A part of the prime city centre land that has been half derelict for 40 years now. It absolutely crying out for redevelopment and would vastly improve the quality of life in the north inner city.
But no no, we must preserve “Moore Street’s unique plot grains and courtyards”. Firstly what on earth is a plot grain and secondly go on to google street view and go around the alleyways around Moore Street. It’s a kip and I’m sick of a small minority delaying any sort of positive developments in Dublin.
Was actually going to give Sinn Fein a go in the next referendum but that idea’s now gone out the window. I don’t want a leader that would object to new property development on the grounds of “cultural significance”. It’s not like they’re looking to knock down the GPO ffs.
The Hammerson plan proposed here will basically turn the entire street into a few office blocks and hotels.
The Moore Street Preservation Trust’s plan, which includes apartments, cafés a permanent outdoor market, a museum and cultural spaces is a far better use of the area
Is our British media trying to spin this as a bad thing? The Irish Times are as Irish as Guinness, purely in marketing.
I get the symbolic significance of Moore Street, but it’s a total kip with very little of anything there worth preserving besides location. Anything of value is long gone.
My thoughts – put some provision in the plans for a cultural centre / museum / monument and redevelop the rest of it
I can’t see any issue. The entire inner city is a shitpile and should be cleared out.
She does not want to solve the housing crisis. *Nobody* benefits from the current situation more than her. It’s going to make her Taoiseach.
Moore street and the surrounding historical area is a kip. It’s a disgrace that one of the most historically significant areas in the city has been left to decay and treated this way. A tour of it and the GPO should be one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country.
I just want to see the main route used by the rebels after the GPO fell treated respectfully with the creation of a tasteful and somber visitor experience and then the rest of the area turned into a vibrant city centre quarter with nice shops, restaurants and hotels. The original planning permission before hammerson bought it also had a plan for a sky garden, but that element was removed by AnBP (for reasons best known to themselves!)
ffs that place of a kip will never get fixed
Agree with her.
I think we know that when SF come into power it will be “meet the new boss….“
I’ll give them a vote anyway on the principle of kicking the old bums out.
SF doing their special of moaning that nothing ever gets built, while simultaneously objecting to every attempt to build anything.
Any other government in the world would have atleast sold it off with the condition that museum is built and maintained. Selling streets to the private sector for next to nothing is only making this country a more miserable place to live.
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A part of the prime city centre land that has been half derelict for 40 years now. It absolutely crying out for redevelopment and would vastly improve the quality of life in the north inner city.
But no no, we must preserve “Moore Street’s unique plot grains and courtyards”. Firstly what on earth is a plot grain and secondly go on to google street view and go around the alleyways around Moore Street. It’s a kip and I’m sick of a small minority delaying any sort of positive developments in Dublin.
Was actually going to give Sinn Fein a go in the next referendum but that idea’s now gone out the window. I don’t want a leader that would object to new property development on the grounds of “cultural significance”. It’s not like they’re looking to knock down the GPO ffs.
The Hammerson plan proposed here will basically turn the entire street into a few office blocks and hotels.
The Moore Street Preservation Trust’s plan, which includes apartments, cafés a permanent outdoor market, a museum and cultural spaces is a far better use of the area
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Is our British media trying to spin this as a bad thing? The Irish Times are as Irish as Guinness, purely in marketing.
I get the symbolic significance of Moore Street, but it’s a total kip with very little of anything there worth preserving besides location. Anything of value is long gone.
My thoughts – put some provision in the plans for a cultural centre / museum / monument and redevelop the rest of it
I can’t see any issue. The entire inner city is a shitpile and should be cleared out.
She does not want to solve the housing crisis. *Nobody* benefits from the current situation more than her. It’s going to make her Taoiseach.
Moore street and the surrounding historical area is a kip. It’s a disgrace that one of the most historically significant areas in the city has been left to decay and treated this way. A tour of it and the GPO should be one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country.
I just want to see the main route used by the rebels after the GPO fell treated respectfully with the creation of a tasteful and somber visitor experience and then the rest of the area turned into a vibrant city centre quarter with nice shops, restaurants and hotels. The original planning permission before hammerson bought it also had a plan for a sky garden, but that element was removed by AnBP (for reasons best known to themselves!)
ffs that place of a kip will never get fixed
Agree with her.
I think we know that when SF come into power it will be “meet the new boss….“
I’ll give them a vote anyway on the principle of kicking the old bums out.
SF doing their special of moaning that nothing ever gets built, while simultaneously objecting to every attempt to build anything.
Any other government in the world would have atleast sold it off with the condition that museum is built and maintained. Selling streets to the private sector for next to nothing is only making this country a more miserable place to live.