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What the future of community living could look like in Limerick City's Georgian neighbourhood

We spoke to Architect Rosie Webb at the CoHousing Here event in Dublin about alternative housing models.

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RESIDENT-LED HOUSING AND affordability is one of the many topics being discussed at the CoHousing Here event in Dublin this week.

We spoke to Rosie Webb, senior architect in economic development in Limerick City and County Council who is a guest speaker at the event, on how developers are thinking about alternative options for the future of housing.

She spoke about the development of a co-operative systems to help rejuvenate historic cities and town centres while still being affordable and energy efficient.  

We need to embrace again this idea living in more compact urban settlements so towns where you are connected to your neighbour and you have really a vested interest in working together.

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    Jun 15th 2019, 12:38 PM

    Great! Interesting project, I wonder who the market is aimed at? Is it suitable for families? Video was a bit too pithy imo
    How about moorings for live in house boats? and for Irish Waterways to change the wording on the new mooring laws so the Shannon will get more use, security for the canal walkers and, of course revenue to Irish Waterways and the local shops and businesses. The Shannon and canals are seriously underused compared to many waterways around Europe.
    Also, boat owners can produce solar and feed it to the local grid and vice versa!

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    Jun 15th 2019, 10:10 AM

    Not for every but it would have a place

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    Jun 15th 2019, 6:39 PM

    Other options on the table for inner city development could be to reach out to our European neighbours? http://www.housingeurope.eu/

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