they aren’t going to build on top of other people’s work which they have no control over.
Nothing controversal about it, the developers are constructing a building and putting in the requried works so when/if metrolink goes in they wont have to do any extra works/demolish anything.
The South Dublin campaign against the Metro seems a bit like George’s Street’s successful campaign against pedestrianisation in the 1980s – which Grafton Street ‘lost’. Their winning the campaign will ultimately be their loss.
I don’t really get why you wouldn’t want a freaking metro.
take your time lads