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Pearce was the architect of Bellamont Forest and Annaglee is only attributed to Castle. Are they certain?
Cannot find any mention of it. The IAA book http://www.iarc.ie/vanishing.html on lost houses doesn’t mention either Dollymount or Kincora.
from the ‘Sue Denham’ column in “The Sunday Times”
How low can you go? Terenure eyes under-playground parking
Parking is at a premium in many Dublin subburbs, but has it really got to the stage where we need to build carparks under school playgrounds? That very idea, howeever is being considered by traders and residents in Terenure
The denizens of the south county suburb hired Anthony Reddy Associates to draw up a local area plan. Small shops are having a hard time because “traffic calming” and bus lanes make on street parking a near impossibility. So why not go underground? One idea was to burrow under a school playground at the back of St Joeseph’s Church and Boy’s pPrimary School.
Sue did a quick ring around. “The proposal would be unacceptable and unrealistic” said matt Hume, principal of the school. “I’m assuming it would mean shutting the school grounds for the best part of 18 months. the disruption couldn’t be tolerated.”
And how would the Catholic church, owners of the land react? The local monsignor has made it clear to his congregation that he felt he had not been consulted.
“It would appear that there was less than enthusiastic support for this”, Reddy conceded. “These are merely suggestions. If there is opposition, they don’t go ahead.”
Maybe Terenure willhave better luck with another idea – inducing the Sunday World to take its noisey operations elsewhere…..
But the Hawkins House redevelopment isnt that radical. They will maintain the carpark that blights Poolbeg and Hawkins Street instead of reinstating the streetline.
The standard Irish parish hall has no charm or architectural style to speak off, resembling nothing more than a large room with wooden boards and a stage at one end.
Dublin-O-Centric but
O’Connell Street sorted out
Abbey to Carlton Cinema site
A basic standard of shopfrontsNationwide
LITTER
Draw your own conclusions.
Appeal on wind farm withdrawn
By Gordon Deegan
A £10 million (€12.7 million) wind-farm development, led by a former chairman of the Limerick branch of An Taisce, is to go ahead after An Taisce’s head office withdrew its appeal against the development to An Bord Pleanála.Last August Limerick County Council granted planning permission to National Windpower Ltd to construct an eight-turbine wind-farm near the west Limerick town of Athea despite a strong recommendation to refuse planning from the council’s environment section.
A senior engineer in the section had recommended refusal, citing the negative impact the 250-foot turbines would have on the hen harrier, a protected bird under the EU Birds Directive. He said: “It is quite clear that there are a number of areas within the county which are not suitable for wind-farm developments. The Athea site appears to be one of them.”
An Taisce lodged an appeal in September against the development over the possible impact it could have on the hen harrier. The National Trust also pointed out that the conditions imposed by the council did not take into consideration the need to protect the habitat of the site or the need to protect birds from collision.
However, An Taisce has now withdrawn the appeal after negotiations with the managing director of National Windpower Ltd, Mr David Fitzgerald, allowing the development to proceed. Mr Fitzgerald is a founder member of the Limerick branch of An Taisce and resigned last month as its chairman. He remains a member of the branch committee.
An An Taisce spokesman said yesterday: “While the developer is an ex-chairman of An Taisce’s Limerick association, An Taisce’s professional officers dealt with this case exactly as they would with any developer’s proposal.” He said An Taisce had withdrawn its appeal in exchange for commitments agreed in a contract with Mr Fitzgerald, which the spokesman said were “in the best long-term interests of the environment”.
He said that along with “certain modifications to the proposal, the developer will address the principal problem of lack of hard scientific data to show the impact of wind turbines on protected species and habitats”.
This is good news.
Dublin Corporation has made a Compulsory Purchase Order for the former Carlton Cinema in Upper O’Connell Street, an adjoining site that has been derelict since the Pope’s visit to Ireland in 1979 and other properties in the vicinity. This long-threatened action is being taken following the failure of the Carlton Group to proceed with plans for a major shopping and entertainment centre for which planning permission was granted by An Bord Pleanála in August 1999. One of the most intriguing possibilities for this pivotal site is that the Abbey Theatre might relocate there.
