TII acquisterà le case degli obiettori di Dartmouth Square poiché la sfida a MetroLink è stata abbandonata
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/12/23/tii-to-buy-dartmouth-square-objectors-houses-as-challenge-to-metrolink-is-dropped-2/
di TheChrisD
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>The residents of 12 houses in Dartmouth Square West in Dublin 6, last month initiated judicial review proceedings against An Coimisiún Pleanala’s decision to grant permission for the 18.8km, mostly underground, line.
>The houses at Dartmouth Square West back on to the Charlemont terminus of the line. The 19 residents living in the houses, and one company owned by a resident, sought an order quashing ACP’s grant of planning permission for the MetroLink. TII was a proposed notice party to the action.
>The houses on Dartmouth Square West are substantial protected structures and, while they do not often come to the market, houses sold in 2021 and 2022 fetched more than €2 million. A house on Dartmouth Square South sold for €1.35 million earlier this year but, according to the Property Price Register, this was below market value.
>It is not known how much TII has offered for the houses, and whether their offer includes a small number of homes on Dartmouth Square West not occupied by those who took the legal case.
That’s peanuts in the grand scheme of things
🥁
/popcorn
30 million to shut them up and get this moving is small money. When it’s complete they can go bank on the market when they’ll probably be worth even more!
🎶 We’re in the money 🎶
This is what’s wrong with our planning system. Greedy fucks holding the rest of us to ransom
Good on the locals, kudos to them considering the potential damage the works may cause to their properties
Ah so they just wanted money in the end, Wow I’m so surprised.
€2.5m each to the 12 homes there. The tax payer has just been casually robbed and it shows how flippantly tax payers money is being wasted
Grand, let’s get to it
That’s amazing. In another country a person holding a project hostage until gets paid would be called “mafia”.
Not as positive as the rest of ye about this. First signs of friendly deals for those in the club as far as I can tell, of which I fear there’ll be many for this as there are for a lot of projects in Ireland.
Just to be clear, Metro absolutely has to happen but it shouldn’t mean the country capitulates to any and all opposition.
Massive advertisement for the money you can make objecting to vital infrastructure. Brilliant.
Ironically the metro will increase the value of these houses
There’ll be no more Irelands Call at the next pandemic, I’ll tell the children
Turn the houses into a museum about the dangers of rugby.
What a fucking joke. I bet they’re getting above market value as well. The necessary legislation so these people can’t be told to go fuck themselves. They shouldn’t be getting paid off.
Now that the company has been extorted by a group of residents once, how long until the next group try it.
And I wonder, will the company pay out to working class people who object? Or just wealthy feckers.
It’s the obvious solution. But the objectors out, and TII will be able to sell them on the market when the work is done. Probably at a profit.
Crazy stuff but I think they’re possibly the most desirable houses in the city. If I could afford one (I very much cannot) I’d never be looking to move. What a weird disruption these people have taken into their lives
Thought it was Waterford Whispers
Griftmouth Square
€30 million isn’t the worst for 12 houses in Dartmouth Square and getting the metro project closer to starting.
What TII do with these is what I’m interested in. Maybe I’m a cynic but they’ll get slated if used for social housing (terrible value for money) but will also get slated if they are kept vacant in a housing crisis for too long (and the State moves slowly).
Worst case scenario is the metro still doesn’t get built and these fall into ruin and are sold for a song in a few years time especially if we have some sort of economic crisis.
good news for fans of modern society
So what will happen to the houses? I wonder if TII could use them to house construction workers during the project or something and then sell afterwards so they’re not just left empty