{"id":150524,"date":"2025-10-29T00:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/150524\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:43:08","slug":"deansgrange-businesses-warn-roadworks-could-lead-to-closures-and-falling-house-prices-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/150524\/","title":{"rendered":"Deansgrange businesses warn roadworks could lead to closures and falling house prices \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesspeople in Deansgrange, south county Dublin<\/a>, who say they have lost business due to two years of roadworks in the area, have called on D\u00fan Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council<\/a> to pause further planned works. <\/p>\n

Some 70 people in the area staged a protest on Tuesday evening, calling on locals to support their position before Thursday\u2019s deadline for online submissions on future plans. <\/p>\n

The council has published a number of options for a planned \u201cupgrade of Deansgrange village from an accessibility and public realm point of view\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFour options have been developed and we are seeking feedback on which (if any) are favoured by the local community,\u201d according to the council\u2019s website. <\/p>\n

However, on Tuesday traders claimed the plan\u2019s main effect would be to remove parking from outside a line of shops on a slip road, set back from the main road. <\/p>\n

Darragh Buckley of FX Buckley Butchers said the removal of parking from outside his shop would remove 40 per cent of traffic into his premises. \u201cWe have no back entrance, how are we meant to get deliveries of beef and lamb into the store?\u201d he asked. <\/p>\n

\"Locals,Locals, politicians and traders protested against planned public realm improvements in Deansgrange, Co Dublin, on Tuesday evening. Photograph: Tim O’Brien <\/p>\n

Rachel Twomey of the local SuperValu<\/a> said the line of shops included a chemist, a medical practice, a newsagent, butchers and a takeaway. \u201cThere is an elderly population here and many of these people need to get their prescriptions filled, to be dropped off at the doctors or to collect their dinner,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will close businesses,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Roadworks plan angers south Dublin communityOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Stephen Moore of estate agents Byrne and Moore said: \u201cIf shops close and you have shuttered empty buildings on the streets, house prices in the area will fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr Michael Quirey said he was a cyclist and normally approved of improved access for active travellers. In this case, however, the design of cycling facilities on local road was not consistent, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nobody who comes out from the council to discuss these plans. There is no face we can talk to, no model of what it might look like in the local library,\u201d he said. \u201cWe pay taxes and we should have more say in how our infrastructure money is spent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Local Fianna F\u00e1il<\/a> TD Cormac Devlin and his party colleagues Michael Clark and Justin Moylan said they were supporting the businesses. Mr Clark said businesses in the area needed \u201ca pause\u201d on development works in the area. <\/p>\n

D\u00fan Laoghaire Rathdown County Council has said its public consultation on a range of options would close on Thursday. <\/p>\n

The council\u2019s website page for the project says: \u201cThe outcome of this engagement will form the basis for the development of the future project (if any) and to support the application for funding to progress with a scheme.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Miche\u00e1l Martin now facing \u2018more serious\u2019 risk of leadership challengeOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Businesspeople in Deansgrange, south county Dublin, who say they have lost business due to two years of roadworks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,88298,20688,7927,18,13,14,4771,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-150524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-deansgrange","11":"tag-dun-laoghaire","12":"tag-dun-laoghaire-rathdown-county-council","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-fianna-fail","17":"tag-headlines","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-latest-news","21":"tag-latestnews","22":"tag-main-news","23":"tag-mainnews","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-top-stories","26":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}