Dublin residents overturn permission for 299 housing units beside Clonkeen College
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/housing-planning/2024/09/01/dublin-residents-overturn-permission-for-299-housing-units-beside-clonkeen-college/
Posted by Character_Common8881
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What do we want?
**MORE HOUSES!**
Where do we want them?
**I OBJECT!**
Is it blocking the view of a locally treasured Magedeline Laundry chimney?
I hate so much about this country. It will never be fixed
Dickheads everywhere. Shame on you objecting cretins!
10 residents in Blackrock can stop 299 housing units. And majority of the population see nothing wrong with this.
Application submitted three years ago and now back to the drawing board while the country is tearing itself apart due to lack of housing.
This is not a serious country.
Our planning system is utterly dysfunctional
Nobody hates Irish people more than other Irish people.
That’s our planning system, it’s just and fair. Except for IPAS centers of course. You have to be far right to object to those
We need legislation to crush the NIMBYsm
I was expecting to rent at Clonkeen College by Urbeo lol
This is insane
xD
They would get planning quick enough if migrant housing was going in there.
Wow. V poor
What a joke
Does the article give the reason?
Look. This might sound extreme or silly, but we clearly don’t have the ability to build accommodation for people in Ireland.
I think we should investigate a third path. Have we properly considered placing all of these surplus people into an industrial blender, and incinerate the remains.
This solves the issue quite efficiently, and at this point it appears like the only remaining alternative. I’d suggest that we could simultaneously invest in our rail system, in order to provide transportation for these surplus people.
Thank you for your time.
The thing about planning objections is that every single individual objection could very well have a good point. But many of the people making the objections are not doing so in good faith.
I moved into a new build estate some years ago, and the residents began objecting to another development on adjacent land, which was in the county development plan same as our estate.
One of the grounds they successfully objected on was where the site entrance would need to go and that it would be an undue danger on a main road. So, a year later the developer is back with a new entrance that is off the main road but partially used a road in the estate, which had been in use until recently (while residents were in situ) to complete our estate… and more objections go in, this time claiming that the route would be a danger to people in the estate.
Literally no way to get onto the site. Lots of pearl clutching about kids getting run down.
Of course in the residents group chat, it was joking about the grounds on which they were objecting and wondering if they could get an enhanced playground put into the land if they successfully killed off the new houses. Anyone objecting to the objectors was ostracised.
tl;dr our planning system lets a lot of bad faith actors run riot.
People like green space.
Can’t wait to just immigrate from here tbh. Between the dogshit public transport and inability to get housing, my patience is running thin.
I’m well educated and have paid my fair due of tax here but if it’s not used in any other way than to pad the pockets of politicians, their friends, and God knows what else, then adios. I’m outta here.
People with enough money to already own property shouldn’t be allowed to dictate if more property is built or not. That’s why we have a housing crisis. Until that changes we’re all fucked.
Clearly few people here understand the context of this, Clonkeen College (an all boys public secondary school) one day received notice from their ERST informing them that the playing pitches that the school used for years and years would be sold in order to pay the debt of historic abuse fees. Efectively stealing pitches from current students to repay for noncing on others . This is an absolute victory in spite of the headline the IT are pushing
What a fucking joke
Between current home owners and the likes of SF blocking all project the housing crisis will never end