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@phil wrote:

There was a shell of a 1930s house on the Foxrock dual cariage way until quite recently. I went in and had a wander around it about 6 months ago or so. I had no camera with me, but I noticed that there was a planning application to knock it and build two town houses on the site instead. I am not sure if it is still there or not. Anyone seen it lately?

I think it was in The Irish Times property supplement all done up, not sure though. There seems to be plenty of little modernist houses around the country, just hidden away.

Cork does seem pretty devoid of public spaces looking at those aerial photos though.

There was an interesting aerial photo of the docks (grand canal basin) in the property section of the irish times a few weeks ago, its all coming along now, very large area, noticably low rise though.

He’s been drinking!

Less faffin, more pictures, i’m not seeing how it’s all coming along shannonside.
Limerick looks like a city, galway looks like a medium/small sized town drowning in suburbs, sorry, but thats how it is, regardless of wealth population yadda yadda.

@flysrmd11 wrote:

A point I’d appreciate some feedback on: What is it with everyone removing natural hedgerow (often with mature trees) and replacing it with ugly walls. Leaving the hedgerow, in most cases one would hardly notice the house therefore greatly reducing the eyesore factor. Your thoughts/

Oh everyone’s got to have a 6 ft wall these days, with turrets if possible, it shows how important you are.

Is that the westport – louisburgh road, shame on me for even slightly defending it, but it is a highly populated main road. Last time i ever defend something like that…. promise

I don’t those that are causing trouble and fights on the streets will really be interested in these establishments anyway, i don’t think mcdowell has the first idea what the real problems are.

@JPD wrote:

As usual more scare tactics, it might be a problem, there might be extra traffic, there might be a few that are not pleasing to the eye. Are there any reasons not to build in the country that can actually be proven?

They don’t attract development, it’s the towns with a population base that attract business etc and then all the countryside feeds off this, they contribute nothing.
Does that answer it simply enough??
You’re starting to annoy me, “all you D4 people” blah blah blah
@JPD wrote:

It seems that you city folks do not understand rural life, all that people want is a job, a family and a house. There is little demand for complicated facilities. I don’t get the constant attacks on water as ALL THESE HOUSES HAVE SEPTIC TANKS THAT ARE APPROVED BY THE COUNTY COUNCILS. I think it is just begrugery that some people have to pay less for a house than you do.

Sorry but i want alot more in life than a job and a house, don’t speak on my behalf as a “country person”, maybe you should check out what’s out there to be experienced.
@JPD wrote:

All you Dublin 4 types keep saying is they look ugly to your vision of the Countryside and that bins can be collected cheaper from the Streets of Dublin 4. As for roads have any of you left the main roads in some Counties? You could dissapear into some of the craters I have seen.

What’s making these craters????, trucks trundelling up and down the road constantly spreading debris and muck everywhere (there’s no point in wainting walls anymore) coming to and fro the newest disgusting tasteless mansion being thrown up by some yahoo with more money than taste!!!!,
overuse from every car in a 10 mile area driving into town where threre job is!!!
You can’t walk or cycle in some places now, i felt safer cycling around dublin city centre when i lived there, eejits tearing around country roads.
Don’t you realise the alternatives, even look to original settlement patterns, ringforts etc led on to clochans, not dispersed living, if designed properly rural living could be so much more pleasent if you could cluster houses tastefully, services could be provided cheaper and you would have all the benefits of having close neighbours while also having privacy if designed properly (ie not a housing estate and not 5 mansions with 1 acre lawns stapled together)
I think the answers are in improving the standards of housing developments in villages, steering away from housing estates towards more individual and intesting buildings with character, whatever happened to side streets and alleyways, and also encouraging new forms and models of clochans in the countryside, imaginatively designed to provide people with a great quality of life that doesn’t put stress on our resources and that could be added onto with new building. Maybe councils should look into this and team up with architects planners etc and develop modern models of living around older concepts.

Just checked on google there, by clochan i mean a traditional gathering of houses, farmhouses in the past, not a circular dry stone house.

Inefficient, Car dependent, low density – can’t be served by public transport, ugly, wasteful, not thought through! can’t keep going about things as we do……..