Feck sake, those poor residents of Dun Laoighaire having to look at an apartment building – oh the travesty.
Even the way these cunts report this:
>Local opposition to plans … in Dublin 18 have received a boost.
Why they fuck would a normal person word anything like that.
How about: “NIMBY cunts are closer to getting their own way yet again”
> The developers have put an indicative price of €582,000 on its two-bedroom apartments destined for the local authority, with one-bedroom units priced at €427,500 and studio apartments €298,000.
€600k per 2-bed. And you don’t even get a garden with it.
427.5k for a 1 bedroom. Wow.
Oh fuck off, we need somewhere to live.
€300k for a bedsit, €600k for a 2 bed. These NIMBY protesters are doing us a favour. We really need a government led accommodation building initiative. A private developer driven market will keep the prices at these exorbitantly high prices
Another excellent example of the problems in Ireland. One minute you have people on the news crying they have no houses for little Mary or Johnny. The next minute you will have the same person complaining because they are building houses close to them.
Ireland will never get large scaling houses/apartments build because you will always have some local who has nothing better to do than object to everything. They need to review and reject these mindless complaints.
I’m normally a critic of NIMBYISM but is there a good reason not to oppose these?
The price of them is incredibly high for one and two bed apartments, should the council be buying them other than “any accommodation built is a good thing”.
Genuine question, and interested in points people might make.
4 arguments all bullshit. Scale is too large. Not in line with suburbia. Will not allow for homeworking (????). Isn’t a million dollar pricetag enough for your house cant get that at the feckin lotto
Edit: I recommend the council to demolish a single family house for every complaint
I would have thought that this was the ideal place for a development of this size? Lots of similar buildings nearby, next to the LUAS, lots of employment in the area.
I don’t know why we are building 20 storey towers in Carrickmines and not building them in Sandyford (or even better, the city centre).
If the council don’t want to spend taxpayers money on expensive apartments they shouldn’t have to. I’d imagine the developer would probably be quite happy to sell or rent the apartments themselves.
I don’t understand the people in here moaning about needing to build more homes and pissing on this when the price of these are astronomical.
We don’t just need housing we need affordable housing and these aren’t that. Who can even afford these places? It’s insane.
‘Visually obtrusive and overbearing when viewed from other properties’.
You want unobstructed views? then f off down the country. This is a major European city and we need to have apartments. Its not exactly the Amalfi coast, its Sandyford. Can other citizens not challenge the challenge?
It would be really great if newspapers and reposts would not use words like “council”, the council members that voted against this have names and political parties.
We need to name names, also the residents that oppose the building.
I for one want to know whom deems it ok, they I have no where to live so they can have a nice view.
I hope the day never comes that they lose their house.
All the same tired arguments all over again.
The problem with Dublin is there’s just no plan.
Without a plan there’s just always going to be this never ending battle of people trying to change it and people trying to keep it the same.
“Needs more bribe.”
While their is a precedent for buildings like this to just sit empty for years after completion(due to prices being too high) I do hope it goes ahead.
The article states ‘high number of small apartments did not provide for a sustainable community’… so I’m guessing what the site currently is, a boarded up unmaintained abandoned building is just perfect for the community.
Obviously this is just nearby home owners protecting the value of their homes and screw everyone else. Pretending that area is some village, it’s next to five story office buildings.
I moved to Ireland a couple of months ago and I must say, my jaw hit the floor with those prices. Meanwhile, my sister is renting a large house with a large garden and a separate smaller unit for 280€ back in Greece. At least the salary here is more than enough to support those ridiculous prices, but this is undoubtedly the reason why I’m not staying in Ireland long term, if I can help it.
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What do we want? *more houses*
Where do we want them? *in the fucking sea*
Feck sake, those poor residents of Dun Laoighaire having to look at an apartment building – oh the travesty.
Even the way these cunts report this:
>Local opposition to plans … in Dublin 18 have received a boost.
Why they fuck would a normal person word anything like that.
How about: “NIMBY cunts are closer to getting their own way yet again”
> The developers have put an indicative price of €582,000 on its two-bedroom apartments destined for the local authority, with one-bedroom units priced at €427,500 and studio apartments €298,000.
€600k per 2-bed. And you don’t even get a garden with it.
427.5k for a 1 bedroom. Wow.
Oh fuck off, we need somewhere to live.
€300k for a bedsit, €600k for a 2 bed. These NIMBY protesters are doing us a favour. We really need a government led accommodation building initiative. A private developer driven market will keep the prices at these exorbitantly high prices
Another excellent example of the problems in Ireland. One minute you have people on the news crying they have no houses for little Mary or Johnny. The next minute you will have the same person complaining because they are building houses close to them.
Ireland will never get large scaling houses/apartments build because you will always have some local who has nothing better to do than object to everything. They need to review and reject these mindless complaints.
I’m normally a critic of NIMBYISM but is there a good reason not to oppose these?
The price of them is incredibly high for one and two bed apartments, should the council be buying them other than “any accommodation built is a good thing”.
Genuine question, and interested in points people might make.
4 arguments all bullshit. Scale is too large. Not in line with suburbia. Will not allow for homeworking (????). Isn’t a million dollar pricetag enough for your house cant get that at the feckin lotto
Edit: I recommend the council to demolish a single family house for every complaint
I would have thought that this was the ideal place for a development of this size? Lots of similar buildings nearby, next to the LUAS, lots of employment in the area.
I don’t know why we are building 20 storey towers in Carrickmines and not building them in Sandyford (or even better, the city centre).
If the council don’t want to spend taxpayers money on expensive apartments they shouldn’t have to. I’d imagine the developer would probably be quite happy to sell or rent the apartments themselves.
I don’t understand the people in here moaning about needing to build more homes and pissing on this when the price of these are astronomical.
We don’t just need housing we need affordable housing and these aren’t that. Who can even afford these places? It’s insane.
‘Visually obtrusive and overbearing when viewed from other properties’.
You want unobstructed views? then f off down the country. This is a major European city and we need to have apartments. Its not exactly the Amalfi coast, its Sandyford. Can other citizens not challenge the challenge?
It would be really great if newspapers and reposts would not use words like “council”, the council members that voted against this have names and political parties.
We need to name names, also the residents that oppose the building.
I for one want to know whom deems it ok, they I have no where to live so they can have a nice view.
I hope the day never comes that they lose their house.
All the same tired arguments all over again.
The problem with Dublin is there’s just no plan.
Without a plan there’s just always going to be this never ending battle of people trying to change it and people trying to keep it the same.
“Needs more bribe.”
While their is a precedent for buildings like this to just sit empty for years after completion(due to prices being too high) I do hope it goes ahead.
The article states ‘high number of small apartments did not provide for a sustainable community’… so I’m guessing what the site currently is, a boarded up unmaintained abandoned building is just perfect for the community.
Obviously this is just nearby home owners protecting the value of their homes and screw everyone else. Pretending that area is some village, it’s next to five story office buildings.
I moved to Ireland a couple of months ago and I must say, my jaw hit the floor with those prices. Meanwhile, my sister is renting a large house with a large garden and a separate smaller unit for 280€ back in Greece. At least the salary here is more than enough to support those ridiculous prices, but this is undoubtedly the reason why I’m not staying in Ireland long term, if I can help it.