L’approvazione del progetto per un progetto di 399 appartamenti accanto al Royal Hospital Kilmainham è “illegale”, dice il giudice
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/10/15/planning-approval-for-399-apartment-scheme-beside-royal-hospital-kilmainham-unlawful-judge-says/
di norodaisy
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If the planning authorities can’t follow their own rules in making these decisions then it’s only right that they are called out on it.
>The judicial review challenge to the March 2022 fast-track permission was initiated in June 2022 by architect Paul Leech, who lives in an apartment block adjacent to the former hospital, and **former** Irish Times journalist Frank McDonald.
Some good news buried in there.
Bloody 17th century museums, part of the countries architectural heritage, getting in the way of building an eyesore!
It’s not as if there is a compromise – _like building something smaller, that fits the rules_ – the developer must drag this on in the courts for a decade, before selling the land for a profit as soon as final planning is granted.
Isn’t the issue that most of these “development plans” are a pile of shite? The council shouldn’t be restricting building up in dublin considering the massive housing issues. Do they get modified or are we stuck with something that was developed 4-5 years ago for the next 4 years?
Mr McDonald said in court documents he was “appalled” by the board’s “illogical and manifestly unreasonable” decision. He said the 56-metre tower confirmed his “worst fears” about the impact of 2018 urban building height guidelines, which enabled an “unprecedented free-for-all” that would see Dublin’s relatively low-rise skylines being “sacrificed on the altar of profit or hubris”.
We deserve the housing crisis.
I’m afraid of apartments
If it’s not lawful, it’s not lawful.
Someone else fucked up long before the McDonald got involved.
This is 399 homes that now won’t be built, and if they are built will be more expensive as the developer needs to recoup the cost of this planning.
This site is beside rail into Heuston. It’s beside the LUAS. It’ll be beside the DART underground. It has easy access to the M50. It’s exactly where we need to building lots of density.
This thing of historic buildings and skylines being a reason to reject planning for taller buildings need to stop, we wouldn’t be living in anything taller than a viking mudshack if the city was always constrained by this.