RTΙ News: €800m Ballymun regeneration gets go-aheadTreasury Holdings has secured full planning permission for the 800m regeneration of Ballymun Town Centre in north Dublin.
The new Spring Cross development represents the largest mixed-use town centre permission that has ever been granted in Ireland.
We need to radically change every system that has enabled the wholesale destruction of the Irish landscape, rural and urban. There is no time for incremental step by step measures. The systems have failed utterly and the only hope for a real recovery requires the rule book to be torn up completely.
Why do we insist on putting people in high rise apartment blocks?
Ballymun is a concrete jungle. Even more so now that the "redevelopment" has got underway. All the buildings are horrid looking, bog-standard, poured-concrete monstrosities.
interesting to see this move ahead having already had millions(billions?) pumped into Ballymun during the boom and no movement on the Limerick Regeneration Project
Lets hope St Teresas Gardens, Dolphin House, St Michaels Estate and O' Devaney Gardens also get the redevelopment they deserve.
SMASH THE NAMA REPUBLIC GET OUT AND PROTEST
BRL was set up pre-boom though. I don't think either community got much from the CEltic Tiger. Fortycoats is right - the quality of some of the stuff in Balklymun is cack.
The move is away from low density high rise to higher density housing of many varieties incl high rises so as far as that is concerned hopefully things will be better there with a better social mix. But that statement belongs in utopian 1998 Dublin, fck knows how this will eventually pan out
We need to radically change every system that has enabled the wholesale destruction of the Irish landscape, rural and urban. There is no time for incremental step by step measures. The systems have failed utterly and the only hope for a real recovery requires the rule book to be torn up completely.
Who is lending the money for this?
I hope we have checked out the repayment viablity of Treasury Holdings (love the misleading company name, like Federal Reserve) and we're are not watching the beginning of the next big default. It would be funny to find out it was financed by Anglo
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Johnny 'The Buccaneer' Ronan, they call him. Well shiver me timbers I think we're abut to be boarded once again.Originally Posted by Avon Barksdale
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Would someone tell me who is going to be occupying all this new space when there are huge numbers of homes, offices and shops lying idle just about everywhere ?
Its 2009 and someone in Ireland with access to 800 million is going to spend it building shops and offices? What next; a vastly expensive processing plant that converts Beluga caviar into sh1it?
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