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A PLAN FOR a Dublin City Council “super depot” has been given the green light.
The €27 million plan will be built on the St Margaret’s Road in Ballymun in land owned by the council, but which fell inside the boundary of Fingal.
Yesterday morning, Fingal County Council notified DCC that it had granted permission for the plan.
It will house around 150 staff and have another 600 reporting to it. The council has said in the past that the consolidation of the lands would free up other depots for “more appropriate” uses.
The site will consist of a civic amenity site separate to the depot and accessible by the public, central stores for the council, workshops, a vehicle garage, a multi-storey car park, an office and a salt barn.
Concerns had been raised by a local Traveller group, who said that their horizon would be dominated by the structure.
However, Fingal has decided to approve the plan.
Councillor Noeleen Reilly says that the decision was to be welcomed.
“The additional workforce in the area should be a benefit to the local community and economy.
“In terms of existing sites and the land that will now become available the council need to prepare a plan for housing and other amenities in the future.”
However, Reilly said that the locals had to be consulted now that work is due to begin as works will affect them.
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Travellers giving out about a structure dominating the skyline, what about the crap they leave around the area for councils too clear, they don’t seem to mind that.
@Mick12:
I wonder would some compensation help alleviate the stress caused
What many people don’t know about Ballymun is the additional monies it gets for social schemes. Pretty much every new idea and scheme is trailed there. It means the area has a hugely dispoportional amount spent in the area and the education and employment levels barely move.
Many schemes are deemed a failure because they don’t work there when in fact it is actually the social problems ingrained that are the problem and encouragement and help won’t change anything.
Where did all the tools and equipment go lads?
@Sam Cairns: €27million to build – another 10 million for security – and another 5 million on equipment replacement…..
Meatballs from Ikea for lunch! Score!
The headline could have read…. ‘Traveller group to seek new horizons’.
@Paul Linehan: They will burn their tax clearance certs in protest!!!!
You couldn’t make this shit up!!!
Fingal Co Council gives Dublin City Council planning permission, how surprising is that?
While poor old Mr Traveller’s view of the horizon is ignored…..!!
What happened all the councils land that they promised to social and affordable accommodation?
NIMBY I guess?
@Gareth Cooney: NIMBY? You realise ballymun already has the new shortbuild housing as well as mix of council and private homes? Oh, you don’t….okay.
@Gareth Cooney: “Mr Traveller’s view of the horizon is ignored” – do you know that for a fact? Maybe they took it into consideration and decided it was an invalid objection.
@Gareth Cooney:
Well it is FCC that grants 100% of planning permission in Fingal so it isn’t that much of a surprise to most people,
@B9xiRspG: refer to !! at the end of my statement about the Mr Traveller.
@Dermot Quinn: The Mun is only a dumping ground for Fingal councillors and a small area of Fingal overall. You won’t find them building large Social developments beside where they live in Swords Malahide portmarnock or Howth.
@Nick Allen: You may not have noticed the sarcastic tone but it is no surprise that one council sails through with PP from the next door council. However if it was you or I who made the application, we would most likely be put through the hoops and maybe never receive planning.
@Gareth Cooney: which has nothing to with ballymun and your allegation NIMBY-ism.
Sounds good. Shame about the horizon view by a small group been effected. They wind turbines everywhere.
Do you ever get the feeling the media goes to great lengths to find a traveller connection to the story for maximum outrage value.
easier for them to priviatise
@steve white: It will never be built.
If DCC wanted to prevent certain people facilitating their offices in FISHAMBLE ST. Then they should have built beside BEWLEYS off the N32 ( next to DARNDALE ) that way they would’nt need an excuse to sit on there holes all day…!
@Michael Kelly: CAPSLOCK ALL THE THINGS
In 2016 dcc was 637 million in debt yet it’s sanctioning spending 27 million.
could they not have just used this land to build the housing on? instead of having to replace all the buildings? now they cant knock down the existing structures until the new ones are in place, delaying the delivery of housing units…
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