Re: Re: Buildings on stilts in the Liffey

Sorry I didn’t see this reply earlier

@ctesiphon wrote:

I’m not equating ‘public goods’ with ‘public interest’ . . . to the latter I would give a very wide berth. Past experience (no details, sorry) hasn’t filled me with confidence that the public knows best what it needs or wants.

I’m not sure about that ctesiphon.

I have a feeling that the public may be pretty tuned in to all of this now. All these design programmes on TV and short city breaks are eating into our head start. Now, when you’re trying to come across all knowledgable and authoritive in a client meeting about a house extension, there’s a good chance that ‘Joe six pints’ has a couple of shots on his mobile phone of the apartment he rented in barcelona.

If we take the ‘Liffey Island’ idea, since were on that thread, I think DDDA should have been challenged to stick this proposal up in a public exhibition and see if it stood up to a full blown public reaction, not just a couple of well marshaled ‘residents’ meetings. A scheme like this for the quays affects the whole city, it’s not just a local issue.

If Dunne’s proposal for Ballsbridge is anything to go by, they could have re-floated the post office with the number of letters of support that would have flooded in.