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The idea that developer Johnny Ronan’s high-rise apartment plan in Dublin’s docklands will address the housing crisis is ‘just simply fantasy.’
On
Newstalk Breakfast this morning, planning author Frank McDonald said the plans are “wildly uneconomical” and would be better suited to Dubai or Manhattan.
“Nothing like this have ever been proposed for Dublin before,” he said.
“The only structures in the city that would outrun it in height would be the Poolbeg stacks and they are not even buildings, they are just two chimneys that are redundant now.
“This kind of scale is simply unjustified.”
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Dublin residents reveal 23 years of living in shadows of ‘noise, dust and dirt’ as new developments encase their homes
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22 Feb 2021, 7:30
RESIDENTS of a small row of houses now stuck in the shadows of hulking tower blocks have told how their summers have been stolen from them.
The embattled people of Dublin’s Mayor Street have lived with 23 years of “noise, dust and dirt” as one new development after another encased their homes.
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The residents of Dublin s Mayor Street have revealed how their summers have been stolen by hulking tower blocksCredit: Paul Sharp - Commissioned by The Sun Dublin