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ONE OF THE country’s major builders has blasted plans for a new town in northwest Dublin in a former landfill in Dunsink, saying it won’t succeed unless big changes are made to what’s on offer for house-hunters.
Michael Prenty, property director with Ballymore Group, believes the homes proposed for Dunsink “won’t get built” because the proposals are for “way too dense” apartments, which he claimed will also mean much of the housing will be unaffordable for people.
RTE News
Ireland's oldest scientific institution says it is concerned about the impact plans for a new urban quarter in west Dublin could have on its operation.
Dunsink Observatory says the height and density of housing planned for the area could obscure views, cause light pollution and impact its application for UNESCO World Heritage Status.
The historic observatory, which has been on lands between Finglas and Castleknock in west Dublin for almost 250 years, is run by the Dublin Institute for Advance Studies (DIAS).
Irish Times
Plan for new town at Dunsink ‘requires €7.3bn water investment’ to proceed.
Construction of 18,500 homes only feasible if Shannon-to-Dublin water-supply project and greater Dublin sewage project are built.
Uisce Éireann said the vast housing scheme could only be accommodated once the €6-billion project to pipe water from the river Shannon to Dublin and the €1.3-billion Greater Dublin Drainage Project are completed.
The Greater Dublin Drainage Project, intended to process the sewage of 500,000 people, last year secured permission almost 14 years after planning began for the scheme. An application for permission for the water-supply project was submitted to An Coimisiún Pleanála last December.
Irish Times
Architect urges Fingal to cut Dunsink densities
Proposed apartment numbers for would-be north Dublin suburb too high, former RIAI president Tony Reddy says.
The reason Dunsink remained virtually untouched by construction during successive housebuilding booms was largely down to the presence of Dublin’s largest landfill, which occupies much of the northern third of the area. The landfill closed more than 20 years ago, but ever since it has been subject to environmental monitoring and the collection of leachate and gas. The “restoration and redevelopment” project to decontaminate the site, is due to be completed by 2030.
RTE News
Concerns raised over development plan for Dunsink.
Locals in the surrounding areas of Finglas and Ashtown say current plans for the new Dunsink Urban Quarter will put huge pressure on traffic and services in those areas.
Irish Times
“We are not opposing houses and we actually want to have houses. It would be amazing to have housing. We would love to see affordable houses for people around here.” She says Finglas would feel the effects of the proposed scheme, adding “nobody talked to the locals” before the plans were produced.
A 123-page glossy brochure shows images of a leafy community with schools, plaza-style water features, the Luas and blocks of apartments of about 10 storeys.
Lambert claims this level of infrastructure is “wishful thinking”. “We don’t trust the council after the promises they made and failed to deliver in Charlestown and Meakstown,” she says, referring to previous developments in Finglas that have waited years for infrastructure to catch up with housing.
Irish Times
Dunsink: Is a Dublin county council planning to build 18,500 homes on a dump?
From the 1970s to the end of the 1990s Dunsink was the location of Dublin’s largest rubbish dump
Irish Times
People can support more homes while having concerns about how Dunsink will function
Rather than blaming residents for raising legitimate concerns, we should demand that the State gets the planning right
Claims of hindrance are debunked by the fact that there are currently 46,722 ready-to-go, yet unbuilt, permissions for houses and apartments in Dublin, all of which have recently successfully navigated the system.
More broadly, one person’s “delay” is another’s due diligence. We know too well the social, environmental and economic costs of ill-considered development.
Irish Times
The Dunsink plan shows Ireland has a lesson to learn from the Soviets
Objections to Dunsink are not about what’s in the plan. They’re about what’s missing.
Mid-century Soviet architecture provokes a binary reaction. There are those who find its modernism disgusting and inhumane, and then there are people like me who find it enticingly beautiful. The difference is whether you are looking at “Khrushchyovkas” – the low-cost housing developments – as buildings or as social tools.
Dublin People
Councillors agree to revised Dunsink Urban Area Plan following marathon meetings
Dublin People
Dublin North-West TD Paul McAuliffe has called on councillors from Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council to jointly establish a formal joint committee under Section 52 of the Local Government Act 2001 to oversee the delivery of the Dunsink Urban Area Plan, which straddles the boundary of both local authority areas
Dublin Live
Wildlife expert warns Dunsink habitat must be left as 'undisturbed as possible'
Dublin Live
Finglas locals continue pushback on 18,500-home Dunsink plan: 'An unfair burden'.
Finglas residents have continued to resist the draft plan for the Dunsink City Quarter, stating they have not been properly consulted regarding the impact 18,500 new homes will have on their community and are calling for a "more transparent and meaningful consultation process"