Il Consiglio comunale di Dublino è in trattativa per liberare l’attuale sede centrale e trasformarla in edilizia residenziale pubblica
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/dublin-city-council-in-talks-to-vacate-current-hq-and-turn-it-into-public-housing/a354623283.html
di RealDealMrSeal
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Not “turn it into” public housing, but knock the current buildings and replace them with new buildings.
After they paved over Viking Dublin to build the poxy thing!
Was worth destroying the Viking settlement site for that monstrosity after all so. Another blinder by DCC.
Surely this site if redeveloped should be turned into a civic asset for the city?
Razing the Viking city to build it in the first place was already a crime but replacing it again with nothing but some half arsed council flats would be just as big an insult
Oh f off, they should dig the Viking settlement up and make it a tourism initiative like they should have done originally.
Shur they’ve only just built the fucking thing!
If the development/redevelopment is done well it would be an excellent location to live. I’d love a chance to have a decent flat on the quays.
That’s a lot. The ‘bunkers’ built on Wood Quay site in front of Christ Church *and* the 1990s building on the quays built to kinda hide the ‘bunkers’ – both are too expensive to retrofit to modern environmental standards. So, they’re building new offices further into the southside where old DIT used to be (are they demolishing buildings first?) *and* they’re demolishing the existing buildings built on Wood Quay and then building loads of publicly funded flats there on in front of Christ Church. Given the recent and deep history of that site, I’m a bit nervous. Hope the plan is good and that it’s stuck to and that the plan B is equally good because there are a lot of moving parts.
What dismaying about this is the Camden site will be developed relatively quickly but the civic offices site will end up in probably a decade of archeology, which is a good thing, but then further decades of litigation over any proposals, probably won’t see housing on it in next 30 years / or ever really.
Odds are the council will build their new offices, and 50 years from now be looking to move again and the site will still be open 😢
That area already has enough public housing. Build housing for people who work in the city.
I’m sensing a Galweiganesque scandal around the corner
It’s a massive building. I wonder if the increase in WFH and computers has made it redundant as a council office structure.
Can someone eli5 why DCC has always been such a shitshow?
Can’t build houses.
No skyscrapers to spite 30 odd year altogether of massive economic growth.
Shit public transport (bus connects may be improving things but that’s the NTA).
City covered in blood, glass and piss.
Dublin has WASTED 30 ODD YEARS of opportunity to transform into a global landmark city like Singapore or Seoul. Laugh at the comparisons but we’ve lost our on a lot of additional growth due to refusing to expand capacity in basic fundamentals. No ambition to transform.
Is this an early April fools. That is a huge & prime site on the Quays & I am not in favour of a huge public housing development in the city centre, for a bunch of reasons. One is that there is open drug dealing all day at the corner of Wintavern St / Ushers Quay & a huge public housing development next door won’t reduce that. This could tip the city centre over the edge & its on the edge right now. DCC could have done a deal with (then) DIT years ago to acquire the Kevin St site at the best possible price. DIT would have been saved a lot of hassle, which went on for years. If the Kevin St development is in trouble, then, unless DCC buy the site for a steal this is a crazy waste of money. DCC never cease to amaze.
Everthing about this place has just been a disaster from the get go. I have vague memories of it being built and the furore that surrrounded it
Demolish it and turn it into a world class Viking visitor’s centre. Fucking idiots building that monstrosity in the first place.
Brainless proposal that will waste millions and turn Essex quay down to Merchants quay into one big ghetto