There is political will to solve the housing crisis is there 😢
> The 100-page council planner’s report concluded that the scheme should be refused permission “based on the unacceptably poor levels of residential amenity that the current design would afford its future residents, both in terms of the daylight/sunlight availability internally within the apartments and also within the courtyard spaces, providing a poor outlook for the courtyard facing apartments”. The council said that while it was noted that there was a great need for housing units of every type and tenure, “this does not warrant poor levels of compliance with standards which have been put in place for the protection of the residential amenities of future occupants”.
I mean we don’t want the Celtic Tiger housing quality to come back do we? 🤷🏻♂️
ANybody have a link to the planning application document? Only way to tell if what the Council said has any merit.
I guess they are right. The current site is a complete kip so it wouldn’t be fitting in the local character to develop it
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There is political will to solve the housing crisis is there 😢
> The 100-page council planner’s report concluded that the scheme should be refused permission “based on the unacceptably poor levels of residential amenity that the current design would afford its future residents, both in terms of the daylight/sunlight availability internally within the apartments and also within the courtyard spaces, providing a poor outlook for the courtyard facing apartments”. The council said that while it was noted that there was a great need for housing units of every type and tenure, “this does not warrant poor levels of compliance with standards which have been put in place for the protection of the residential amenities of future occupants”.
I mean we don’t want the Celtic Tiger housing quality to come back do we? 🤷🏻♂️
ANybody have a link to the planning application document? Only way to tell if what the Council said has any merit.
I guess they are right. The current site is a complete kip so it wouldn’t be fitting in the local character to develop it
Shattering news.
Did I just wake up in 2008?