Sviluppo Dolphin’s Barn di 540 appartamenti in corso, 16 anni dopo la proposta

FINALLY!!! This has been in the pipeline for years, it’s an incredible location. This is how social housing should be done, replacing old developments with more individual homes and not a single one of them going for the current exorbitant market rents. If they’d done something like this with O’Devaney Gardens I genuinely believe the last election might not have been as dramatic as it was. This is the kind of intervention people have been demanding for most of the last decade.

I used to frequent Dolphin’s Barn a *lot* back in the day and St. Teresa’s was such an eerie, desolate feeling place. Some of it was already being decommissioned at the time (early 2010s) and what remained was half a ghost town, and unfortunately very much the kind of place that felt like it could have been used as a Love/Hate filming location. The new development looks genuinely well thought out and well built.

If they can get something similar off the ground at the old cigarette factory down the road, they could literally provide thousands of subsidised homes for an area which had been popular with students and young people before rents spiralled out of control and forced so many people out.

This should be a model for how we redevelop these sites. The eejits who say it can’t be done without some of the homes going for full market rates would do well to look at this development!

Blink and you miss it with these things