Lansdowne Road Stadium
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Maybe not as good as Munich’s Allianz Arena but still lightyears ahead of any other stadium ever built in this country. 🙂
Personally I prefer Croker
Developers insist plans for Lansdowne still on target
Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2006 / June 8
The Irish TimesThe €365 million redevelopment of Lansdowne Road as a 50,000 seat stadium is still “completely on schedule”, with construction expected to start early next year, the chairman of the company behind the initiative has claimed. Despite the fact that Dublin City Council planners earlier this year requested detailed information on 43 points relating to the proposed development, Philip Browne of the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company claimed the request was “very much the norm” for a project of its size. Mr Browne was speaking after it was confirmed that the development company had lodged its response to the additional information sought by the council.
F.I. seems to be the norm in all projects these days regardless of size; which is not a bad thing
Yes,
however given that this will more than likely go to AnBP the whole point of the FI will diminish and serve to lengthen the planning process as ultimately the Board will make their own call/revisions.Thomond Park wrote:F.I. seems to be the norm in all projects these days regardless of size]It is absolutely the norm and it would have been extraordinary if a request for further information had not issued in such a complex project. What I find depressing is the tabloidisation of the Irish Times: “Developers insist plans for Lansdowne still on target “ is a pejorative headline. The reality is that, if anything, the project is ahead of schedule – with a complex RFI responded to very rapidly. Yet the headline suggests the opposite – ‘yet another public infrastructure fiasco – despite what the developers say’. (But we in the IT know better). They don’t even know the basics of planning.
Bring back Douglas Gageby and Kevin Myers!
😡Some writers in the Irish Times are unashamed in their copy and pasting of press releases received via e-mail; I would hope that this is caused more by time pressures than someof the interpretation one occaisionally reads.
from the times:
Lansdowne stadium gets planning permission
Last updated: 31-07-06, 19:37The redevelopment of Lansdowne Road into a 50,000 all-seater stadium was given a further green light today after the project was granted planning permission by Dublin City Council.
Work on the €365 million project, funded by the IRFU, the FAI and the Government, is scheduled to start in January of next year with the stadium due to be completed within 27 months.
Welcoming today’s announcement, Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism John O’Donoghue said: “I see this as an important milestone in the realisation of this exciting project which is progressing very much on schedule.
“I join with the IRFU and FAI in looking forward to a bright future in a great new sports stadium. This is a good day for Irish sport. “
Earlier this year, Dublin City Council had requested further information on 43 points while an impasse between the IRFU and Wanderers, one of the tenant clubs at the venue, had cast doubt of the timetable of the redevelopment.
However, the Lansdowne Road Stadium Development Company have repeatedly stressed the project remains on schedule.
Rugby and soccer internationals will be hosted at Croke Park next year with France set to face Ireland in the Six Nations on Sunday, February 11th.
good news. residents will obviously appeal, anyone reckon abp will overturn, any precedents ?
a metro stop should be near by like they’re planning to do in croke park. if this is included in the plans there will be less appeals to go through.
Pauline Palmer, local resident:
“This development will take away from my skyline. Everyone here will be affected by this”
The only people who could be affected by this are the small number of houses on the Southern Side of Landsdowne Road east of the rail line given the height of both the exosting East and West Stands. If I were a resident on Landsdowne Road I would be delighted to see the demise of the back of the existing West stand and if I were in Havelock Square I would be reassured by the lengths the IRFU have taken to keep the height down at that point.
Hooray! This is great news that it got the go ahead. No doubt there will be many appeals. They shouldn’t heed them but go ahead and build the damn thing. Croker was built and rightly so too despite the objections from the locals who are mainly working class. In the this instance, a bunch of middle class objectors shouldn’t be given any preferential treatment. If anything the new Landowne redevelopment will add value to their property. Fuck ’em, the country needs the stadium.
The alternative is the Bertie Bowl
go figure
@Boyler wrote:
a metro stop should be near by like they’re planning to do in croke park. if this is included in the plans there will be less appeals to go through.
there is a metro stop there already .
@a boyle wrote:
there is a metro stop there already .
I though you two might be the same person….:D The for and against side of the arguement. Its happened here before!
I would be surprised if ABP stopped this. Its a major piece of cultural infrastructure and the precedent has already been set of a stadium in a residential area. Did DCC attach any notable conditions. I must look up the planning file.
Good news!
was watching the news(god bless rte.ie !!)
the bleeding heart story of some woman on o’connell gardens get almost two minutes of airtimeis it possible to ‘sink’ the stadium a little?
i noticed during the world cup (cant remember where) the stadium was huge inside but wasn’t too imposing from the outside shotsthink that was the stade de france paul … although could be wrong, kind of looks like it from the picture anyway …
@paul h wrote:
is it possible to ‘sink’ the stadium a little?
i noticed during the world cup (cant remember where) the stadium was huge inside but wasn’t too imposing from the outside shotsno it would be phenomenally expensive.
the berlin stadium is almost fully sunk in the ground as it is built in a natural hollow. (or at least hitler made a hollow appear) either way it is tremendously expensive first to move the earth and secondly the stadium can simply be pushed en mass 40/50 odd feet into the ground, it would have to be redesigned.
I think the residents need to be very carfull that they don’t get exactly what they wish for …
This stadium will be substantially quieter than the current one as the arching roof will bounce the noise straight up into the sky . As the roof is curved light will bounce off it into peoples gardens , reducing the over shadowing.
A different design that satisfied their height objections would most probably disapoint in other unforseen ways.
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