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@Morlan wrote:
So were stuck with the tattered old façade for another 5 years.
Only if they isolate removal of the existing city icon to replace it with another new similar building.
If the existing building were reclad attractively they could be on site within six months. There is nothing to preclude the owners increasing scale on the Eden Quay section of the site to a more appropriate scale.
Agree on the vertical cladding in common with subtle cladding designs has less impact.
@Rory W wrote:
Are Siptu just going to be very lazy then?
Digging the heels in is a fairly energy intensive activity.
Carbon Neutral is the way the business is going. A leading London fund has informed all its managers that all shopping centres in their portfolio are to be carbon neutral by 2010 are they will lose their instructions.
Shopping centres are probably the least energy efficient of any development class.
On Liberty Hall as inefficient as it is the carbon footprint of a replacement would be huge in the absense of green concrete being the industry norm.
As their nearest neighbour spends millions telling reuse, recycle.
This story has a long way to run.
That you would have knots of badly dressed smokers obstructing the footpath on saturday afternoons
Hardly life assurance territory
@Barry Hall wrote:
Does the Newspaper ad and site notice in the case of an appilcation in the Curtailiage of a National Monument have to make reference to this fact i.e. is a National Mouument deemed to be a Protected Structure – anyone know?
I am almost sure that they don’t but the definition curtilage is not really used with national monuments as they are protected under the National Monuments Acts as opposed to the planning acts.
With National monuments you have an exclusion zone development within the hatched(usually circular) line requires ministerial consent.
The problem often is that applications are made in a field between the road and the monument having a substantial impact but not breaching any rules.
If you are concerned that is a monument of regional importance talk to An Taisce.
pretty cool … monumental stand alone building that certainly will stand the test of time.
Any aerial plans / images ? can’t quite get my head around site position / layout etc.definitely agree with the logic of this but tallaght, clondalkin/liffey valley, blanch & the couple of hundred thousand people who live there aren’t going to dissappear.
Still not convinced about Metro West anyway, it certainly doesn’t deserve the priority over the interconnector which its getting.
The m50 is an obvious line to contain development within … so much space on the city side yet to be utilised.
No chance of the councils having the balls or will to do anything about it. Calls in to question the sub-division of the corporation in the first place. SDCC is gung ho for further development on its patch & Mansfield own’s every poxy green field site going.Higher planning authority to direct these calls so badly needed, fuck all chance of it being initiated though.
That is a very well thought out article some excellent quotes such as
The architectural, planning and economic establishments are broadly united in the view that the M50 should be the new Pale for the capital, meaning settlement should be intensified within that generous spatial envelope rather than be encouraged to locate outside it.
This needs to be accepted in the Dept of Transport
Building MetroWest outside theM50 will copperfasten Dublin’s physical character as a US style ‘‘edge city’’, with such a low density of population that a high-frequency, low-subsidy public transport system cannot be supported.
His order on the above quotes undermines to a small degree the logic of his article which is for me one of the best transport pieces in recent years.
I ask just one question, what happened to the Cherry Orchard scheme?
@Morlan wrote:
Voted for Galway, by far the best county. I hope nodoby has voted for the pale!
Born Galway found Dublin has all the best jobs, would live in Cork or Galway if they’d pay me enough.
I think people vote with their feet or whopping mortgages in reality. Can’t see anyone voting for the GDA commuter belt if given a choice.
Any images KB2?
Agree Chris and it looks like Galway is far from alone:
Parasite threat to Ireland’s water supply
Thursday, 26 April 2007 17:32
One fifth of the country’s drinking water supplies are at ‘high risk’ or ‘very high risk’ of contamination from Cryptosporidium.Figures obtained by the RTÉ Radio Investigative Unit show that in 2005 the bug, which has contaminated Galway’s water supply, threatened over a fifth of the country’s drinking water.
With the exception of the town of Ennis, Co Clare’s water is at least risk of contamination.
AdvertisementNeighbouring Galway, however, is exposed to the greatest risk of cryptosporidiosis and not just at the Terryland plant in Galway city, 19 other drinking water extraction points in the county were judged to be at ‘very high risk’.
Co Waterford and Co Cork scored very well. Individual water sources in Longford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Donegal, Leitrim, north Tipperary and Roscommon were found to be at very high risk.
In total, 75 drinking water extraction points around the country were assessed as being at high or very high risk of contamination from the potentially fatal bug.
The assessment, however, is not complete as 14 county or city councils would appear not to have conducted risk assessments.
Or in the case of the Minister for Environment’s own constituency of Wicklow, the risk assessment has been conducted but the figures were not passed on to the EPA.
Were figures from the remaining 41% of water supplies not assessed to be added, the real figure may be much higher than 20%.
From tomorrow the EPA has the power to compel local authorities to conduct these risk assessments.
There was much discussion about Kilkenny at the time as it has a City Charter dating back to Medieval times but came nowhere near the EU population thresholds. Fantastic place but would you really consider it a nineteenth century city even?
FF publishes environmental proposals
Wednesday, 25 April 2007 17:00
Fianna Fáil has launched its environment manifesto promising it will deliver drinking water that is fully compliant with EU standards and denying it cannot be trusted following the contamination problems in Galway.The party has rejected suggestions that greenhouse gas emissions should be reduced by 3% each year, but this stance has been criticised by the Opposition.
There were four ministers on hand to impress on the electorate that Fianna Fáil has coordinated environment policies to deliver sustainable economic development.
AdvertisementA promise was made to deliver public and group water supplies that are 100% compliant with drinking water standards.
The party says it is getting on top of the problems in Galway and Ennis and will also ensure that tougher fines and harsher sentences are imposed on those who flout the law and put the public at risk.
On waste, Fianna Fáil is promising only 10% of rubbish will end up in landfill, but given two incinerators are tied-up in the courts, this could be a hard one to deliver.
On climate change, the Minister for Environment, Dick Roche, said there was a green energy revolution around the corner but dismissed suggestions from a new coalition involving Concern and Trócaire that emissions should be reduced by 3% each year.
Opposition parties were scathing in their criticism of Fianna Fáil, its environmental record and the Minister, and said it will be up to the electorate to decide on who they believe.
Labour said the policy published today was a list of all the things Fianna Fáil has failed to do over the last ten years.
The Green Party believe the manifesto is nothing more than a shallow attempt to gloss over the party’s huge failings.
Fine Gael said the policies were more false promises from the least green Government in history.
We must be the only country in Europe where an ‘Environmental Policy’ opens with a denial on water quality but mind you with a Taioseach & ministers photographed with convicted illegal dumpers opening hotels in the sea…………….
We elected them
Think I have heard it all now. I once had someone tell me that Drumsna was the centre of the world but that an institution like monopoly would cheapen itself in this manner is beyond belief.
There would have been no harm doing localised games for Cork, Limerick or Galway but this; Donegal with Daniel’s Bungalow oh forgot he sold it or Kerry with Moriarty’s Sneem hotel oh forgot it sank.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Retention isn’t an issue as the choice that they have is to either apply to modify the permission by having the condition overturned or comply or just try and ignore it.
If they ignore it they are in breach of a planning condition which is more serious as they cannot claim ignorance of the obligation. The problem you face is that it is difficult to pursue as the permission probably still has a valid life and they can argue that they will get around to it until the permission life period expires.
Morlan any chance of doing a bit of your photoshop magic on the above?
Scandal-hit hotelier puts another politician in picture
From The Irish IndependentMonday, 23rd April, 2007
HE landed Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in hot water with his last photo opportunity.But controversial hotelier Louis Moriarty was back shaking hands with politicians in Kerry yesterday.
Mr Moriarty, who has appeared in court on charges of illegal dumping in Co Wicklow, caused a furore when he was photographed beside a beaming Bertie in hard hats during the construction of his new hotel last summer.
Now that the plush €20m Sneem Hotel is open, he managed to lure another high-ranking politician for a handshake in front of the camera lens. The tightlipped smile, more a grimace, on the face of Arts, Sports and Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue told it all. He was probably bracing himself for the flak that was flying his way.
Mr Moriarty has pleaded guilty to an offence related to illegal dumping at Whitestown, Co Wicklow, and is awaiting sentencing. It was the country’s biggest instance of illegal dumping.
His former business, Dublin Waste, was also ordered by the High Court to clean up hazardous waste at an illegal dump in Co Wicklow.
At the time of the photograph with the Taoiseach, Mr Moriarty was the subject of High Court enforcement proceedings by the EPA to have his waste operations, in Sheriff Street, shut down.
