I’ve received an email from a local group that is ‘deeply concerned’ about @Hammersonplc ’s plans to redevelop the old Dundrum Shopping Centre (shown here). As is evident, you would want to be a time traveller from the 1970s to think that the centre remains appropriate.

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  1. I’ve received an email from a local group that is ‘deeply concerned’ about @Hammersonplc’s plans to redevelop the old Dundrum Shopping Centre (shown here). As is evident, you would want to be a time traveller from the 1970s to think that the centre remains appropriate.

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  2. Jesus, imagine putting down a concern about a reduction in retail space when it’s beside the budgets shopping centre in the country.

    NIMBYs are the absolute worst.

  3. Question, why is someone emailing an “investor relations” fella in bank of Ireland about it and why did he post a picture of the shipping centre and not the email?

  7. The old shopping centre is spectacularly shite looking. I was there for the first time last year and it’s stunning how out of place it looks.

  8. That thing is such an eyesore, I could never understand how it was allowed sit like that for so long in such a prime spot. Hopefully those dopey gits won’t be heeded and some apartments will go on the site.

  10. There’s a weird reply where a guy says the old Dundrum Shopping Centre reminded the person of the film Intermission.

    Which was shot in Rathfarnham Shopping Centre. And looks very little like Dundrum SC other than age.

  12. In all fairness with the apartments proposed having price tags of €700k+ i dont think it really matters to most of us what they do with it.

  13. Considering where this is, right beside a LUAS stop, easy access to a massive shopping centre, close to major employment centres, we should be mandating 10 stories minimum on anything replacing it. If someone wants to live in a village they should move to the countryside.

  15. I live in Belfast. Looking at that, I wish the Provos had donated their remaining semtex to the demolition industry. Tear that fucker down

  17. As someone who frequently has to be in the area, and grew up there. The main concerns for such a development is that the traffic is already horrendous from 3pm-7pm, the bus services haven’t changed in over 15 years where none of the services have increased their timetables, only the 175 which is mainly 30-60minutes not much different to 75, the only reliable transport is the luas, and a lot of the time that’s too full to get on from 7am-9.30am, and there’s barely any schools within a distance of not relying in public transport.

    If you’re working in Sandyford it’s grand, but locally there’s jackall jobs outside of retail, if you work somewhere like tallaght you have the highly unreliable 75, or have to spent 1.5 hours on the luas, or drive, which the main route is hell because of the school traffic.

    The area cannot manage another 1000+ people right in the middle of the town when theres current issues in traffic, transport and schools. It’s hell just on the weekends with everyone flooding to the centre.

  18. I live in and grew up in the dundrum area and the infrastructure just can’t handle that level of people being added to the area, traffic is horrendous most of the time going into town, the green line Luas is fit to burst every morning, on the weekends traffic is even worse since everyone is traveling to the shopping centre. Don’t forget there are also plans to build a couple of apartment blocks in the mental hospital down the road so thats an extra 1000+ people added to area on top of these plans and the worst of all, these apartments will probably go for 750k +

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