Wont be any teachers either because they will have no where to live. the government are blind
If a development is of sufficient overall scale, they need to provide a suitable site for a school if no suitable existing site is available in the locality or the existing school cannot be expanded to cater.
I have no problem with government services taking a more active engagement role in large developments but it must be in a constructive manner .
Were these apartments meant for families? Mostly 2 or 3 bed apartments? Or were they mostly studios and 1 beds?
If it’s the former schools might be a concern, if the latter why would schools matter?
Sounds like the dept of Education need to get up off their arses and take some action.
Just like an office building, can’t you dedicate the first 2-3 floors to schools and even indoor grocery shops etc. while the other floors remain residential? Dublin and Cork are bloated and the countryside is emptying out because the jobs are all in the cities. So selfencompassing developments with parking, a shop or two, and in this case, school or daycare centers built in to the lower levels means an entire community can be built vertically, saving city space, and making for smart expansion
Holding up much needed development because you’re too incompetent to build a school is not a good look.
This is just more short sightedness from our government.
What’s needed is some holistic city planning for once, that actually looks to solve the problem rather than merely point out why things won’t work.
Just beside these baldoyle plans is Clongriffin, a new run down dart Station, a huge empty shopping centre for 15 years, many empty shops on the street and also lack of school places notably secondary school. Clongriffin has 20-30k population and will rapidly grow to 50k over next 10 years if plans go ahead.
Sure build these, but be in no surprise how awful the irish planning system is that nothing is linked historically together.
Much better if those children are homeless or in substandard accomodation and ALSO have no school place, great thinking from the department
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Wont be any teachers either because they will have no where to live. the government are blind
If a development is of sufficient overall scale, they need to provide a suitable site for a school if no suitable existing site is available in the locality or the existing school cannot be expanded to cater.
I have no problem with government services taking a more active engagement role in large developments but it must be in a constructive manner .
Were these apartments meant for families? Mostly 2 or 3 bed apartments? Or were they mostly studios and 1 beds?
If it’s the former schools might be a concern, if the latter why would schools matter?
Sounds like the dept of Education need to get up off their arses and take some action.
Just like an office building, can’t you dedicate the first 2-3 floors to schools and even indoor grocery shops etc. while the other floors remain residential? Dublin and Cork are bloated and the countryside is emptying out because the jobs are all in the cities. So selfencompassing developments with parking, a shop or two, and in this case, school or daycare centers built in to the lower levels means an entire community can be built vertically, saving city space, and making for smart expansion
The Department of Education have had a site for a school here and planning permissions and never did anything with it: https://planning.agileapplications.ie/fingal/application-details/85132
Holding up much needed development because you’re too incompetent to build a school is not a good look.
This is just more short sightedness from our government.
What’s needed is some holistic city planning for once, that actually looks to solve the problem rather than merely point out why things won’t work.
Just beside these baldoyle plans is Clongriffin, a new run down dart Station, a huge empty shopping centre for 15 years, many empty shops on the street and also lack of school places notably secondary school. Clongriffin has 20-30k population and will rapidly grow to 50k over next 10 years if plans go ahead.
Sure build these, but be in no surprise how awful the irish planning system is that nothing is linked historically together.
Much better if those children are homeless or in substandard accomodation and ALSO have no school place, great thinking from the department
That’s no surprise, I just watched a famine documentary from 1996 – [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DK-GoVkRjw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DK-GoVkRjw)
and it eerily resembles whats going on today.
Dept. Of Education are too incompetent to build a school so decide to lodge an objection, *ahem* an observation.