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Have you asked your local planning authority?
Request a Section 5 Declaration as you’re entitled to do under the 2000 Act. This requires them to tell you whether or not you need PP or if a certain development is Exempted Development.

Also, there might be a Change of Use aspect to this, depending on the previous use of the land, and CoU requires PP in many cases.

PS Doesn’t ([3.6*3.6] + [3.6*3.6] + [3.6*2]), or 9.2*3.6 = 33.12 sq.m., i.e. over the 25 sq.m. threshold?

Holy crab. I leave town for a week (no newspapers, no internet) and return to this? What’s been going on in my absence?

I voted ‘No’ on count 2, but it could have been any of 1, 2 or 3- the reasons have been outlined above by others. Just to add- wasn’t Barry Boland the scheming chancer in ‘Bachelors [sic] Walk’?

Monorail Monorail Monorail… indeed.

There are plenty of res over retail, office over retail and res over office, but all three is pretty rare. There are a couple on Dame Street near the Olympia but I’m having difficulty thinking of many others off the top of my head. I think it’s a legacy of a) somewhat inflexible building types (mainly single door houses or, at best, houses with two doors- one of which leads upstairs), b) few purpose-built mixed buildings, and c) the practice of zoning on plan, i.e. we’re not very good at zoning in section. And now, though we’ve improved a bit, when we say ‘mixed use’ it still seems to refer generally to areas rather than to individual buildings.

It’s probably the case with many European cities, but Barcelona is the one that immediately springs to mind. I was most impressed with the way that so many buildings there combine all three uses in the manner in which you describe: ground floor retail/restaurant/etc.; first floor retail/restaurant/offices (incl. surgeries); second floor and third floor- office or res; generally residential above that level. It gives a real vibrancy to the street and to the city in general, meaning there are very few dead areas after office hours, at least in the centre. And the res element is sufficiently elevated to be above the worst of the street noise. I suspect that many of these, though often 19th century, were specifically designed in this manner- self-contained stairwells being the most obvious and necessary feature.

The prevalence of single use buildings is something I’d dearly like to see change in Ireland, or maybe just in Dublin, as I’ve a feeling our regional towns and cities are a bit better. Perhaps our regional representatives could confirm or deny?

Shame the Living Over The Shop scheme was not the success that was envisaged too.

It has just occurred to me looking at the first of Graham’s pictures: will the red and yellow (or are they yellow and black?- hard to tell) headroom stripes and the red and white sign have to stay? Could compromise whatever colour scheme is chosen- unless it’s going to be red and yellow stripes.

Too late to add that one to the poll, Paul?:eek:

There was a question on University Challenge last Monday along the lines of ‘Known as “The stiletto in the ghetto”, “the [something]” and “the [something]”, a 120m Spire was erected in 2003 in what city?’

Only one person knew the answer and even then it sounded like a guess. Hardly good evidence of its international reputation.

(Sorry I can’t remember the other names- they were of the standard Dublin witticism variety.)

Would that be because the ad reached a part of the bridge other ads could not reach?

Has the footprint grown too, Devin? From the image here I thought it was just taller and therefore more slender, with an altered cap (no longer pyramidal). Both changes are improvements on the original, but still far from good in my book. Every time I see the twist I think it looks like someone took a standard extruded-floorplate tower and just used one of the beginner’s tools in CAD- ‘Ooh I wonder what the “twist” button would do to this…?’

Also, has anyone passed the new Dunnes homewares place on George’s St in Dublin lately? There’s a vase in the window that bears a striking resemblance to the U2 tower. Coincidence? Evidence of the lack of imagination in the tower?

A few pics from this afternoon (saturday). Though it looks like the pole is disappearing out of the top of the first pic, it actually stops right at that point- look closely. Reminds me- must get a haircut.

I love the idea of turning it into ‘an apartment’.:)
Dublin is poorly served by markets- I think there’s a good case to be made for making it the southside equivalent of the markets regeneration project taking place on the northside, something akin to Cork’s English Market rather than a high-end fancy goods type market.

Or a swimming pool? I suppose this idea comes from the pool in Manchester that was on that Griff Rhys Jones tv show.

Can we keep the tall buildings discussion to the Dublin Skyline thread? fergalr- in a nutshell, if you looked at that one you’d see that the issue isn’t simply Nimbys and the IGS opposed to height at all costs.

Based on the link posted by Paul, I wonder just how red the red carpet will be- it seems that the quantity of glass in the mix is limited by structural considerations, so just as in Newcastle, where the blueness of the ‘carpet’ was debated, we might end up with a pink carpet rather than a red one. Or perhaps a Mateus Rosé carpet? 😮