Convenience Stores
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So I see yet ANOTHER convenience store opened up in the heart of Dublin city centre today. The victim this time was Dame Street. Strangely, even as numerous as convenience stores have become, this large Londis store has actually opended up DIRECLTY opposite another huge Londis on the same street.
I know we’ve already had discussions about convenience stores on some of the other forms, most notably those relating to shop signage, and O’Connell Street, but at this stage I think the mushrooming of convenience stores all over the city centre deserves a thread of its own! I just can’t believe DCC is allowing so many of them to open up. At this rate, in about five or six years’ time, the only type of shop in the city centre will be a convenience store or, at best, a EuroSaver store!
I find the Council’s blas
I dont think they can do very much about it, except in ACA and Special Planning areas such as O`Connell St and (soon) Grafton Street. The planning laws do not allow planning authorities to do very much. Dundrum is not really a good comparison tothe city centre in this case as it is a property wholey-owned by one company that can manage the mix of shops as it sees fit. The DCC cant do this in the city.
We could always plan a boycott, there prices are way too high, – most of the stuff they sell is junky anyway. Then they might all wither like the mushrooms they are. Ask yourself when did you last use one (mea culpa anyone?) and then pass on the word.
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