Dublin Port expansion plans lodged

What is the point if the port will be moving to Balbriggan within the next several years. :rolleyes:

Therein lies the plot; the port move to Balbriggan would involve the end of the Dublin Port Authority as the Bremore site is controlled by the Drogheda Harbour Board. How a country with the minimal sea freight figures that Ireland has needs more than one state port body is far from clear. This application is a shameful waste of taxpayers dollars.

if they need more room why did they sell all the land at the other end of the docks huh?

@lostexpectation wrote:

if they need more room why did they sell all the land at the other end of the docks huh?

The East Link bridge is in the way.

they didn’t necessarily need quay acess they needed room, don’t they but now that you say it, is it really tha clever to cut off a hugh chunk of you docks.

Incentives clear way for relocation of Dublin Port
Sunday Tribune
19th Oct 2008

The government has cleared the way in the budget for the relocation of Dublin Port by announcing that it plans to introduce tax incentives to “facilitate the removal and relocation of Seveso-listed industrial facilities which hinder the residential and commercial regeneration of docklands in urban brownfield areas”.

Subject to approval by the European Commission, the tax incentives will allow the removal of storage facilities for fuel and chemicals in the port, freeing up the land for development. This in turn will fund the relocation of the port away from the city centre.

Senior sources said that Irish Continental Group (ICG), which is at the centre of a takeover battle between One51 and Liam Carroll, would also benefit despite the fact that its 33-acre site is outside the Seveso area.

A source said that when the petrol tanks are relocated it will allow sequential development along the port and eventually as far as the ICG site. The Irish Takeover Panel is currently inquiring into an alleged link between the One51-led investment vehicle Moonduster and the British-based Arkaga fund regarding share buying in ICG last year.

CIE is also set to be a beneficiary, as the Health & Safety Authority raised concerns about the proximity of its proposed €1bn development of 14 acres at the CIE station in Galway to the Topaz oil storage facility and the Cold Chon tarmac facility. Their removal would free up development of that site and a Bus Eireann maintenance garage site.

In Cork, there are three Seveso sites in the docklands which are owned by Topaz, the National Oil Reserves Agency and Gouldings Fertiliser which is owned by Origin Enterprises. That means those lands can be developed by their owners while also freeing up other land in the area for development.

Good to see.
The idea of a major port being right inside the city centre, doesn’t make any sense these days. It will take a good few years, to free up the land for development, and hopefully it will be finished in time for the next building boom.

Dublin Port have are fast tracking their planning permission through ABP. Unfortunately, they still need to be stopped, and appeals to ABP must be submitted by Tuesday next. See http://www.dublinbaywatch.ie/ for further details.

What the port really needs is a cruise liner terminal. Are plans afoot?

@Gaudi wrote:

Dublin Port have are fast tracking their planning permission through ABP. Unfortunately, they still need to be stopped, and appeals to ABP must be submitted by Tuesday next. See http://www.dublinbaywatch.ie/ for further details.

Why must they be stopped?

if they move the port why don’t they let the land fall back into the sea

@lostexpectation wrote:

if they move the port why don’t they let the land fall back into the sea

why would they want to do that?

well i don’t want to property speculators to get rich, i rather dublin port stick to doing port things then getting rich on selling land, i don’t think the flats will ever be that great, probably building the next ballymun the next set of buildings to demolished in fifty years.imagine the amount of money spent flood proofing those building and that reclaimed land. I thought we’re weren’t supposed to building on flood plains! reclaiming that much land can only be negative for the environment and Progress into the long term.

how more silly is the parlons new heart of dublin plan, or these flat builders plans compared to funda shamrock island?

@lostexpectation wrote:

well i don’t want to property speculators to get rich, i rather dublin port stick to doing port things then getting rich on selling land, i don’t think the flats will ever be that great, probably building the next ballymun the next set of buildings to demolished in fifty years.imagine the amount of money spent flood proofing those building and that reclaimed land. I thought we’re weren’t supposed to building on flood plains! reclaiming that much land can only be negative for the environment and Progress into the long term.

how more silly is the parlons new heart of dublin plan compared to funda shamrock island?

you dont want to redevelop land because you dont want anyone to get rich?????

why would the flats not be that great? Do you honestly think that they will build Ballymun on what is pontentially the largest expanse of prime waterfront development land in Ireland?

As for building on flood plains take a look at an early map of Dublin, do you propose letting Fairview, GCD most of the quays up to the Custom house on either side go back to the sea from where they where orginally reclaimed?

there in huge pontential to use this site to redefine dublin much the way Balitmore and other cities have done with their waterfront instead of the crap that currently fills the docklands.