NIMBYs have made a video about a new development in Dundrum, and it’s hilarious

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  1. It’s incredible really. What did those people do when the shopping centre was being built? An 8 years building site honestly sounds great for businesses in the area. Anyone who lives or works near a building site know that a huge portion of builders buy their lunch everyday. Lucozade and chicken fillet rolls are their life blood. Especially now since disruption with building sites is minimal these days bar the odd delivery. Great video all the same

  2. Interesting, I can see how they wouldn’t want those “tall” buildings to spoil the view of all of the … *checks video* … roads and car parks.

  6. Anyone living in Dublin who calls their area a “village” should be made to move to an actual village.

  10. That really is hilarious; if you didn’t know the source, you’d think it was a promotional thing. “Check out these awesome new apartments! Taller than the bridge! As tall as Liberty Hall! Bigger and better than that sad little tower they’re building in Sandyford! Improvements to the surrounding area! Creating construction jobs and boosting the economy in the area for years to come!” Are there actually people who’d watch this and think “Yeah, that all sounds terrible…”?

  11. This is the kind of development that Dublin needs: high density housing close to quality public transport.

    That said, the green line needs a capacity upgrade.

  12. Only part I’ll agree on is traffic and transport in the area. You can’t get on the LUAS pre covid in the morning and not enough buses. Also the traffic is bloody horrendous as it is. If they can solve those issues I’d be happy with it.

  13. They obviously wanted the Imperial March and googled “Star Wars theme” and just went with the first one.

  14. Am I meant to look at this and think it’s bad? Because the music and general presentation all seem to be in favour of this new development. Like it just looks like the residents support it.

  16. Dundrum “village” is a bit of a kip tho. Imagine complaining about your area getting a makeover for fucks sake.

  17. Let me just preface this by saying I’m not a NIMBY at all, and completely in favour of new high-density residential developments around Dublin, but curious how the existing shitty infrastructure (narrow roads, Luas) around that area would actually cope with this without self-destructing?

  18. But I don’t get it. Why wouldn’t they just say “It’s not affordable housing, the last thing we need right now is more luxury apartments for the rich”? It’s the tried and true best approach for getting not-a-nimby-but guys on board.

  19. “taller than the bridge”

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    wtf type of fuckery is this that people are constructing buildings taller than bridges. Where will it end. Next they’ll be building things taller than Stephen Merchant.

  20. The proposed building’s shadow might be slightly exaggerated. It’s like a solar eclipse located entirely in Dundrum “village”.

  21. Despite the impact of the video (looks like a much-needed development) would still hang my hat in NIMBY-ism prevailing

  22. I live in the area and the only thing they have a point on is the traffic – it’s pretty fecking bad even now. Given that I’m not a simpleton, I can see that the obvious solution to that would be better transport infrastructure – but of course the NIMBYS would complain about that too.

    Anyone protesting against high density housing in a sensible area (and this is a sensible area, it’s close enough to the city centre and literally right on the Green Line) is a gobshite. Anyone objecting to it on the grounds of their own house being devalued is an even bigger gobshite that as far as I’m concerned should have their house taken off them and sold to fund the development.

  23. There is a lot of disinformation spreading about this development. Local residents are not objecting to housing on the site, they are objecting to the lack of facilities that are not being included as part of the development such as dr. surgeries, schools, playgrounds, community centres etc. The development is being targeted at young professionals according to the plans. 3 bed apts are currently being priced at just under 800k and two beds at 550k according to the Irish Times. The apts. will likely be more expensive than many of the houses in the area. It’s unclear at the moment though what % of the apts will even be offered on sale and what might be build to let. So if you think you can afford that and it will solve your housing problems, more luck to you.

  25. I think developers deliberately submit a first plan that’s far too big because they know any plan will have objections and they’ll have to haggle, then they can say “ok let’s compromise, we’ll do 6 stories instead of 12”, and the local objectors think they’ve won.

    A few years ago there was a proposal submitted to the old site of the foxhunter off the N4 that was around 20 stories, which was absolutely never going to happen. The whole thing ended up being scrapped and wowburger are in there now lmao

  27. This is what local control gets you. The people who’d like to live in these homes have no voice in the debate.

  28. NIMBYs are gobshites. Live next door to one. Even pulled their NIMBY shite on family who needed the help. smh ….NIMBYs should be ashamed of themselves. ….if your a NIMBY and read this kindly go f*** yourself

  31. Obviously bullshit. The sun doesn’t shine enough in Ireland to cast a shadow. At least not since the Celtic Tiger years (crying noises).

  32. I love how on 0:46 they highlight the shadows cast on their front gardens. Like for a few hours a day, they’ll have less sun. It’s not like the sun will forever be blocked out by this development.

    If you don’t want new buildings around you, move to a historic area or the countryside. You can’t just buy a house in Dundrum and be shocked at the thought of them building apartments across the road.

    Thing is too, the backlash against these sort of appeals makes anyone with a genuine concern seem like they are just being dicks. Let’s say if the area has a major traffic problem or sewer capacity issue or something else, that isn’t addressed or spoken about in the planning process. It might be fair enough but it’s very hard to tell the woods from the trees when you have lads complaining about building time, the sun, extra people.

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