Did they not just change the planning laws because of this? As in no single use sites.
Also building up and proper planning of amenities could solve housing issue miles faster than a gazillion estates all over the country
Ireland is not building enough of any type of home actually.
But ….my road frontage
at the same time, most people are not civilized enough to share walls here
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Ireland is building too few houses Vs influx of people in the first place
How dare someone who saved money and wants to live in a detached house. It’s incomprehensible.
Am I so horrible that I don’t want to hear my neighbor on the left taking a loud shite while the neighbor on the right roars at his kids because they scream up and down the house 24/7
New houses should be banned in our cities. We need to build apartments, and lots of them. Individual houses with their shitty little gardens are a terrible waste of space – proper apartments, with plenty of green areas around them, close to work and facilities, are what a city should aspire to have.
live in ze pod.
Just a reminder to those here that say that we shouldn’t be allowed to live in detached houses in the country: you may have to live next to me in the council flats. I just took up drums, I’m shite at them, I don’t give a fuck, and I’m not getting lesssons. Bagpipes next.
Estate living is miserable
The way we do city planning in this country is infuriating. Councils don’t plan anything. Instead all they do is approve or deny developers proposals. And they’ll shit for it either way. That’s how we end up with acres upon acres of housing estates everywhere, often without anything near it or even sufficient green space. Extra infuriating when they sell public land at a discount for it.
Reducing home size as suggested in the article however seems ridiculous, when the average home size is already quite small comparatively. 89sqm, compared to 137 in Denmark, 109 in Germany, 120 in Belgium, 97 in Spain and Austria ….
Yes we need more density but achieving that through building smaller and smaller semi D’s is just bizarre.
Ahh yeah, sure blame rural people yet again. No idea how that impacts the lack of urban high density
Ireland has too many tee total people, says drinks lobby
I’d love to know what type of home Pat Barry (the guy in the article) lives in.
WE NEED BIG COMMIE BLOCKS!!!
We should build apartments – yet nobody trusts developers to build apartments they’d want to buy.
So we need a mix. We are building too few apartments, too few large detached houses, too few of everything.
No shit sherlock
…and also every person under the age of 30
Such bullshit, our parents generation were able to afford detached houses, but we’re supposed to accept living in semis or terraced houses with tiny gardens.
It’s an indication that Irish societies standards have dropped. Young people should be able to have space and garden areas to raise their kids.
I’m speaking mostly about suburban living, all the new builds around my area are mostly terraced or semis, whereas in the past housing estates were mostly detached houses. That’s a clear generational gap in our standard of living.
I’d kill to own any house of course but this is just something I’ve observed.
They want us all living in matchboxes with 3 metre squared garden.
I never realised how absolutely destroyed the Irish countryside is with houses until I visited the Cotswolds in England. Obviously this isn’t a like-for-like comparison as the Cotswolds have traditionally been a very wealthy area and I’m sure the UK has its issues too. But I drove around and all you could see was woods and fields and hedgerows and rivers and nature. Pleasant, historic villages are dotted around and modern housing estates and supermarkets are hidden down a side road. Actually, I say drove, but I used the bus, because there was a regular and punctual hourly service between each village made possible because all the housing is grouped together.
Ireland’s public transport meanwhile can never ever be efficient because of our historic planning and the countryside as a whole has been practically destroyed with one off housing.
Houses are being built?
“Ireland is building too many” 5 words I never thought I’d see together
As a person living in a detached house in the county with a big garden its fantastic. Lived in citys in apartments and semi’s and I’d rather starve then move back. The space, growing fruit, vegetables, flowers and the peace.
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Did they not just change the planning laws because of this? As in no single use sites.
Also building up and proper planning of amenities could solve housing issue miles faster than a gazillion estates all over the country
Ireland is not building enough of any type of home actually.
But ….my road frontage
at the same time, most people are not civilized enough to share walls here
[deleted]
Ireland is building too few houses Vs influx of people in the first place
How dare someone who saved money and wants to live in a detached house. It’s incomprehensible.
Am I so horrible that I don’t want to hear my neighbor on the left taking a loud shite while the neighbor on the right roars at his kids because they scream up and down the house 24/7
New houses should be banned in our cities. We need to build apartments, and lots of them. Individual houses with their shitty little gardens are a terrible waste of space – proper apartments, with plenty of green areas around them, close to work and facilities, are what a city should aspire to have.
live in ze pod.
Just a reminder to those here that say that we shouldn’t be allowed to live in detached houses in the country: you may have to live next to me in the council flats. I just took up drums, I’m shite at them, I don’t give a fuck, and I’m not getting lesssons. Bagpipes next.
Estate living is miserable
The way we do city planning in this country is infuriating. Councils don’t plan anything. Instead all they do is approve or deny developers proposals. And they’ll shit for it either way. That’s how we end up with acres upon acres of housing estates everywhere, often without anything near it or even sufficient green space. Extra infuriating when they sell public land at a discount for it.
Reducing home size as suggested in the article however seems ridiculous, when the average home size is already quite small comparatively. 89sqm, compared to 137 in Denmark, 109 in Germany, 120 in Belgium, 97 in Spain and Austria ….
Yes we need more density but achieving that through building smaller and smaller semi D’s is just bizarre.
https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house/
We need to build up. No more housing estates.
Ahh yeah, sure blame rural people yet again. No idea how that impacts the lack of urban high density
Ireland has too many tee total people, says drinks lobby
I’d love to know what type of home Pat Barry (the guy in the article) lives in.
WE NEED BIG COMMIE BLOCKS!!!
We should build apartments – yet nobody trusts developers to build apartments they’d want to buy.
So we need a mix. We are building too few apartments, too few large detached houses, too few of everything.
No shit sherlock
…and also every person under the age of 30
Such bullshit, our parents generation were able to afford detached houses, but we’re supposed to accept living in semis or terraced houses with tiny gardens.
It’s an indication that Irish societies standards have dropped. Young people should be able to have space and garden areas to raise their kids.
I’m speaking mostly about suburban living, all the new builds around my area are mostly terraced or semis, whereas in the past housing estates were mostly detached houses. That’s a clear generational gap in our standard of living.
I’d kill to own any house of course but this is just something I’ve observed.
They want us all living in matchboxes with 3 metre squared garden.
I never realised how absolutely destroyed the Irish countryside is with houses until I visited the Cotswolds in England. Obviously this isn’t a like-for-like comparison as the Cotswolds have traditionally been a very wealthy area and I’m sure the UK has its issues too. But I drove around and all you could see was woods and fields and hedgerows and rivers and nature. Pleasant, historic villages are dotted around and modern housing estates and supermarkets are hidden down a side road. Actually, I say drove, but I used the bus, because there was a regular and punctual hourly service between each village made possible because all the housing is grouped together.
Ireland’s public transport meanwhile can never ever be efficient because of our historic planning and the countryside as a whole has been practically destroyed with one off housing.
Houses are being built?
“Ireland is building too many” 5 words I never thought I’d see together
As a person living in a detached house in the county with a big garden its fantastic. Lived in citys in apartments and semi’s and I’d rather starve then move back. The space, growing fruit, vegetables, flowers and the peace.