Westland Row
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Trinity College have applied for planning permission for a new sports centre on the long vacant site on the cnr of Westland Row and Pearse St. They also seem to be making a bit of an effort to clean up the delapidated Georgian buildings they use on Westland Row.
Also has anyone heard anymore about the DDDA plan for this area. I saw an exhibit on it on it in June but nada since. -
The situation is TCD is that they got planning permission for a gym, the plan was to have a plazza area at the Westland row, Pearse Street corner. The DDDA were always against this, they want a building there. Elan have now offered to give money towards the building programme in return for a long-term lease on a building on the corner, the new planning application is to allow that, it is hoped it will go through easily since the last one was approved and this one is more in line with the plans for the area: it restores the street line. One contensious issue is that TCD wants to retain the walkway, quite rightly the DDDA is against this since it removes people from the street. The other change to the planning application is that it is now intended to retain the brick part of the rail support. The DDDA report on the area is on the web. As for the Georgian buildings, about time. If only the college would restore the Pease Street houses to retail and residential use, nonewithstanding their plan to build behind them.
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