I imagine the Goldman Sachs bit will get some people’s hackles up. IT has fairly typical anti-development framing. Given the viability questions over apartments, hard to see this actually happening…
All that said however, this is the sort of thing I want to see happen at the suburban shopping malls. The likes of Blanch, Liffey Valley or Mahon Point in Cork.
With the rise of online shopping the demand for retail space is going to reduce. You already have loads of shopping centres closing in the states, even here you see the signs in places. It makes for a rather depressing scene – empty shopping centres look fairly apocalyptic, and don’t easily convert into anything else.
So if you want to keep them viable, you need more people for them. They also tend to have already good transport links (at least to roads). Given the wide open car parks, they’re good candidates for development., even without wholesale redevelopment. So bring these sorts of schemes on.
“As part of the plan, the applicants are proposing to sell 97 units for social housing to Fingal County Council for €44.9 million.”
€463,000 a piece, if you take a look at daft current apartments in that area are going for 250,000 or so. How generous.
Council being taken for a ride again, or brown envelopes. Probably both.
Look at the prominent mention of “Goldman Sachs” in the headline. Just look at it.
This could have been just “971 apartments approved” or “New housing for Blanchardstown”, but instead it’s “Goldman Sachs….”.
Newspapers these days unfortunately exist to sell outrage and clicks.
I know there are already apartments close enough to that shopping centre but I think I’d hate it if it were me!
I absolutely hate NIMBYism, but surely such a large reduction of parking to a huge shopping centre that you literally have to drive to is going to cause a massive headache, I’d really struggle to believe that the retailers inside the centre won’t object to the inevitable reduction in their footfall either. The area around that site is also a mess of poor urban planning, braindead road design and poor civil engineering and an additional thousand dwellings will just compound the issue.
If it was located on the other side shopping centre closer to the train station (like the shopping centre should have been), then it might make some iota of sense.
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I imagine the Goldman Sachs bit will get some people’s hackles up. IT has fairly typical anti-development framing. Given the viability questions over apartments, hard to see this actually happening…
All that said however, this is the sort of thing I want to see happen at the suburban shopping malls. The likes of Blanch, Liffey Valley or Mahon Point in Cork.
With the rise of online shopping the demand for retail space is going to reduce. You already have loads of shopping centres closing in the states, even here you see the signs in places. It makes for a rather depressing scene – empty shopping centres look fairly apocalyptic, and don’t easily convert into anything else.
So if you want to keep them viable, you need more people for them. They also tend to have already good transport links (at least to roads). Given the wide open car parks, they’re good candidates for development., even without wholesale redevelopment. So bring these sorts of schemes on.
“As part of the plan, the applicants are proposing to sell 97 units for social housing to Fingal County Council for €44.9 million.”
€463,000 a piece, if you take a look at daft current apartments in that area are going for 250,000 or so. How generous.
Council being taken for a ride again, or brown envelopes. Probably both.
Look at the prominent mention of “Goldman Sachs” in the headline. Just look at it.
This could have been just “971 apartments approved” or “New housing for Blanchardstown”, but instead it’s “Goldman Sachs….”.
Newspapers these days unfortunately exist to sell outrage and clicks.
I know there are already apartments close enough to that shopping centre but I think I’d hate it if it were me!
I absolutely hate NIMBYism, but surely such a large reduction of parking to a huge shopping centre that you literally have to drive to is going to cause a massive headache, I’d really struggle to believe that the retailers inside the centre won’t object to the inevitable reduction in their footfall either. The area around that site is also a mess of poor urban planning, braindead road design and poor civil engineering and an additional thousand dwellings will just compound the issue.
If it was located on the other side shopping centre closer to the train station (like the shopping centre should have been), then it might make some iota of sense.