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Found this on an auction site. Apparently,
Original architect’s watercolour drawings showing the elevations of the GPO building €80,000 – 100,000
seems to be in a square. Sackvile square?
I live in the area. It strikes me as amazing that all work is conducted only during working hours. I hope the govt. have learn’t from the experience. . . in that, all works like this should be 24 * 7.
The silence on the street on a Sunday morning is weird. all the jcbs at a standstill.
Sometimes I regret not taking the corpo job offered to me 10 years ago with the crap pay.
Put Bertie in a house on Henrietta Street . . . . . maybe number 10? . . and rail it off like downing street. .. . actually make that number 11 – just to prove a point 😉
you can download the full report from here.
It is a major loss for O’Connell Street and the North Inner City. The IFSC is a business district and is not integrated with the North Inner City the way O’Connell Street is. A financial services centre is not the place for a theatre. The docks at night is dead.
This is from the govt website.
http://www.dast.gov.ie/Pressroom/pr_detail.asp?ID=1143Abbey Theatre Redevelopment:
The Government has decided that the new Abbey Theatre will be located on the site provided by the Dublin Docklands Development Authority at Georges Dock. OPW have completed the necessary site investigations at the site and have advised that it would be a suitable location for the new National Theatre. With the approval of the Government, the Minister is now arranging to have all options for procuring the theatre as a PPP project, including the incorporation of a separate international design competition, progressed as quickly as possible with a view to enabling him to report back to Government by end-February 2006. Commenting today the Minister said:
Dublin Council votes to protect Rising HQ in Moore Street
07:47 Tuesday December 6th 2005
Dublin City Council has voted unanimously to protect the house used as the final headquarters of the leaders of the 1916 Rising.
Developers had wanted to demolish 16 Moore Street as part of a plan to transform the area into a huge shopping complex.The move sparked a campaign to save the building, which was built in 1763 and had fallen into serious disrepair.
Last night, Dublin councillors voted to add the building and three adjoining houses to the list of protected structures as recommended in a architects’ report.
The leaders of the 1916 Rising eventually surrendered from 16 Moore Street after being forced to flee the nearby GPO, which was on fire following several days of heavy bombardment.
looks like it was yesterday
I have a two storey over basement terraced house. and have recently been involved in a world of planning pain. In terms of planning “ground” vrs “basement” is irrelavant – in that – they don’t care if you bury the basement level – if it has an upstairs it is a two storey – end of story.
I think the reference to the 12 Metres Sq is regarding a different rule altogether. If you look at the Dublin City guide to Exempted Developments you’ll find that the 2nd storey may not be greater than 12 Sq Meters ( – that’s the figure you’ve mentioned). If it is greater than that sq foot – you must go for full planning permission, if it is smaller and the devleopment meets a few other criteria; you might not have to go for planning perm.
There is a contraflow cycle lane running from Sir John Rogersons quay to City Quay – along the south side of the Liffey in front of the new Sean O Casey bridge. I’ve been using it for maybe 2 years – it only occurred to me recently as a result of the direction of the “bicyle diagram”, that it is contraflow.
Its excellent and fast. I think that is because it is one of the only cycle lanes that isn’t half of a car lane.
Is the marked lane in the middle on both sides of the island in O’Connel street is where a cyclist is meant to be? there are often cyclists simultaneously cycling on both sides of the road. in front of both lanes of traffic.
Also when coming onto O’Connel street, how is the cyclist supposed to get into the middle of the road . .. . traversing traffic is treacherous.
I think there should be a contra flow cyclist lane from the Ambassador up to Waltons, there are always cyclists on the footpath outside the Gate. Maybe this might be part of the Parnell Sq rejuvenation?This is an article from the Indo, Aug 2005. It surprised me how short the sentence is for killing a cyclist.
Car thief gets five years for cyclist’s manslaughter
THE driver of a stolen car has been given a five-year jail sentence for the manslaughter of a cyclist during a high-speed stolen car escapade.
Derek Glennon (20), of Cooley Road, Drimnagh in Dublin, drove at up to 70mph in the wrong direction on one-way streets and at roundabouts around south-west Dublin, trying to escape from gardai. He pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to the unlawful killing of Neil King at Davitt Road on December 16, 2002.
“This is a tragedy for everyone concerned,” said Judge Bryan McMahon, who also disqualified Glennon from driving for nine years.
Detective Garda Ronan Rafferty told prosecuting counsel Luan O Braonain, BL, that he was on patrol in an unmarked car on Crumlin Road at about 12.55am when a Renault Megane car was seen crashing through a red light and doing a handbrake turn on to Windmill Road. Glennon, the driver, was startled to see the garda car come up to him, and took off at high speed down Crumlin Road with his two passengers. Det Gda Rafferty said he moved in the Naas Road direction in the belief Glennon was going there. But he was flagged down on Davitt Road by a pedestrian who was kneeling in the middle of the road beside Mr King’s body.
Mr King’s badly damaged bicycle was some distance away and he learned the dead man had been spun through the air when struck by Glennon’s car. He died later from brain injuries. Det Gda Rafferty said gardai went to a house on Cooley Road after getting information Glennon was living there. Glennon said he would have stopped if he had seen the victim and was sorry for what happened.
Nelson’s head finds new home
08 September 2005 15:35
The original head of Nelson’s Pillar has found a new home at the Dublin City Library.Admiral Nelson’s head is now on exhibition to the public free of charge along with papers and original archives on Nelson’s Pillar.
The head has been moved from Dublin Civic Museum, which is closed for refurbishment, to the Reading Room in Dublin City Library on Pearse Street.
Nelson’s Pillar was a famous landmark and meeting place for Dubliners before being blown up by republicans in 1966, on the 50th anniversary of the 1916 Rising.
Portland Street North, NCR. I think it has the highest incident of Georgian/1960’s improvements mutations in the city. It is a veritable wonderland of renovation. 😉
the plans for this site are
Full Development Description
I, Daniel Cassidy, intend to apply for permission for development consisting of the demolition of the existing wax museum building and construction of a 118 bedroom hotel development with ancillary accomodation consisting of seven stories of accomodation over basement service area/car park,new vehicular access way to basement service area/car park off Bethesda Place, reception, lounge, restaurant, bar, kitchen & ancillary facilities at ground level and bedroom and ancillary facilities at upper levels, at the wax museum site bounded by Dorset Street and Granby Row to the West & South and by Bethesda Place to the North located at Dorset Street & Granby Row, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
planning app 4215/04 . GRANTED. BUT IT LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE TOLD THEM ABOUT THE OLD BUILDING UNDERNEATH. – COZ OF THE FOLLOWING CONDITION.
CONDITION
1. There is a discrepancy between the conclusion of the conservation report submitted with the application and the report of the City Council’s Conservation Officer, dated 18/01/05, following the recent opening up works. In light of the third party objection to the demolition of the existing building, it is considered that the architectural and historic significance of the extant eighteenth-century fabric be fully assessed at this juncture. The applicant is asked to submit a revised Conservation Statement, which should be informed by the nature and extent of original fabric uncovered as a result of the opening up works viewed on the 13/01/05 as part of the submitted additional information request. It is noted that the applicant’s conservation consultant is asked to contact the area planner before the submission of this clarification to facilitate a joint detailed site inspection in conjunction with the City Conservation Officer.
