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@malec wrote:
Sorry but I can’t see at all how cork airport doesn’t need this new terminal. Last night when I came back from Geneva (through Amsterdam) there were 9 planes parked there, 3 in front of the current terminal and the rest beside the new one. When we got inside it was absolutely jam packed at the luggage reclaim with around 4 times more people than what’s supposed to be there. I know I’m not quoting any figures or anything but from my arrival yesterday this new terminal look like plain common sense.
Cork airport has been a joke for a decade. The new terminal building was badly needed. Shannon’s a hole and was only created for political reasons and despite getting every break going would be losing bucketloads of money if it wasn’t for the US troop landings. The fact that one of them is stopping next year has left it in the proverbial creek without a paddle. DAA can’t relinquish control of it because it’s incapable of standing on its own two feet.
@StephenC wrote:
. I imagine most of the delays with O’Connell Street were revenue related.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s true given that the council felt obliged to appoint a new IAP manager for the area after a couple of years. Presumably that was due to inability to get things done
@StephenC wrote:
There not weeds, thats algal bloom caused by enrichment of the water. Probably a lot to do with its shallowness though. I imaaine its quite stagnant. Good to see such a swift clean up…well done DDDA. As always in top form for maintaining their area.
If memory serves it’s being going on for years, the residents in the apartments (Custom House Quay?) have been complaining about smells from the dock since about a year after they were completed.
@Thomond Park wrote:
IFSC original 3 blocks yet to be surpassed.
Agreed. It’s amazing that in all the time since there’s been nothing else really worth writing home about – haven’t been in chq yet but that’s possibly sole exception. In reality the docks are blandness personified. I lived there for eight months a few years ago and that was enough for me. Admittedly there’s a few more things after opening since but it was really boring living there.
By the way Thomond Park, confirmation of what I said recently was provided in Gunne’s Bimonthly property commentary which was issued yesterday:
Meadows and Byrne, who recently acquired a new outlet at the Northern Cross complex on the Malahide Road, are expected to be the new anchor tenants for the CHQ development in Dublin docklands.Is C the church on the quays, next to Bank of Ireland (I think) with an office building in Smithfield behind it. Hutton put it into my head by mentioning the grid thing behind it.
@Thomond Park wrote:
However it has been evidenced in previous threads on this subject that many auctioneers are wilfully mis-selling ‘development potential’ when it is patently obvious that no planning would ever be forthcoming.
The government need to pass legislation to stamp out this practice and I think that regulations need to be passed making it manditory that a buyers planning history information pack should be attached to all land transactions under 5 acres setting out all previous planning applications within 1 kilometere over the past 5 years.
Very sensible suggestion, one for the new regulator perhaps
I think they took away the seating because that’s where the junkies used to sit and pick out tourists/students etc to mug back in the mid-90s.
@lexington wrote:
2. Abercrombie & Fitch
regarding the prospect of an expansion by highly popular US-based fashion chain Abercrombie & Fitch into Europe and possibly Ireland. .
From The Sunday Business Post in February of last year:
The US fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has held preliminary talks about opening a store in Ireland, The Sunday Business Post has learned. The retailer is planning a “substantial” expansion into Europe and retail sources said the prospect of opening here first would be attractive given the strength of the economy, robust retail sales and the similarities between the customer base here and in Britain.
Abercrombie & Fitch targets mid-market consumers, typically aged between 16 and 25 and is one of the best known brands in American fashion retailing. Any Irish store would not open until late 2006 at the earliest. “They’re a very desirable tenant and they know it,” said one Irish retail source.I couldn’t say it at the time but they have held talks about opening in Dundrum Town Centre but they were described as “difficult”. Will check in again to see if there’s any more news there. Just to let you know Lex, Guess? opened in McKillen’s scheme last week. Think it may be a franchise though.
@publicrealm wrote:
There was never any proposal to take any of the estate in charge – on the contrary it was explicutly stated that it would not be taken in charge. To add insult the Board actually required the Management company to maintain the ‘Public Park’ at its own expense (including installation of benches and lighting) and for the hours of public parks generally, “in perpetuity”.
The residents raised absolutely no issue about the creation of a publically funded park – I’m sure many would welcome it as a relief from their Management Company charges – but the council ruled this out.
I stand corrected. 😮 I had done some research on this previously and from memory there had been a proposal for it to be taken in charge and turned into a park. Must have been wrong. The residents were completely right to act that way so. I’d go so far as to say that ABP had some cheek
@markpb wrote:
It’s under the Clifton Court hotel and beside the new building, Aston/Ashton court.
It used to be Spi pub, was briefly “trendy” and was owned by Hugh O’Regan. He sold it on a good few years ago to a couple of guys who own a gay bar on the quays – don’t know the name of it – and it was then partly turned into a lap dancing club. Obviously that didnt work so they’re moving onto the next “craze”
@phil wrote:
http://www.riai.ie/gallery.html?type=regional&year=2004&item=1
I also found this whilst looking at the RIAI web-page and thought I might post it, despite being a little bit off the subject
http://www.riai.ie/gallery.html?type=regional&year=2006&item=13
Sorry for going off topic here but can I ask why there is blue and red used on certain walls in developments such as the first URL posted above. I have noticed an increasing trend of this and think it looks a little Lego like. Is it purely a “feature” thing in terms of making a colour statement or is there cost and other considerations such as materials involved. By the way I really like the second example you posted phil.
@publicrealm wrote:
it was measured as pert of the case against the Board’s decision to make the MSA residents fund a public park and access to the LUAS
To my mind there was never an issue of the residents funding the public park, but I’m open to correction on this, the “park” which is a green space which already exists was to be taken in charge by the local authority. A condition of planning that people be allowed walk through an estate that has been taken in charge to use public transport is not unreasonable, I submit. In fact it might well have been residents benefit to allow the estate be taken in charge – the management charges there are huge and I know one person who had to sell because she could no longer afford them. I have been around Mount St Annes on a number of occasions and had no idea how to get to the Luas any other way (last time I was in the area there the alternative route you mentioned was not signposted, I’d be interested to know if it is now) so I ended up walking to Ranelagh and getting the bus. V frustrating.
Was in Galway at the weekend, very disappointed. Copper’s already marked around the toilets. Just felt the whole thing was a let down.
@Thomond Park wrote:
Five months on and still no sign of an end use emerging does anyone know what is to become of this building?
Meadows and Byrne will be announced as an anchor in coming weeks. Ely has already opened apparently
@lexington wrote:
Edward Holdings’ ambitious Southbank scheme, which forms part of the broader Scotch Hall development along Drogheda’s revived south quays/Marsh Road area, is now set for a planning decision by Drogheda Borough Council on June 14th 2006. The proposal, designed by Douglas Wallace Architects, regular collaborators with Gerry Barrett’s progressive development firm, have submitted the 2nd round of significant further information which has seen various modifications to the project. Initially submitted as part of a wider residential, office and retail scheme – the tower element initially realised at 27-storeys and over 170 residential units. The scheme was modified subsequent of planning requests – the removal of various materials (such as copper graced elements on the lower 13-storey block elements etc) and reconfiguration of the taller tower (reduced in height and unit numbers to just over 100 apartments) were submitted to the authority – the redesign proved controversial and further information was again requested. Modifications have again been implemented – although the precise extent of changes is not known.
The 14th June 2006 will be a significant date in deciding Drogheda’s continued rejuvenation.
Any word on this??
@a boyle wrote:
harcourt building.
Agreed. My favourite building built in last few years. Hanover Quay, I think Beacon Court shopping centre could be interesting but that’s not built yet.
Dublin City Councillors are tonight considering whether to debate a section 183 motion regarding the Carlton cinema site.
From yesterday’s Sunday Business Post:By Neil Callanan
The Save No 16 Moore Street campaigners have asked the members of Dublin City Council to suspend standing orders at tomorrow night’s council meeting in order to debate the agreement drawn up between council management and developer Joe O’Reilly regarding the Millennium Mall site on O’Connell Street.
Dublin City Council has a legal agreement with O’Reilly that it will not implement the compulsory purchase order (CPO) on the Millennium Mall site if he purchases all of it and develops it in line with the O’Connell Street integrated area plan. If the proposal is allowed to be debated, councillors will use Section 183 of the Local Government Act 2001, which deals with any proposed disposal of land by a local authority, to debate the agreement.
The campaigners have already sent notices to councillors to comply with the legislative requirement that at the first meeting held “10 days after the day on which such notices are sent or delivered, the local authority may resolve that the disposal shall not be carried out or that it shall be carried out in accordance with terms specified in the resolution”.
The legislation states that if the council decides that land should not be sold then “the disposal shall not be carried out”.
The campaigners want the local authority to comply with its original plan to advertise the site for sale on the basis of an open tender. They also want 16 Moore Street to be turned into a museum. Architect Paul Clinton, who owns much of the site and is currently challenging the CPO, has drawn up plans that would see the existing building converted and the houses on either side providing exhibition and cafe facilities.
The campaigners are upset that O’Reilly’s submission on the future of the building said that commemorating the retreat and surrender of republican leaders could be thought “excessively morbid or ‘martyrological’.”
The campaigners’ move is hugely significant as at a briefing to councillors in May, management told them that the legal agreement with O’Reilly would not have any effect until adopted by the councillors under a 183 motion.
The Save No 16 Moore Street campaigners point out that in the county development plan it is an objective of the council to preserve the property as a commemorative centre marking the events of Easter 1916. They also point out that it is the policy of the council to seek the conversion of the building “into a museum which will be owned, run and administered by Dublin City Council”. The key point in that statement, the campaigners say, is that the building remain in the ownership of the city council rather than be sold on to O’Reilly.
Dublin City Council wants a substantial retail, commercial and residential development built on the Carlton cinema site in accordance with the city’s development plan.
